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State culture and development in Botswana and Zimbabwe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2002

Zibani Maundeni
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone.

Abstract

This article makes two major claims. The first is that independent Botswana was able to generate and sustain a type of developmental state because of the presence of an indigenous initiator state culture that was preserved by the Protectorate state and was inherited by the post-colonial state elites. The second is that the non-emergence of the developmental state in post-colonial Zimbabwe is explained by the presence of a non-initiator indigenous state culture which was preserved by the Rhodesian colonial state and was inherited by the post-colonial state elites. The article briefly reviews the literature, analyses the Tswana and Shona pre-colonial state cultures, and shows that these were preserved by the colonial states and inherited by the nationalist politicians.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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