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Title:

GUNS AND RAIN
GUERRILLAS AND SPIRIT MEDIUMS IN ZIMBABWE

By:

David Lan

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0852552017

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9780852552018

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Publisher:

JAMES CURREY

Pub. date:

1 October, 1985

Pages:

272

Description:

Lan shows that to understand the meaning that Zimbabwe's war of independence had for its people, the role of the spirit mediums must also be understood.

Synopsis:

Almost every anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century was led by an army of guerrillas, and no such struggle has succeeded without cooperation between the guerrillas and the local peasantry. This book examines what such 'cooperation' meant in the context of Zimbabwe's war of independence between 1966 and 1980 when hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support. But throughout the country scores of spirit mediums also gave active support to the resistance, and with their help the scale of the war expanded into an astonishing act of collaboration between ancestors and their descendants, the past and the present, the living and the dead. North America: University of California Press

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5 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white

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James Currey

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