TY  - GEN
T1  - A predictable tragedy : Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe
A1  - Compagnon, Daniel
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn794700571
AB  - When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic tolerance was denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the heroic Mugabe become a hated autocrat, and why were so many outside of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for so long? In "A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe" Daniel Compagnon reveals that while the conditions and perceptions of Zimbabwe had changed, its leader had not. From the beginning of his political career, Mugabe was a cold tactician with no regard for human rights. Through eyewitness accounts and unflinching analysis, Compagnon describes how Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) built a one-party state under an ideological cloak of anti-imperialism. To maintain absolute authority, Mugabe undermined one-time ally Joshua Nkomo, terrorized dissenters, stoked the fires of tribalism, covered up the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, and siphoned off public money to his minions-all well before the late 1990s, when his attempts at radical land redistribution finally drew negative international attention. -- Book jacket.
OP  - 333
NO  - OldControl:muse9780812200041.
CN  - DT2996 .C66 2011
SN  - 9780812200041
SN  - 0812200047
SN  - 1283889978
SN  - 9781283889971
SN  - 9780812242676
SN  - 081224267X
KW  - Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, : 1924-2019.
KW  - Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, : 1924-
KW  - Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, : 1924-2019
KW  - Zimbabwe : Economic conditions : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : Social conditions : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : History : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : Politics and government : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : Conditions économiques : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : Conditions sociales : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : Histoire : 1980-
KW  - Zimbabwe : Politique et gouvernement : 1980-
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE.
KW  - General.
KW  - HISTORY : Africa : South : Republic of South Africa.
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Zimbabwe
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - Regions & Countries - Africa.
KW  - Since 1980
KW  - Geschichte 1980-2009.
KW  - History
ER  -