Damming the Zambezi: Light and Power for Which Nation?

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Notes

¹ Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007 (Athens, Ohio University Press, 2013), p. 7.

² Ibid., pp. 8–9.

³ See, for only a few examples, Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London, Zed Books, 2001); W.M. Adams, Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995); E. Colson The Social Consequences of Resettlement, Kariba Studies IV (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1971); H.J. Hoag, ‘The Damming of Africa’, in J.W.N. Tempelhoff (ed.), African Water Histories: Transdisciplinary Discourses (Vanderbijlpark, North West University, 2005); D. Tsikata, Living in the Shadow of Large Dams: Long-Term Responses of Downstream and Lakeside Communities to Ghana’s Volta River Project (Leiden, Brill, 2006); J. Fontein, Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe (London, James Currey, 2015).

⁴ See, for example, Colson, The Social Consequences; T. Scudder, ‘Development-Induced Relocation and Refugee Studies: 37 Years of Change and Continuity among Zambia’s Gwembe Tonga’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 6, 2 (1993), pp. 123–52; D.M. Hughes, Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape and the Problem of Belonging (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

⁵ See, for example, T.O. Ranger, Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism 1957–67 (Woodbridge, James Currey, 2013); also Fontein, Remaking Mutirikwi.

⁶ Tischler, Light and Power, back cover.

⁷ See, for example, Fontein, Remaking Mutirikwi, Chapter 6, pp. 170–96.

⁸ Jan Vansina, ‘Memory and Oral Tradition’, in J.C. Miller (ed.), The African Past Speaks: Essays on Oral Tradition and History (Folkestone and Hamden, W.M. Dawson and Archon Books, 1980), p. 276.

⁹ W. Beinart, ‘African History and Environmental History’, African Affairs, 99, 395 (2000), p. 296.

¹⁰ Hughes, Whiteness in Zimbabwe.

¹¹ See, for example, ‘Potential Collapse of Kariba Dam Tests Disaster Preparedness in Zimbabwe’, Guardian, London, 13 April 2014; ‘One Of Africa’s Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart’, New Yorker, 2 February 2016; Mozambique 307 ‘“Urgent” Repairs to the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River Have Been Delayed for Two Years, but the World Bank Says There Is No Danger’, One World News, 16 January 2016, available at http://oneworld.org/2016/01/17/kariba-dam-repair-delayed-but-world-bank-says-no-danger/, retrieved 27 January 2017.

¹² See, for example, Fontein, Remaking Mutirikwi.