Army and Politics in Zimbabwe | Solomon Mujuru | Rex Nhongo

'Tendi deserves appreciation for offering us an account of Mujuru’s life that is well-researched, very detailed and even exciting to read. It skillfully uses a biography to shed light on crucial sequences in Zimbabwean history.'

Martin Welz - University of Hamburg

'Tendi’s highly readable and often riveting book on Nhongo contributes a great deal to our understanding of this big man and his influence on Zimbabwean liberation war and independence politics and history. It deserves a wide readership.'

Norma Kriger - Georgetown University

'This is an outstanding study that deserves to be widely read. More than just a life of Mujuru, it illuminates Zimbabwe's recent history like few other recent books and sets a standard of how to write about the personalities of post-Independence African politics that should be followed. The world deserves more African biographies of this calibre.'

Nicholas Westcott - Royal African Society

'Tendi’s General Solomon Mujuru is an energetic, believable, Zimbabwean freedom fighter, post-independence politician, and eventual antagonist of President Robert Mugabe’s despotism. Tendi’s enthralling biography encapsulates the entire modern political evolution of a desperate country where even heroes are in the end destroyed by their fearful rivals.'

Robert I. Rotberg - Harvard University

'This is the book everyone interested in Zimbabwean political history has been waiting for. Its biographical lens provides unique new insight into the ruling party and military. Moving from Mugabe’s rise to power in Mozambique, through the ceasefire, army integration and persecution of ZIPRA cadres in the early 1980s, to the bitter succession struggle of the 2000s, it reveals the workings of the deep state against Mugabe’s adversaries.'

JoAnn McGregor - University of Sussex

'This erudite, well-argued and elegantly presented book confirms Tendi’s position as one of the leading scholars in contemporary Zimbabwean and indeed Southern African historical and political studies. What is offered here is an academic masterpiece on the opaque life and legacy of General Solomon Mujuru, drawing from a meticulous combination of biography and oral history as both method and source.'

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni - University of South Africa