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Robert Mugabe’s Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline

Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort.  He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away revolutionary gain.  He played multiple roles in international political consciousness.  As Zimbabwe’s strongman, he was demonised and lionised in equal measure for a good deal of his time in power.  His role from the 1990s – Mugabe, the West’s all-too-convenient bogeyman and hobgoblin – tended to outweigh other considerations.

Robert Mugabe: The national liberation hero who was demonized for trying to make liberation meaningful

September 6, 2019
By Stephen Gowans
It seemed almost inevitable six years ago that on the day Western newspapers were filled with encomia to the recently deceased South African national liberation hero, Nelson Mandela, that another southern African hero of national liberation, Robert Mugabe, would be vilified. “Nearly 90, Mugabe still driving Zimbabwe’s economy into the ground,” complained one Western newspaper.

Dear Hitler

Why does Hitler’s legacy in India greatly differs from that in the West. More removed from the traumas associated with World War II and the Holocaust   ……………………………………………………………………. ..An innocent question sometimes comes up with very troubling answer(s). J’admire ( I admire)… a simple exercise given to students to know from them whom they appreciate as … Continue reading Dear Hitler →