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Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle For Zimbabwe
[Paperback - 2007]
martin meredith
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Publisher: Public Affairs Usa | ISBN: 9781586485580 | Pages: 259
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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 become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was forced to step down and Mugabe was elected president. Initially he promised reconciliation between white and blacks, encouraged Zimbabwe's economic and social development, and was admired throughout the world as one of the 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 sacrificing his purported ideals—and Zimbabwe's potential—to the goal of extending and cementing his autocratic leadership. Over time, Mugabe has become ever more dictatorial, and seemingly less and less interested in the welfare of his people, treating Zimbabwe's wealth and resources as spoils of war for his inner circle. In recent 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. It is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and an essential text for understanding today's Africa.

About the Author

Martin Meredith is a historian, journalist and biographer, and author of many acclaimed books on Africa.Meredith first worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa for theObserverandSunday Times, then as a research fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Residing near Oxford, he is now an independent commentator and author.Meredith’s writing has been described as authoritative and well-documented, despite the pessimism inherent in his subject matter.He is the author ofDiamonds, Gold and War,Mugabe: Power, Plunder– which sold over 15 000 copies in South Africa, andThe Struggle for Zimbabwe’s Future,The State of AfricaandNelson Mandela: A Biography, among many others.His most recent book isBorn in Africa, published by Jonathan Ball Publishers.

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