How does Robert Mugabe affect history?

Answer 1

Mugabe will be remembered for fighting white colonialism during the 1960s to the late 1970s, when he was imprisoned in Rhodesian jails for fighting for justice for the black majority. However, he will also be remembered for failing to transform a promising country into a successful democracy from 1980 onwards. History will put him in the same group with other notorious African dictators such as Mobutu Sese Seko and Hastings Kamuzu Banda, to name but a few. Mugabe will also affect history in terms of highligthing the challenges of many poor countries in a neoliberal global environment where most money is used for speculative purposes rather than for tangible infrastructural developments. The failure of IMF and World Bank SAPs is closely linked to the rise of desperate populist politics such as the chaotic land reforms, mines' nationalisation and the attempt to control foreign currency externalisation by most export oriented business operating in poor cxountries but with HQs in the developed world. Mugabe will also affect history by forcing intellectuals to re-examining the viability of the urbane democractic ethos in rural underdeveloped regions of the world where poverty, low literacy and poor communications make rigging of the ballot a lot easier for the ruling party that has access to state institutions such as the army, police, and the conservative traditional leadership institutions.