The election season is in full swing in Zimbabwe. This is the second election in the post-Robert Mugabe era.
Politicians are criss-crossing the length and breadth of Zimbabwe canvassing for votes in mass rallies and door-to-door campaigns. Banners with outsized headshots of politicians (mostly Zanu-PF) have been erected along the country’s busiest highways. Posters are plastered on every second wall in the public space.
Consumers of state-controlled television and radio stations are treated to a heavy diet of Zanu-PF jingles praising the sitting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa which are played ad-nauseam.
Although there are
