Elizabeth Mamukwa - Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising

Integral Green Zimbabwe

Integral Green Society and Economy Series

Series Editors:
Ronnie Lessem, Trans4m Center for Integral Development, Switzerland
Alexander Schieffer, Trans4m Center for Integral Development, Switzerland

This groundbreaking series introduces specific societies on their way to becoming integral and green. While there is a profusion of commendable books with green and integral credentials, they tend to be lacking in one or other of three major respects.

Firstly, they often focus on the ecological and technological aspects of green and are, hence, not fully integral. By integral, Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer mean not only nature and community, but also culture and spirituality, science and technology, politics and economics altogether forming an integral, systemic whole.

Secondly, the integral books that have appeared, often either American or European, tend to be culture-free. In other words, they assume that the ideas advanced could apply anywhere in the world, whereas Lessem and Schieffers Integral Worlds approach takes account of the particularity of each society, or region, whereby one complements the other.

Thirdly, the increasingly popular notion of integral is generally associated with the approach of Ken Wilber. While the editors acknowledge Wilbers outstanding work, their own integral orientation goes beyond it, drawing on integral interpretations and applications of the entire world south, east, north, west and center.

Building on these three premises, each volume of this series aspires to tease out the unique path of a country or region towards an Integral Green Society and Economy. Each volume is built around a locally anchored, collaborative research-to-innovation process that resulted in new integral green theory and practice. In this spirit, each society contributes its own integral green uniqueness to an integral green world-to-be.

The circular fourfold cover artwork for this book series has been designed by internationally renowned Slovenian artist and author Marko Pogacnik (www.markopogacnik.com). Pogacnik calls it a cosmogram. The design follows the basic fourfold scheme of the integral approach underlying this series. It shows an ethical matrix at the centre and the four elements of manifestation around it. The matrix is built upon a transforming process: black square within the white one and the white one within the black. It signifies that the transformation process needs to evolve around the focus point at the centre. The manifestation plane shows an association with jumping dolphins. The straight lines of their dorsal fins repeat the square pattern of the matrix. What is inside is brought outwardly in a playful (creative) way. Perfect symmetry is purposefully avoided not to suppress the vitality of the cosmogram and of course, the vitality that is required to bring forth Integral Green Societies and Economies.

An African Phoenix Rising

Edited by
ELIZABETH MAMUKWA
RONNIE LESSEM
and
ALEXANDER SCHIEFFER

First published 2014 by Gower Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Integral green Zimbabwe : an African phoenix rising / [edited] by Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer, Liz Mamukwa.

pages cm. -- (Integral green society and economy)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-3819-5 (hardback) 1. Sustainable development--Zimbabwe--Planning. 2. Economic development--Technological innovations--Zimbabwe. 3. Economic development--Social aspects--Zimbabwe. 4. Zimbabwe--Social policy. I. Lessem, Ronnie, editor of compilation. II. Schieffer, Alexander, editor of compilation. III. Mamukwa, Liz, editor of compilation.

HC910.Z9I577 2014

338.96891'07--dc23

2014016391

ISBN: 978-1-4724-3819-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978 1 3155 8894 0 (ebk)

This book is about an extraordinary journey towards an Integral Green Zimbabwe. Full of community spirit, it showcases how working together through a mode of integral research and development may lead to transformation and innovation. Guided by the principles of co-evolution, it results in novel ways of caring caring for oneself and each other, caring for Zimbabwe.

Helga Nowotny, Austria
Former President, European Research Council

The publication of Integral Green Zimbabwe An African Phoenix Rising is a truly remarkable achievement by its contributors and editors. Their collective objective of placing on record their diverse and enriching experiences for posterity is very commendable.

Any person who needs some invaluable background information on doing business in Zimbabwe should look no further than this rivetting publication. As a person who has had the humbling opportunity and privilege of leading a number of corporate, professional, educational, cultural, charitable and sporting organisations locally, regionally, continentally and internationally for over 30 years as well as serving as Mayor of Harare from 2008 to 2013, I highly commend Integral Green Zimbabwe An African Phoenix Rising to all those individuals who are not only passionate about the future of Zimbabwe but are also prepared to play their respective parts towards creating the Zimbabwe that we all want and so richly deserve.

Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda, Zimbabwe
Chairman, Commercial Arbitration Centre
Former Mayor, City of Harare

This is a very timely book coming as it does when our country faces so many challenges.

What I find compelling is the solutions centred development theme that runs through the book. Often foreign development models are foisted on countries and communities with suboptimal and dehumanizing consequences.

The uniqueness of the Integral Green Zimbabwe approach is that it embraces and involves the community gives them a voice and allows them to engage in the co-creation that has the potential through multiple country-wide eruptions of engagement and innovation to get the Zimbabwean phoenix rising again