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Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe’s Future

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Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had transform an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. After all the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was once forced to step down and Mugabe was once elected president. To start with he promised reconciliation between white and blacks, encouraged Zimbabwe’s economic and social development, and was once admired all over the world as one of the crucial leaders of the emerging nations and as a model for a transition from colonial leadership. But as Martin Meredith shows in this history of Mugabe’s rule, Mugabe from the beginning was once sacrificing his purported ideals—and Zimbabwe’s potential—to the goal of extending and cementing his autocratic leadership. Through the years, Mugabe has transform ever more dictatorial, and seemingly less and not more interested in the welfare of his people, treating Zimbabwe’s wealth and resources as spoils of war for his inner circle. In latest years he has unleashed a reign of terror and corruption in his country. Like the Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Zimbabwe has been on a steady slide to disaster. Now for the first time the whole story is told in detail by an expert. This is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and an essential text for understanding today’s Africa.
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