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Links to resources about Zimbabwean history: precolonial, colonial, liberation war, post-independence.
Politics links are in Politics.
Links about Rhodesians are in Society: Ethnicity: Rhodesian.

Subcategories

• Archaeology
• Pre-Independence
• Wars and Conflicts

Resources in This Category

• BBC News - In Depth: Zimbabwe Elections

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/africa/2002/zimbabwe/default.stm
  News and analysis about the elections in Zimbabwe in 2002.

• BBC News - Special Report: Zimbabwe's History: Key Dates

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/12/98/zimbabwe/226542.stm
  At-a-glance timeline of Zimbabwe's recent history.

• BBC News - Zimbabwe Elections

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/africa/2002/zimbabwe/default.stm
  In-depth coverage of the 2002 elections in Zimbabwe.

• Flags of the World: Zimbabwe

  https://flagspot.net/flags/zw.html
  Provides information on the history, meaning and symbolism of the national flag and on other Zimbabwean flags.

• History of Zimbabwe

  http://www.bulawayo1872.com/history/zimhistory.htm
  Brief article presenting the history of the country from origins to its present condition.

• Mothers of the Revolution: Oral Testimony of Zimbabwean Women

  http://www.postcolonialweb.org/zimbabwe/miscauthors/mothers1.html
  Short novel based on Zimbabwean women's experiences of the liberation war. Structured into sixteen chapters, written by Irene Staunton, and adapted for the Postcolonial Web by David P. Lichtenstein.

• Rhodesia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rhodesia
  Article from Wikipedia on the unrecognized state that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.

• The Hunyani Disaster

  http://home.iprimus.com.au/rob_rickards/viscounts/hunyani.htm
  Account of the loss of the four-engine Viscount which took off from Kariba Airport on the 3rd of September, 1978.

• WWW-VL History - Zimbabwe

  http://vlib.iue.it/history/africa/zimbabwe.html
  Multilingual collection of web resources relating to the history of the country.

• Zimbabwe's Struggle for Liberation

  https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/21/zimbabwes-struggle-for-liberation/
  A very brief overview.

Related Categories

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• Home > Regional > Africa > Zimbabwe > Society and Culture > Issues > Land Reform
• Home > Regional > Africa > Zimbabwe > Society and Culture > Politics
• Home > Society > History > By Region > Africa > Rhodesia

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