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Decolonization and Development in Kenya and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

David F. Gordon
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In late February, readers of the New York Times read of a pragmatic Planning Minister in a newly independent African state issuing his country’s first development plan whose strategy was based upon building on the existing economic structures. That same day, readers of the Wall Street Journal read of a revolutionary new African state issuing its guidelines for the radical transformation of its economy toward a new socialist order. The casual reader might not even have of noticed that the two stories were commenting on the same by event: the announcement in Salisbury by Economic Planning Minister Bernard Chidzero of the newly independent Zimbabwean Government’s first development guidelines.

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African Issues , Volume 11 , Issue 3-4 , Fall/Winter 1981 , pp. 36 - 40
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1981 

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Notes

This article draws on a paper by Michael Bratton. titled “Development in Zimbabwe: Strategy and Tactics,” presented at the University of Michigan Conference on Zimbabwe. A revised version of that paper is to appear in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1981. Dr. Leonard Suransky also provided useful input into the final version of this article.

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7. Republic of Zimbabwe, ZIMCORD, Salisbury, Government Printer, 1981.