ZIMBABWE AT THE CROSSROADS

Jacob Wilson Chikuhwa

The theme of Zimbabwe at the Crossroads is on issues of governance and economic management. The story being told is how a prosperous country at independence in 1980 has virtually turned from a bread basket to a begging bowl.

An analysis set against a backdrop of growing poverty in a country with abundant human and natural resources, this book weaves together a cast of socio-economic factors that form the causes of the economic quagmire.

This academic exposé brings to the fore the desperate hope for democracy and economic recovery in Zimbabwe. International donor agencies and institutions specializing in African development studies will be delighted with Jacob Chikuhwa's latest installment whose driving force is the statistical analysis of events in the southern African country.

The author

After having been detained by the Rhodesian Front between 1964 and 1965, the author escaped into Zambia in 1966 from where he secured an Afro-Asian scholarship to study in the former Soviet Union. In 1972 upon completion of his studies, Chikuhwa moved to Sweden