Description: Harare is at the epicentre of the economic meltdown and political crisis that has devastated Zimbabwe over the last decade and led to a mass exodus from the country. Those who remained in Zimbabwe's largest city and capital endured unprecedented hardship as the formal economy collapsed, unemployment soared and poverty deepened.
Brief description: Godfrey Tawodzera is the AFSUN Post-Doctoral Fellow in the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.