Robert Mugabe`s Zimbabwe (Hardcover)

Robert Mugabe, one of the world`s most infamous dictators, rose to power in Rhodesia, the southern African region now known as independent Zimbabwe. As a leader in Rhodesia`s nationalist resistance movement of the 1970s, Mugabe mobilized his compatriots in their struggle for control of the white-ruled African nation, which had declared independence from Great Britain in 1965. The bloody civil war finally ended with Zimbabwe`s independence in 1980. As the president of the newly free nation, Mugabe was a beacon for black African self-rule, raising hopes on the continent and around the world. However, through a series of ill-conceived economic programs and a disastrously mismanaged land-redistribution scheme, Mugabe and his corrupt government brought ruin to his homeland. Creating a harsh climate of fear, brutality, and zero tolerance for opposition, Mugabe`s rule drained a once prosperous nation of its economic and human resources. In Robert Mugabe`s Zimbabwe, learn more about the internal workings of one of the modern world`s most devastating dictatorships.

Author:

Wiener, Roberta

ISBN:

9780822572831

Format:

Hardcover

Pages:

160

Publish Date:

09/01/2007

Publisher:

Twenty-First Century Books

Language:

English

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