Chimurenga II/ Umvukela II: Introduction

Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo

 Introduction

• This topic seeks to evaluate early protest movements in Southern Rhodesia
• It enumerates the list of grievances that Africans had against colonial rule
• The social and economic lives of Africans under colonial rule
• It also discusses the pressures (social and economic) that precipitated the second Chimurenga
• Human rights issues before 1980
• It also seeks to evaluate the African nationalists activities and why the abandoned peaceful protests
• Discuss the events of the guerilla warfare and how it affected the African peasants and whites

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