Rex nhongo biography youtube

For many families it also meant the painful arduous search for answers, for those who never returned, many not yet answered, about the fate of those who are memorialised by the 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' at the National Heroes Acre. The book is an ambitious project that weaves the diverse and contradictory threads of a very complex, multi-layered and ever-changing political biography digging into the life of a character who played an immense role in the liberation of the country and the trajectory of the post-colonial state.

Popularly known by his Chimurenga nom de Guerre, Rex Nhongo, tracing his life from birth to the fateful night in which he was reported to have died in a mysterious fire. Very few believe the state narrative. Reading through the narrative one gets the enormous difficulty that the writer had to go through in deftly leaving some material out. After almost a decade of interest, research, analysis and writing, the author has placed the biography of General Solomon Mujuru on the shelf of other great army generals globally.

Rex nhongo biography youtube: popularly known as Rex

That is a brilliant scholarly feat. Written with material accessed from several sources, archives, oral interviews across the nation, into the region and globally, the author has managed to post onto the national landscape a tour de force standing out in the intellectual projects of the post-colony. Beyond this, there is a dearth of well researched political biographies that meticulously dig into the evolution of the liberation movements.

Firstly, the research and build of the narrative from extensive sources is an impressive 'instruction' to other intellectuals engaging in researching political biographies in Africa and world history. Secondly, in each chapter and narrative, the author does give an engaging context, situating the life of the general, in the mammoth movements of history.