num_pages: 250
description: The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader. - The EconomistWith 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 continent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fighter 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.
language: English
title: Dinner With Mugabe: The Untold Story Of A Freedom Fighter Who Became A Tyrant
publisher: Penguin Global