Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant by Holland, Heidi. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780143025573.

"The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwes clever yet brutal leader." -The Economist With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African continent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwes president more than thirty years later, Heidi Hollands incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabes gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africas loyalty to one of its worst dictators.