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The graceless fall of Robert Mugabe : the end of a dictator's reign /

The ousting of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president took the world by surprise. In this book, veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota explains how and why the events of November 2017 happened as they did. The book describes the rifts within ZANU-PF as Mugabe sidelined anyone who might c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nyarota, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cape Town, South Africa : Penguin Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, > 1924-2019
Political leadership > Zimbabwe.
Power (Social sciences) > Africa.
Power (Social sciences) > Zimbabwe.
Presidents > Zimbabwe.
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Zimbabwe > Politics and government > 1980-
Zimbabwe > History > 1980-
Table of Contents:
  • The nomadic intellectual
  • Return of a heroic figure
  • Silencing divergent voices
  • From bread basket to basket case
  • From ''small house'' to First Lady - Origins of ZANU-PF factionalism
  • Mujuru's death : accident or assassination?
  • First Lady dreams of presidency
  • The rise and fall of the Crocodile
  • The night of the long knives
  • The long march that shaped history
  • The fall of an aged dictator.