NORMA KRIGER.

NORMA KRIGER, Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres (hard secretes 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$65.00, ISBN 0 521 81823 0; paperback African edition, available in limited markets and nothing else 10.60 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 53770 3) 2003 293 pp

This is by way of far the best book still published on Zimbabwe's post-Independence politics. Kriger's case thought of war veterans illuminates a a great deal broader picture of state-society relations. The analytic starting point is the apparent contradiction between the

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