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From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: April 3, 2008 | Copyright information

from hero to dictator

Robert Gabriel Mugabe once assured Zimbabwe's fleeing whites that "there is a place for you in the sun." Now his own place in the country he has ruled for 28 years is uncertain.

Mugabe was born in 1924, the son of a village carpenter in Zvimba, 40 miles west of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. He became a primary school teacher and taught at mission schools until he won a scholarship to all-black Fort Hare University in neighboring South Africa.

There he underwent a political baptism of sorts. He avidly studied Karl Marx. Gripped by the "passive ...

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