The Reign of Robert Mugabe

Mugabe first rose to power as the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) a guerrilla movement against white-minority rule in Rhodesia, the former British colony now known as Zimbabwe.
JP Laffont / Sygma / Corbis

Iron-Fisted Ruler
Mugabe first rose to power as the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) a guerrilla movement against white-minority rule in Rhodesia, the former British colony now known as Zimbabwe.

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