Dinner with Mugabe: The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant - Hardcover

Holland, Heidi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0143025570 ISBN 13: 9780143025573

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2008

Synopsis

This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psycho-biography of a man whose once-brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in a searching interview with Zimbabwe's president more than 30 years later. The author charts Mugabe's gradual self-destruction, and uncovers the complicity of some of the most respectable international players in the Zimbabwe tragedy. Probing the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators, Holland explores the contradictions that cloud the life of a man who had embodied the continent's promise.

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Review:

'By tracking down the key figures in Mugabe's life, Heidi Holland has come closer than anyone else to discovering what makes the old dictator tick' - David Blair, Daily Telegraph 'The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever but brutal leader' - Adam Roberts, The Economist

Book Description:

The untold story of the freedom fighter who became a tyrant.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143025570
• ISBN 13: 9780143025573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250