zimbabwe coup
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Robert Mugabe, Former President of Zimbabwe, Dead at 95
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the former Zimbabwean president whose promising emergence eventually steered his country into economic collapse, has died at the age of 95. The Washington Post reports that Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s current president, announced Mugabe’s passing on Twitter: “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father…
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Call Me by My Name: Danai Gurira Writes About the Importance of Identity for Glamour Magazine
Fun fact: There was about a decade of my life where I didn’t like to be called by my given name. After an early childhood of correcting anyone who dared mispronounce it, I spent most of grammar school feeling burdened by a name seemingly so difficult, no one could be bothered to learn to say…
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Gives Robert Mugabe the Boot, but the 93-Year-Old Is ‘Holding On’ Like Jeffrey Osborne
Robert Mugabe appears to be doing like that Jeffrey Osborne song once again made famous by the New Edition biopic on BET—that is, “holding on”—despite the fact that members of his own party gave the 93-year-old president of Zimbabwe about a day to resign or be forced out. Members of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, a party…
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Thousands of Zimbabweans Take to the Streets, Telling Robert Mugabe and ‘Gucci Grace’ to Kick Rocks
When Bob Marley sang “I’n’I a-liberate Zimbabwe” in 1979, he was praising the efforts of freedom fighters like Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean revolutionary who was once jailed for fighting against colonial British rule. Some 30-plus years later, however, Mugabe, for all intents and purposes, has been ousted by his military—and the people—who took to the…
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College to Be Named After Gwen Ifill
Alma Mater Offers Rare Tribute to Black Journalist Zimbabwe Media Slow to Report on Takeover Forbes Picks a Diverse ’30 Under 30′ Media List Reporter Remembers Unpunished Killings of 1972 Black Gay Editor Suspended Over Racist Tweets Moore’s Bible Rhetoric Attracted Some Black Voters Lincoln U., Missouri HBCU, Tries Drone Journalism Students Report Housing Fight…
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Issa Coup but Not Really: How Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Happened to Find Himself Under ‘House Arrest’
In a surprise military takeover that is being described as not a coup, Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, has been confined to his home since the country’s military declared that it had taken over the country to target the “criminals” inside the Mugabe regime. Because this ongoing drama hasn’t been at the forefront of regular, white-people…