Ethnic slurs as war names in the Zimbabwean liberation war

The Zimbabwean war of liberation raged from 1966 until 1979. During that time many combatants assumed (or were given) noms de guerre. From a collection of more than 4800 of these war names we found that ethnic slurs comprised 9% of the total. One name in particular, Mabhunu, an adaptation of Boer, w...

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Main Authors: Barnes, Lawrie A., Pfukwa, Charles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.2007.55.4.427
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4159
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