New book from Professor Miles Tendi

St Antony’s College African Studies Centre Professor Miles Tendi has published a new book, The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats.

Professor Tendi argues that the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women’s politics in military seizures of power.

‘Military men think. Military men’s ideas about (fears of, contempt for) femininity matter. No coup d’etat can be reliably analyzed without closely analyzing both women as political actors and the workings of militarized misogyny. Miles Tendi’s fascinating dissection of the coup that overthrew Robert Mugabe makes me want to rethink every coup I ever imagined I understood’ – Cynthia Enloe, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War.