Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyses the political rhetoric surrounding money in Zimbabwe, with a focus on the early 2000s and the era of hyperinflation. It argues that under President Robert Mugabe, the ruling party, ZANU-PF, consistently sought to anchor the value of the Zimdollar in the charged symbolism of racial autochthony, and ascribed drops in monetary value to the work of external forces and internal ‘sell-outs’. Despite some key changes, those efforts continue to resonate under the new administration of Emmerson Mnangagwa. The chapter traces this logic of economic indigeneity through several specific instances and demonstrates that conceptions of money and wealth have been central to ‘patriotic history’.
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