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Zimbabwe in Black and White

Just north of South Africa

Robert Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics for 25 years. But he didn't always. There was a time in Zimbabwe's past when a black strongman would have been unthinkable--because colonizing white men ran the show.

Zimbabwe's story begins with one such man: Cecil John Rhodes. If his name rings a bell, it's for two good reasons: he endowed the Rhodes Scholarships, and Rhodesia--now Zimbabwe--was named in his honor.

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