A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe

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When the southern African country of Rhodesia used to be reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic tolerance used to be denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the heroic Mugabe grow to be a hated autocrat, and why were such a lot of outdoor of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for see you later?

In A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe Daniel Compagnon reveals that at the same time as the conditions and perceptions of Zimbabwe had changed, its leader had not. From the beginning of his political career, Mugabe used to be a cold tactician and not using a regard for human rights. Through eyewitness accounts and unflinching analysis, Compagnon describes how Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) built a one-party state under an ideological cloak of antiimperialism. To take care of absolute authority, Mugabe undermined one-time ally Joshua Nkomo, terrorized dissenters, stoked the fires of tribalism, covered up the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, and siphoned off public money to his minions—all well before the late 1990s, when his attempts at radical land redistribution in the end drew negative international attention.

A Predictable Tragedy vividly captures the neopatrimonial and authoritarian nature of Mugabe’s rule that shattered Zimbabwe’s early promises of democracy and offers lessons critical to understanding Africa’s quandary and its prospects for the future.

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