THE OVERTHROW OF ROBERT MUGABE: GENDER, COUPS, AND DIPLOMATS
AUTHOR – Blessing-Miles Tendi PUBLISHER – UJ Press
BLESSING-MILES TENDI
The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats argues the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The generality of coups cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women’s politics in military seizures of power. Tendi’s The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender Coups, and Diplomats AUTHOR § Blessing-Miles Tendi PUBLISHER § UJ Press book shows that gender and women’s politics pervade military coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and international responses to coups. Contrary to influential representations of Zimbabwe’s 2017 coup and other recent coups as markedly different from past coups, Tendi draws on long gendered histories of military coups in Africa to argue that there are significant continuities in coup characteristics The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, C 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbab Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cann understood without examining the crucial rol in military seizures of power. across time. Additionally, Tendi’s highly original study of Zimbabwe’s 2017 coup identifies the motives, dynamics, and triggers of the coup. Despite the existence of an international anti-coup norm and democracy promotion in Africa by Western states, Zimbabwean coup-makers’ direct intervention in politics was largely not Tendi’s book shows that gender and wo coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and in Contrary to influential representations of Z recent coups as markedly different from p gendered histories of military coups in Africa continuities in coup characteristics across t original study of Zimbabwe’s 2017 coup iden trigger of the coup. Despite the existence of and democracy promotion in Africa by We makers’ direct intervention in politics was la penalized by Western and African diplomat with diplomats and politicians involved in ex address this important puzzle. ISBN § 9780906785362 (Paperback) Price § R375 (Paperback) publicly condemned or penalised by Western and African diplomats. Tendi uses original interviews with diplomats and politicians involved in external responses to the coup, to address this important puzzle. ISBN – 9780906785362 (Paperback) Price – R375 (Paperback)
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