Publisher Pioneer Head (Pvt) Ltd P.O. Box 2374, Salisbury A Division of Kingstons Ltd First published in Great Britain in 1981 by Sphere Books Ltd First Impression this edition. March 198I Published by arrangement with Sphere Books Ltd Copyright C David Smith, Colin Simpson. Ian Davies 1981 Category Biography Language English
THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH
For twenty years, Robert Mugabe has been typecast as an extremist: a colourless
Marxist-Leninist ideologue and a fanatical guerrilla leader. Now, in his fifties, with the
bitter experience of political imprisonment behind him, he represents the long
sought-after reconciliation of a nation – and a continent – that has been many years in the
making.
Mugabe was the last person the British, the Americans, and even the Russians, either
expected-or wanted – to be Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. His victory in that C’luntry’s first
democratic elections came as a surprise to, and terrified, his opponents. And yet Mugabe’s
moderation, pragmatism and apparent sympathy for his opponents, have utterly
mystified them.
Who is Mugabe? What influence will he have on Africa’s future? This biography presents an
in-depth profile of the man who is the most influential and articulate of Africa’s
statesmen, the black leader who holds the key to the future of Southern Africa.