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THE FEAR: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe
Peter Godwin
Publisher: Picador (2010)
Hardback - 320 pages
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In mid-2008, after thirty years of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe, the eighty-four-year-old ruler of Zimbabwe, met his politburo. He had just lost an election. But instead of conceding power, he was persuaded to launch a brutal campaign of terror to cower his citizens. Journalist and author Peter Godwin was one of the few observers to slip into the country and bear witness to the terrifying period that Zimbabweans call, simply, the Fear. Following on from his compelling and moving memoirs, 'Mukiwa' and 'When a Crocodile Eats the Sun', this is a personal journey through the country Peter Godwin grew up in and knows so well a landscape and a people, grotesquely altered, laid waste by a raging despot.
