After Mugabe, Will Other African Countries Follow Suit?
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, untouchable for decades and a hero of African independence, is out. Who’s next?
In January 2016, Zimbabwe’s then-President Robert Mugabe gave a speech at the African Union in Ethiopia. As he railed against Westerners’ meddling in African affairs, the delegates repeatedly burst into delighted applause for the 91-year-old leader and laughed at his one-liners, as his audiences have for decades. “They are everywhere in Africa—if not physically, through [nongovernmental organizations], through spies, through pretenders who come to us and say they are here in Africa to assist us,” Mugabe said. “Africans shall no longer tolerate a position of
