Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant

by Heidi Holland

Book Overview

"The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader." - The Economist With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African conti?nent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fight?er and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president more than thirty years later, Heidi Holland's incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabe's gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143026186
• ISBN13: 9780143026181
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher