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Mugabe’s 2008 Reelection Victory: Issues and Debate

Mugabe’s 2008 Reelection Victory: Issues and Debate © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156921010X491281 African and Asian Studies 9 (2010) 105-127 brill.nl/aas A F R I C A N A N D A S I A N S T U D I E S Mugabe’s 2008 Reelection Victory: Issues and Debate Napoleon Bamfo, Ph.D. Department of Political Science, Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698, USA Email: nbamfo@valdosta.edu Abstract Th e 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe and their attendant violence and disorder fi tted the image some governments and groups have had about that country as one whose politics has resisted change. Th ere was another side to the elections that observers failed to recognize, however, and it was about the important issues for which voters were seeking answers. As fl awed as the electoral process in Zimbabwe seemed, it was not diff erent from elec- tions which governments in other parts of Africa have organized. It was also perplexing that observers of Zimbabwe’s politics barely acknowledged that the equitable allotment of land between blacks and whites was at the core of the electoral debate. Th is study shows that elections in Zimbabwe are more nuanced than the graphic images of violence that television http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African and Asian Studies Brill

Mugabe’s 2008 Reelection Victory: Issues and Debate

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African and Asian Studies , Volume 9 (1-2): 23 – Jan 1, 2010
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156921010X491281 African and Asian Studies 9 (2010) 105-127 brill.nl/aas A F R I C A N A N D A S I A N S T U D I E S Mugabe’s 2008 Reelection Victory: Issues and Debate Napoleon Bamfo, Ph.D. Department of Political Science, Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698, USA Email: nbamfo@valdosta.edu Abstract Th e 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe and their attendant violence and disorder fi tted the image some governments and groups have had about that country as one whose politics has resisted change. Th ere was another side to the elections that observers failed to recognize, however, and it was about the important issues for which voters were seeking answers. As fl awed as the electoral process in Zimbabwe seemed, it was not diff erent from elec- tions which governments in other parts of Africa have organized. It was also perplexing that observers of Zimbabwe’s politics barely acknowledged that the equitable allotment of land between blacks and whites was at the core of the electoral debate. Th is study shows that elections in Zimbabwe are more nuanced than the graphic images of violence that television

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