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Dual Zimbabwe: Toward Averting Political Schizophrenia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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Some years ago, I had occasion to write about what I called “the multiple marginality of the Sudan.” I attempted to analyze different levels of Sudan’s intermediacy – between Arab Africa and Black Africa, between Islamized Africa and Christianized Africa, between Arabic-speaking Africa and English-speaking Africa, between the Africa of the desert and the Africa of the tropical bush. The continent’s largest country in square miles was condemned to multiple layers of marginality and blessed with the mediating opportunities of being herself intermediate.
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1. Ali A. Mazrui: “The Multiple Marginality of the Sudan,” paper presented at a conference on the theme “Sudan in Africa,” held at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1968. The paper has since been published in Fadl Hassan (editor) Sudan in Africa. The paper has also appeared as a chapter in Mazrui, Ali A., Violence and Thought, London, Longman, 1969 Google Scholar.
2. For a recent discussion of sub-ethnicity, consult Patel, Hasu H., “Power Sharing in Zimbabwe,” paper presented at the conference on “Ethnic Self-Determination and State Coherence: African Dilemmas,” Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, June 8-12, 1981 Google Scholar. For a report on Obote’s views on the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, consult Uganda Argus (Kampala), October 1962. As for the comparison between Rhodesia and Kenya, I am considerably indebted for stimulation to my many discussions with Dr. David F. Gordon when he was a colleague in the Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I am also grateful to Dr. Levi I. Izuakor, A Grand Illusion: European Settlement in Kenya, 1900-1963, a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment for The University of Michigan degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of History), 1981.
3. Needless to say, the author of this essay also belongs to the Westernized elite of post-colonial Africa. Consult Mazrui, , Political Values and Educated class in Africa, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1978 Google Scholar.