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Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe?
Richard Bourne
Publisher: Zed Books (London) 2011
Paperback: 320 pages
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No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. Acclaimed writer Richard Bourne shows how a country which, when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980, had every prospect of success, less than 30 years later became for its people a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens.
Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today, and the world's attitudes towards them.
The Author
Richard Bourne is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University and a former journalist. In 1998 he founded the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit and before that, in 1990, was the first Director of the non-governmental Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. He has written and edited ten books and numerous reports, including a biography of President Lula of Brazil (Zed, 2008) and a collection of essays in honour of the 80th birthday of Shridath Ramphal (Hansib, 2008 ). As a journalist he was education correspondent of The Guardian, and Deputy Editor of the London Evening Standard.
