Abstract
This chapter by the historians Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni compares Joshua Nkomo and Nelson Mandela as they belonged to the group of the first generation of African nationalists to fight anti-colonial struggles that eventually led to the black majority in Zimbabwe and South Africa, respectively. They posit that Nkomo and Mandela’s overriding quest for peace and unity presents interesting similarities of the ideas that they had for their countries and the conceptions of liberation they envisaged. While Nkomo did not ascend to power as president of Zimbabwe in 1980 as his party lost elections to a rival nationalist party, Mandela assumed power in 1994. However, their autobiographies, just like that of other postcolonial ‘fathers of the nation’, give us glimpses of the development of their political consciousness, the ideas of the Zimbabwe and South Africa they were fighting to create, and the conceptions of freedom or liberation that they envisaged, respectively.
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