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The authors tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in a searching interview with zimbabwes. The authors investigation begins with her having dinner with mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in in a searching interview with him more than 30 years later. The reader is involved in considering, with the facts presented, what kind of man robert mugabe really is but also which players through the course of zimbabwes history share some responsibility for the countrys descent into the abyss. Robert mugabes playboy son is mocked online daily mail. Heidi holland is author of dinner with mugabe and has been an author and journalist for over thirty years.
The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant by heidi holland isbn. Apr 27, 2011 based on research that lasted just over two years, dinner with mugabe. Dinner with mugabe and millions of other books are available for instant access. Heidi holland probing the mystery of africas loyalty to one of its worst dictators, holland explores the contraditctions that cloud the life of the man who had embodied a continents promise. The reader is involved with considering what kind of man robert mugabe really is but also which players through the course of zimbabwes history share some responsibility for the countrys dramatic descent. The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant, published by penguin in 2008, is as meticulous a book as only a writer of hollands caliber can churn out.
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