Flashpoints in Zimbabwe Elections: The Local and Regional Implications

Abstract

Elections’ in Zimbabwe are by and large a reflection of elections in Africa. The election history in Africa describes what the recent changeovers/continuity has been in Africa. The transition in African politics from the colonial to strong henchmen of the 1960s for the next three decades, saw Africa go through four phases of authoritarianism. Zimbabwe joins the growing trend of democratization from infantry having been a late independent state. Like other African states, getting independence without defining the ‘form state’.