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Robert Mugabe Part 1: The Young Scholar

Real Dictators

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Mugabe's Life and Work

Mugabe is fascinated by some of the radical political ideas he first encountered in South Africa. He travels to Ghana, well into his thirties, that his political consciousness is really awakened. The country achieves independence from British rule thanks largely to its charismatic socialist leader Kwame Nkrumah. For Mugabe, it offers a possible future for radisha if the white minority can only be encouraged to give up power.

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