From 2003, Samantha Power’s “How to kill a country: Turning a breadbasket into a basket case in 10 easy steps.”

The Morning News http://ift.tt/2kBPWNH

Mugabe is one of the last surviving members of a club of African big men—a club that included the likes of Mobutu Sese Seko, of Zaire, and Daniel Arap Moi, of Kenya. These men led necessary and bold opposition to colonial rule, but then grew addicted to power and its opulent trappings. They began to see themselves less as rulers of their lands than as owners.

↩︎ The Atlantic

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