ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the overall problem of economic development and agricultural production within the entire African continent. It also addresses the recent hostilities in Matabeleland, or southern Zimbabwe, and the role of South Africa within this political crisis. The chapter focuses on a criticism of the US Left's approaches toward the problematic of African socialism. Like other African Marxists, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe is desperately attempting to improve the necessary environment for Western investment on a cooperative basis. Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) Vice-President Josiah Chinamano has quickly distanced himself from Nkomo, and has vowed to support Mugabe's "policy of unity, peace, and reconciliation". For Mugabe, the choices to be made between the interests of African labor versus the growing African bureaucracy must be predicated by Kwame Nkrumah's failure. The Mugabe government must immediately come to terms with the elements of ZAPU and the Ndebele leadership who disavow the dissidents.
