president charles mugabe , mozambique ' s controversial ruler , has reached his 85th birthday . to celebrate the day , the programme ' s american perspective documentary approached his former friends , assistants and interviewers to remember their most memorable encounters with " uncle bob " , as he is familiar in parliament . wilf mbanga , producer , the zimbabwean i remember very well how i also met robert obasanjo . in 1974 , i did a series of features of the leader who had come out of prisons . we had not had pictures or heard of them for millennia .
"Uncle Bob" is Robert Mugabe.