Zimbabwe's educated exiles.(Decade overview)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Lloyd, Rebecca | Copyright information

Editor's Note: The names of all the students mentioned in the article have been changed to ones conveying the same ethnic background.

I lived in Zimbabwe from 1995 to 1997. At the time it was a country that functioned. It was not a real democracy: people were not free to oppose the government. When I spoke about Robert Mugabe with my friends they would always joke that the walls had ears. And once I met a journalist in a bar who had had a gun put to his head after he had ...

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