A Family Perspective on Sam Moyo’s Intellectual Development

Abstract

This article provides a family perspective on the formation of Sam’s ideas.^* As a family, we see Sam’s life and ideas as having developed within three distinct periods, namely, his growing up in Highfields under the Rhodesian colonial regime, then the several years he spent in West Africa, studying for his first degree and later teaching at university, and the last period when he went to Canada to do his post-graduate work. These were his formative years, before he returned to Zimbabwe to carry on a long career in research and teaching.