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‘An Era Where Racism is Religion’ - Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1984 By Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 345. $120.00, hardcover (IBSN: 9781316511794); $96.00, e-book (IBSN: 9781009053860).

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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1984 By Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 345. $120.00, hardcover (IBSN: 9781316511794); $96.00, e-book (IBSN: 9781009053860).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2023

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Southern AfricaZimbabwewarinternational relationsdecolonisationrace
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The Journal of African History , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 140 - 142
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1 The ‘long’ war in this instance refers to Scarnecchia's decision to eschew the usual historiographical bookend of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 and incorporate a further four years to discuss the brutal events of Gukurahundi.

2 These were Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana, and Angola. Nigeria also played a critical role as discussed below.

3 Indeed, the use of MiG jets in Angola were part of ZAPU's strategy to militarily end the war using conventional forces.

4 The British Military Advisory and Training Team.

5 Roberts, G., Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961-74 (Cambridge, 2021)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Freedman, L., Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (Oxford, 2000)Google Scholar.

6 For military events, for instance, see Tendi, M., The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker (Cambridge, 2020)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.