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The book’s conclusions provide a critical perspective showing how imported historical memories of racial superiority, jealousy, mistrust and suspicions undermined the construction of a national identity in Britain. It was this fragmentation of the Zimbabwean community identified in the concluding chapter which triggers the question: Does a Zimbabwean diaspora community exist in Britain?
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Zembe, C.R. (2018). Summary and Conclusions. In: Zimbabwean Communities in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89683-0_9
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