ABSTRACT
Several studies have considered the role of religion in the history of Zimbabwe. Considering the close relationship between Christianity and colonialism in the British colonisation of the country and the place of African Traditional Religion in people’s early resistance to colonialism, religion and politics were always close in the history of the country. This chapter describes an interesting element which is the one that has not received adequate and especially scholarly attention, and the use of biblical language with reference to Robert Mugabe. It begins with a fictitious composition that was entitled “The Book of Mugabe” in the week that Mugabe fell from power and considers the appropriation of biblical language in Mugabe’s last decade in office in Zimbabwe. The chapter outlines how biblical language was appropriated both for and against Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president from April 1980 to November 2017. It also considers the interaction of religion and politics in Mugabe’s rule.
