Now between two presidents, Zimbabweans dare to imagine ‘an easier life’
This time 37 years ago, the Moyo family had a lot to celebrate.
Their country, Zimbabwe, became independent that April, and to great international fanfare it inaugurated its first prime minister – a charming and bookish former freedom fighter named Robert Mugabe.
Then, barely four months later, the family rejoiced for a second time – at the birth of their daughter.
They named her Bekezela, an Ndebele word meaning patience.
In the course of her life, that has proven to be a virtue Ms. Moyo has often needed, as she lived through the transformation of the bright Zimbabwe of her childhood into something far dimmer.
She has called on that patience each time she handed
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