ABSTRACT
This chapter utilises critics and analytics grounded in anti-hegemonic critical scholarship that has since observed the relentless globalisation of neoliberalism and the dictatorial tenets inherent in this radical capitalist system. The term authoritarian neoliberalism is used to illustrate how centralised and coercive power is deployed by the global capitalist centres to generate capitalist transformation in peripheral nation-states. The chapter conscientises and challenges African academics to situate their scholarship and practice within Afrocentric epistemology and be sensitive to bodypolitics of knowledge. The current discourse on the Zimbabwe political economy is dominated on one side by the question of political instability that many think is wrought by corruption, nepotism, and general incompetency of the current government, giving rise to kleptocracy and patrimonialism and, on the other hand, sustained international interference as seen by the imposition of economic sanctions by the international community.
