Unpacking Complex Masculinities in the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Guerrilla Warfare
Journal: Historia
Year: 2025

Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) guerrilla warfare from the early 1960s to 1979 was fought by armed men at the front, while trained female cadres remained in the rear bases. Recruitment, training, deployment and battlefield experiences ran alongside orientation in the African home which was inclined towards male aggression and female submissiveness. Complex masculinities in this guerrilla army remain a grey area of study and influence how the former fighters look meanly at one another