Zimbabwe’s land occupations were unique in two ways.

An insider's view of the land issue and farm invasions in Zimbabwe, this book gives a different perspective than is normally heard, revealing much about the tensions within Zimbabwean society and between the war veterans and the ruling party.

Historical comparison, political behaviour of the peasantry, national liberation movements, Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe - peasant farmer social class formation under colonialism, effects of economic recession in the 1930s and 1946-1953, political developments, role of land tenure in civil war, ideology, rural area social conflicts, religion, land settlement. Bibliography, chronology, maps, photographs.

Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire tells the story of how successive administrations--Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford--tried to maintain the confidence of their NATO ally, Portugal, while facilitating the process of decolonization in Angola and Mozambique. Ultimately becoming an epic battle of democracy versus dictatorship, African nationalism versus geo-strategic pre-eminence, and East versus West, this book, largely based on primary sources, tells the story of one of the Cold War's most intense confrontations.