PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : DINNER WITH MUGABE THE UNTOLD STORY OF A FREEDOM FIGHTER WHO BECAME A TYRANT PB B – HEIDI HOLLAND

"This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland s tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in a searching interview with Zimbabwe s president more than 30 years later. The author charts Mugabe s gradual self-destruction, and uncovers some of the most respectable international players in the Zimbabwe tragedy. Probing the mystery of Africa s loyalty to one of its worst dictators, Holland explores the contradictions that cloud the life of the man who had embodied a continent s promise."