Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe

by Martin Meredith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158648558X
• ISBN13: 9781586485580
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"