Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant

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UPC:
9780141040790
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
12/21/2009
Author:
HEIDI HOLLAND
Language:
english
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The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader. -The Economist

With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African continent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president more than thirty years later, Heidi Holland's incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabe's gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators.