Posted to the web 27 October 2008 CHARLES MZINGELI is featured on the cover of a new book on the political history of Zimbabwe. This is as it should be. I have always been amazed at the absence of Mzingeli's name in many accounts of the struggle against colonialism. The book is The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe -- Harare and Highfield -- 1940-1964, by Timothy Scarnecchian, assistant professor of African history at Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. The cover features a picture of Mzingeli, in wide-brimmed hat, glasses, moustache, dark suit, white shirt and dark tie. The picture is almost as I remember him in the late 1950s, as a reporter on The African Daily News, widely quoted during and after Nathan Shamuyarira's tenure as editor. Scarnecchia's research includes a valuable peek at...
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