| Abstract | This article examines the impact of political violence, agricultural and economic degeneration on the idea of citizenship and the idea of individuals as citizens in Zimbabwe. As the nation counts down towards the 2005 parliamentary elections--25 years after a hard-won independence that promised peace, prosperity, and freedom--it might be time to reflect, not on the chronology of decline, but on its impact upon the idea of citizenship and the idea of individuals as citizens. There is a dual problematique here, the first part of which was expressed in political scientific literature comparatively recently, to do with the extent that communitarianism is embedded in humanity as a polis, and the extent of individual freedom founded on an agency answerable finally only to a natural law of universal justice.
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