Enocent Msindo (History, Rhodes U.) on his recent book Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Transformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990. He explores chiefly politics, class, language, and local sources to show the creation of ethnic identity in southwestern Zimbabwe was not solely the result of colonial rule or African elites. Ordinary Africans created and shaped an ethnic consciousness based on precolonial histories and 20th-century innovations, while much-neglected Kalanga identities resisted both colonial and Ndebele hegemony.
00:00:00 - 00:01:59Introduction
00:01:59 - 00:11:09Ethnicity in Zimbabwe
00:11:09 - 00:19:11Language, Ethnicity and Class
00:19:11 - 00:22:13Kalanga Biographies and Histories
00:22:14 - 00:26:56Ethnicity and Modern Ndebeleland
00:26:56 - 00:29:08Journey to History
00:29:09 - 00:32:50Colonial Information Policy
00:32:50 - 00:34:07Outro
Cite this Episode
Alegi, Peter, Peter Limb, and Enocent Msindo. "Ethnicity in Zimbabwe". Africa Past and Present, February 27, 2013. https://afripod.aodl.org/fullPodcast/episode=071/.
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