The fear Robert Mugabe and the martyrdom of Zimbabwe

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Main Author: Godwin, Peter, 1957-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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Review:In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home and tour the economically devastated and state-terrorized cities, farms, and diamond mines at considerable personal risk, gathering candid interviews with dispossessed farmers, marginalized elites, and former insiders to cast a light on the workings of Mugabe's dictatorship and psychology, and the "fear factor" crucial to his control.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:371 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780316051736
031605173X
Author Notes:Peter Godwin is the award-winning author of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun and Mukiwa . Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than 60 countries. Since moving to Manhattan, he has written for National Geographic , the New York Times Magazine , and Vanity Fair . He has taught at Princeton and Columbia and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2010.