Mugabe's Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe

by David Moore

Book Overview

Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state for four decades? Did the suspected and nearly real 'coups', the conspiracies behind them, and their concurrent mythomaniacal conceits ultimately, ironically, spell his near-tragic end? Has Mugabe's particular mode of power reached a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787387712
• ISBN13: 9781787387713
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"