An analysis of the complex political dynamics that eventually brought the Rhodesian and Lebanese civil wars to an end, looking at competing elites, political agendas and the command of distant powers. BNS, 256pp, UK. I B TAURIS.

An analysis of women's experiences with ZANLA during the war of independence. Challenges official orthodoxy that a gender revolution occurred in this period and that a generation of liberated women emerged from the struggle. App, notes, bib, xxii, 168pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

New in paperback. A volume which studies the continuity between the present conflicts in Zimbabwe and past collusions between the state and guerrilla veterans and gives the historical background to events unfolding in the country. Index, refs, notes, app, map, xx, 315pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A study of the women participants of the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle, (1965 1980) providing an examination of the plethora of representations of women who joined the struggle. The author provides a space for women ex combatants to describe their experiences and contribute to a feminist understanding of Zimbabwean history and politics. Index, bib, notes, xxiii, 338pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

A detailed study of a particular part of Zimbabwe during the struggle for independence and the influence of spirit mediums, the religious leaders of the Shona, had on the recruitment of forces during the escalation of guerrilla warfare. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Index, bib, notes, maps, diags, 244pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

'Terence Ranger's major new exploration of Zimbabwean peasant politics spans the ninety years from the early colonial period to the 1980s. While drawing heavily on his own extensive research in the Makoni district of Manicaland - virtually a scholarly fief of his - Ranger continually illuminates Rhodesia's tortuous passage to majority rule by comparison with two contrasting models of decolonisation: Kenya (conservative) and Mozambique (la luta continua).' - David Caute in The London Review of Books. Maps, 400pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Historical source documents compiled by the Centre for Inter-Racial Studies at the University of Rhodesia. Index, 458pp, UK. REX COLLINGS.

Documents written by Nkrumah on the history and background to Rhodesian UDI, together with explanatory editorial comment. Chron. index, 203pp UK. PANAF BOOKS.

The largely rural focus of operations during the two chimurengas, and the contested claims over agricultural land rights, have tended to overshadow the social and political developments which occurred in the colonial towns and cities. This book illuminates both the variety and content of those developments: the spaces which were created for Africans in the urbanisation process; the contradictory responses of the colonial state; the effects of rural urban linkages on labour organisations; and the struggles over the mapping of the city along racial, class and gender lines. Notes, bib, vii, 179pp. ZIMBABWE, WEAVER PRESS.

Exploration of the political history of insurgency in Southern Rhodesia between 1961 and 1987, with particular reference to the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). Formed on December 17, 1961, ZAPU became the first revolutionary, national, movement to explicitly call for majority rule on the basis of a universal franchise. Index, apps, gloss, notes, tables, xi, 321pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.