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ISBN 10: 178831428X

ISBN 13: 9781788314282

Author: Steve Chan

On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of the country and forced him to step down as leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In this revised and updated edition of his classic biography, Stephen Chan seeks to explain and interpret Mugabe in his role as a key player in the politics of Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait of one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Mugabe’s character unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe’s story is Zimbabwe’s – from the post-independence hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral victory, the successful intervention in the international politics of Southern Africa and the resistance to South Africa’s policy of apartheid. But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption and disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Stephen Chan’s highly revealing biography, based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to political power. We follow the triumphant nationalist leader who reconciled all in the new multiracial Zimbabwe, degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self-righteousness and ultimately face an ignominious endgame at the hands of his own army.

Table of contents:

Part One : By Fair Means or Very Foul

1. As it Was in the Beginning

2. The Pursuit of New Wars

3. An Unlikely Champion Arises

Part Two: Brilliance and Opportunism’s Brief then Fading Moment

4. Human Rights, Personal Tragedy, and Drought

5. The End of War in Mozambique: Mugabe’s Roman Triumph

6. Amazing Grace and Decline

7. Interlude: Houses of Hunger – the Intellectual Debates of Zimbabwe

Part Three: The Old Man’s Ruthless Stand

8. Mugabe’s Path of Discomforts: One – Disease, War, the Constitution

9. Mugabe’s Path of Discomforts: Two – Land and Persecution

10. Mugabe’s Path of Discomforts: Three – Ghosts and Spectres

11. Elections 2002

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