The Fear by Peter Godwin

Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

A compact, urgent political chronicle tracing Zimbabwe’s descent from liberation promise to authoritarian rule under Robert Mugabe, documenting how state-sponsored violence, land seizures, media repression and electoral manipulation created a pervasive climate of fear that crushed dissent, wrecked the economy and displaced millions; through reportage, eyewitness testimony and analysis it explains how personal histories, racial tensions and cynical power-grabs produced widespread human-rights abuses and long-term social and economic collapse.

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