Beyond the Crises: Zimbabwe's Prospects for Transformation

Zimbabwe, a Southern African country with a population of about 13.5 million people, has featured regularly in regional and international public conversations since the 1950s on settler colonialism, decolonisation, independence (the politics of reconciliation), contested land redistribution and severe economic collapse. The country is currently in the midst of an economic recovery process after more than 15 years of a debilitating crisis during which it went from being a case study of a semi-industrialised country to a state of economic collapse, a meltdown characterized by record runaway inflation and a serious shortage of basic goods.