What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.

1. Introduction: Mugabeism And Entanglements Of History, Politics And Power In The Making Of Zimbabwe; Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniPART I: MUGABEISM, ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND PAN-AFRICANISM 2. Robert Mugabe: An Intellectual Manqué and His Moments of Meaning; David B. Moore3. Mugabe on Land, Indigenization and Development; Alois S. Mlambo4. Mugabe ' 's Neo-Sultanist Rule: Beyond the Veil of Pan-Africanism; Gorden MoyoPART II: DIPLOMACY, SOLIDARITY AND POWER5. Intransigent Diplomat: Robert Mugabe and His Western Diplomacy; Timothy Scarnecchia6. Sheriff in the Club of Dictators? Robert Mugabe ' 's Role in the Politics of Southern Africa; Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Joseph Jakarasi7. In the Footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian Solidarity with Mugabe ' 's Populism: (Bogus) Anti-Imperialism in Practice; Henning Melber8. Robert Mugabe: The Will to Power and Crisis of the Paradigm of War; Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniPART III: MASCULINITY, GENDER AND CORRUPTION9. Mugabe the Man-Nation: Two Views of Culture and History in the Construction of Zimbabwe; Robert Muponde10. Grappling with Mugabe ' 's Masculinist Politics in Zimbabwe: A Gender Perspective; Rudo B. Gaidzanwa11. Corruption and the Comrades: Mugabe and the ' 'Fight ' ' Against Corruption in Zimbabwe; Wesley Mwatwara and Joseph MujerePART IV: GLOBAL COLONIALITY, RACISM AND MILITARISM12. Mugabe ' 's Land Reform and the Provocation of Global White Anti-Black Racism; Kenneth Tafira13. A Fanonian Reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as Colonial Subject; Tendayi Sithole14. African Leadership in the Age of Euro-North American-centric Modernity: A Decolonial Critique of Robert Mugabe; Morgan Ndlovu15. Mugabe and the Military Alliance: Zimbabwe ' 's Prospects of Democratic Transition; Kudzai Matereke and Niveen El Moghazy