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Robert Mugabe Part 1: The Young Scholar
As a young man, Mugabe led a revolution that returned Zimbabwe to African hands.
For almost four decades, Robert Mugabe held the reins of power in Zimbabwe with an iron grip. As a youthful idealist, he led a revolutionary movement that put his country back in African hands. But once in power, he presided over a regime of brutality and jaw-dropping corruption. So what events helped form Mugabe? And how did he manoeuvre himself from obscurity to power?
A Noiser production, written by Duncan Barrett.
This is Part 1 of 4.

