Archival Significance
A landmark 1985 study of the role of religious specialists in Zimbabwe’s liberation war, published five years after independence and widely cited in the subsequent historiography of the conflict.
Institutional Context
Published domestically by Zimbabwe Publishing House, part of the expansion of Zimbabwean academic publishing in the years immediately following independence; also issued internationally by James Currey and the University of California Press.
Content Summary
Examines the relationships between ZANLA guerrillas and religious specialists in Dande, in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley, during the liberation war.
Research Utility
A core text for researchers of the liberation war’s social and religious dimensions, of guerrilla-civilian relations, and of Zimbabwean historiography of the 1980s.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house; frequently referenced within the wider historiography this Archive collects around.