Crisis in Zimbabwe - The Delusions of Robert Mugabe
When you look at the chaotic and unstable situation in Zimbabwe today, it is important to recall this was a country that in the early years of Mugabe's rule, was one of the most affluent nations in sub-Sahara Africa. Despite the fact that agriculture was thriving, with beef and tobacco generating billions to help boost the economy, Mugabe wasn't happy. He wasn't happy because the old socialist revolutionary in him grated at the post-colonial legacy that saw a white minority in possession of large amounts of land and responsible for economic progress. Some 4, 000 white farmers produced the goods and products that underwrote the prosperity, and on some level Mugabe saw this as lingering evidence that black Africa was still under the yoke of the old colonial oppressors. ...
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