ROBERT MUGABE, a Jacana pocket biography

214pp., illus., maps, paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2018

First published in USA in 2018.

Robert Mugabe was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017, when a coup led by some of his closest associates forced him to resign. He chaired the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017.

Sue Onslow is Deputy Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
Martin Plaut is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He was Africa Editor, BBC World Service News, until 2013. His other books include "The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa".