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A Predictable Tragedy - Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe (Paperback)
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A Predictable Tragedy - Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe (Paperback)
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When the southern African country of Rhodesia was 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
was denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner
Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the
heroic Mugabe become a hated autocrat, and why were so many outside
of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for so long? In A
Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe
Daniel Compagnon reveals that while the conditions and perceptions
of Zimbabwe had changed, its leader had not. From the beginning of
his political career, Mugabe was a cold tactician with no 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 maintain 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 finally 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 predicament and its prospects
for the future.
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