Introduction - PART I: COLONIAL IDEOLOGY & POST-INDEPE NDENCE CULTURE - The Natural World & the Popular Consc iousness in Southern Africa: The European Appropriation of Nature by J.M. MacKenzie - From Decadence to Authenticity and Beyond: Fantasies & Mythologies of War in Rhodesi a & Zimbabwe, 1965-1985 by P. Kaarsholm - Art in Zimba bwe: From Colonialism to Independence by S. Williams - Cl ture and the Tasks of Development in Africa: Lessons from the Kenyan Experience by K. Gecau - Marechera in Black &am p; White by D. Caute - PART II: NATIONALIST STRUGGLES, POP ULAR CULTURE & DEMOCRACY - The Peasantry in Zimbabwe: A Vehicle for Change by K.D. Manungo - Popular Struggles i n Zimbabwe's War of National Liberation by N. Kriger - Rel igion & Witchcraft in Everyday Life in Contemporary Zi mbabwe by T. Ranger - Continuity and Change in the Constit utional Development of Zimbabwe by W. Ncube & S. Nzomb e - PART III: THE CULTURE & POLITICSOF POPULAR PARTICI PATION - Structures of Meaning and Structures of Interest: Peasants & Planners in North-Western Zambia by K. Cre han - Local Cultures and Development in Zimbabwe: The Case of Matabeleland by L. Mhlaba - City Life and City Texts: Popular Knowledge & Articulation in the Slums of Nairo bi by B.F. Frederikesen - Basotho Miners, Oral History &am p; Workers' Strategies by J. Guy & M. Thabane