Archival Significance
An illustrated biography of Robert Mugabe published in 1981, the year after Zimbabwean independence, when Mugabe had just become the country’s first Prime Minister, making it a contemporaneous rather than retrospective account of his rise to power.
Institutional Context
First published in Great Britain by Sphere Books, with this Rhodesian and Zimbabwean edition issued the same year by Pioneer Head, a division of Kingstons Ltd, Salisbury.
Content Summary
Provides an illustrated account of Robert Mugabe’s political career up to and including his becoming Zimbabwe’s first Prime Minister.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of how Mugabe’s early leadership was presented to a general readership at the moment of independence, before the later decades of his rule that would substantially reshape his historical reputation.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.