Subversion, Resistance and Contestations: The Politics of Names and Naming in Zimbabwe

This volume is unique because it is the first full—volume book to gather various contributions on the politics of names and naming in Zimbabwe. The premise of the book is that names are historical archives; thus, the chapters gathered herein attempt a chronological survey of the politics of names and naming from the colonial period to the post—Mugabe era, popularly euphemised as the New Dispensation. This chronological study of names and naming was not meant to give a linear narrative of su...