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...
This biography of Robert Mugabe charts the life of this autocratic leader from his rise to power in 1980 when he promised reconciliation and unification to the country now called Zimbabwe, to 2003. Initially, Mugabe was admired thoughout the world as one of the leaders of the...