Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

T. O. Ranger

Indiana University Press, 1999 - Literary Collections - 305 pages

The Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe have been occupied by humanity for some 40,000 years. They are the home for a number of shrines, and have become a scene of symbolic, ideological, political and armed conflict between the Shona, Ndebele and Europeans for more than 100 years. Many questions in Matopos history are crucial to the history of Matabeleland as a whole, and some central to the history of Zimbabwe: the right relationship of men and women to the land; the nature of culture; the dynamics of ethnicity; the roots of dissidence and violence; and the historical bases of underdevelopment. North America: Indiana U Press; Zimbabwe: Baobab JOINT WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2001

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Seeing the Matopos: 11
• All photographs are reproduced with the permission of the National Archives of Zimbabwe unless otherwise stated: 33
• The Promises of Rhodes: 69
• Daniel Dube of Sofasihamba Photograph courtesy of Anna Dube: 90
• Cyrene Mission chapel after a firebomb during the period of nationalist sabotage: 193
• War Politics in the Matopos: 229
• Sitwanyana Ncube with senior wives and acolytes at Joshua Nkomos farm: 263

Bibliographic information

• Title: Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe
• Author: T. O. Ranger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0852556047, 9780852556047
• Length: 305 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / African; Literary Criticism / General