Nationalism, as a mobilising ideology, has had a powerful presence in Zimbabwean history, as it has on a global level. This article is an attempt to trace the historiography of nationalism in Zimbabwe from the 1960s to the present. It argues that since the celebrated nationalist inspired texts of the 1960s, there has been an increasing attempt to unpackage the ideology and practice of nationalism and nationalist politics, fracturing our view of the latter through a more careful analysis of class, gender, ethnicity and changing rural-urban relations, as well as periodising the presence of nationalism in Zimbabwean history. The result is that we now have a more complex picture of nationalism, reflecting both its continued resonance and its uneven and differential presence. This has opened up the possibility for less ahistorical, essentialist notions of the subject
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