{"id":977,"date":"2010-07-01T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:30:16","slug":"how-intellectuals-made-history-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/how-intellectuals-made-history-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"How intellectuals made history in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/How-intellectuals-made-history-in-zimbabwe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-978\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Blessing-Miles Tendi, corruption, history, intelligentsia, Politics, public intellectuals, Robert Mugabe, ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Cover-How-intellectuals-made-history-in-Zimbabwe-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blessing-Miles Tendi, corruption, history, intelligentsia, Politics, public intellectuals, Robert Mugabe, ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Cover-How-intellectuals-made-history-in-Zimbabwe-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Cover-How-intellectuals-made-history-in-Zimbabwe.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The history of Zimbabwe has been revised in the service of the governing ZANU-PF party. A \u2018patriotic\u2019 version of history, disseminated by public intellectuals and state media, has distorted legitimate grievances. Critics of patriotic history, including opposition politicians, underestimated or misunderstood its appeal. Corruption of the intelligentsia will prolong an ongoing crisis in political and intellectual values.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/How-intellectuals-made-history-in-zimbabwe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1278\" title=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pdf_download_ari.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the podcast of &#8220;How intellectuals made history in Zimbabwe&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[display_podcast]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of Zimbabwe has been revised in the service of the governing ZANU-PF party. A \u2018patriotic\u2019 version of history, disseminated by public intellectuals and state media, has distorted legitimate grievances. Critics of patriotic history, including opposition politicians, underestimated or misunderstood its appeal. Corruption of the intelligentsia will prolong an ongoing crisis in political and intellectual values. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Listen to the podcast of &#8220;How intellectuals made history in Zimbabwe&#8221; [display_podcast]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[184,181,182,183,32,27,118,180,117,115],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counterpoints","tag-blessing-miles-tendi","tag-corruption","tag-history","tag-intelligentsia","tag-media-in-publications","tag-politics-in-publications","tag-public-intellectuals","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zimbabwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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