Three weeks after his death in Singapore, Robert Mugabe was finally laid to rest at a private ceremony in his rural village of Kutama, not the Heroes Acre in Harare as was expected. This is despite the government constructing a mausoleum in his honor.
In 1978 Robert Mugabe was heckled by writer and iconoclast Dambudzo Marechera when he came to London to address a group of young black Zimbabwean exiles at the Africa Centre. The drive for independence was intensifying. But Marechera could see through the deceptive characters that were at the brink of leading Zimbabwe. Most of them were his contemporaries and former classmates. Marechera’s no holds barred book, Mindblast, published in 1984 provides a searing review of the early years of Mugabe’s presidency. He writes:
If Dambudzo Marechera had not existed, Zimbabwe would have invented him.
Zimbabweans have not forgotten when their hyper-inflationary economy turned them into wretched millionaires. It has only been a decade, from a period during which the country’s central bank issued notes that lost value almost as soon as they were printed.
This is no April fool’s joke.
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who last year became the world’s oldest head of state, recently celebrated turning 92 with an estimated $1 million dollar bash, broadcast live on local television.
In 2000 Robert Mugabe shocked the world when he made dramatic changes to land ownership laws in Zimbabwe which resulted in thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers being forced to give up their farms and many to leave the country.
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe defies his age. At 91, he is one of the world’s oldest leaders, yet he maintains a punishing schedule–particularly for travel.
Kenya set in motion the construction of Africa’s biggest wind power farm this week, near Laisamis, 550km north of Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
The Rwandan general, Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, arrested on Saturday in the UK over alleged war crimes was granted conditional bail on Thursday, pending a full hearing for his extradition to Spain.
African vultures,the silent victims of wildlife poaching, are now nearing extinction in some regions, according to new research by members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) vulture specialist group.
I was the envy of friends and peers when I left for America. The promised land. Living under a brutal tyrant in a country where freedoms are few, many young Zimbabweans are desperate to leave and discover from the world everything denied them.
Three different Nigerian-born track champions are the fastest men for Africa, Asia and Europe.
The illegal wildlife trade has become the world’s fourth-largest form of transnational organized crime. And African elephant ivory is a major part of the estimated $3 billion trade, according to new research published in the journal Science.
When I was growing up in Zimbabwe there was something romantic reading about billionaires such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffet in old copies of Forbes we passed amongst each other in Harare’s townships. Little did we know fate was going to conspire to make us more than that.
