Tag Robert Mugabe

Gono’s cows

Mugabe’s 89th birthday in 2013 occasioned a predictable round of excesses, including these: Supporters of the President used the birthday celebration, broadcast live on national television, to shower him with gifts and praises. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono…

Doctor Robert is back

I was barely in my teens when Robert Mugabe arrived in Moscow, then capital of the Soviet Union, and the Moscow University made him a doctor honoris causa. It must have been 1984… no, 1985. At about the same time,…