3. “ Your Shona Is Better Than Mine!”: Pseudo Gangs, Blacking Up, and the Pleasures of Counterinsurgency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Place-Names, Currency, and Acronyms xi
5. 1. Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle and Rhodesia’s Bush War: Locating Its History 1
6. 2. “Blood and Ink”: Memoirs, Authors, Histories 31
7. 3. “ Your Shona Is Better Than Mine!”: Pseudo Gangs, Blacking Up, and the Pleasures of Counterinsurgency 59
8. 4. “Each Footprint Tells a Story”: Tracking and Poaching in the Rhodesian Army 83
9. 5. “There Is No Copyright on Facts”: Ron Reid-Daly, Authorship, and the Transkei Defence Force 109
10. 6. “Every Self-Respecting Terrorist Has an ak-47”: Guerrilla Weapons and Rhodesian Imaginations 121
11. 7. “ A Plastic Bag full of Cholera”: Rhodesia and Chemical and Biological Weapons 141
12. 8. “Will Travel Worldwide. You Pay Expenses”: Foreign Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army 167
13. 9. “ What Interests Do You Have?”: Security Force Auxiliaries and the Limits of Counterinsurgency 197
14. Conclusions 222
15. Notes 227
16. Bibliography 261
17. Index 281