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...social misdemeanors. "I'm fed up with gritty, in-your-face stuff," he says. "I don't like to read too much about the distressing aspects of life." Especially when it comes to Africa, McCall Smith tries to focus on the positive. His childhood years in what was then Rhodesia were happy ones, and "early memories of that sort are so important." He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which he got to know well while helping to set up the nation's law school in the early '80s. "People don't usually see this side of Africa," he says...
...Zimbabwe, the answer has always been to make music. Traditionally, the mbira (thumb piano) was used to summon spirits for help. Music was also Zimbabwe's oral newspaper, and the sung editorials often spurred action. In the '70s, when Ian Smith's whites-only government ruled what was then Rhodesia, says Mapfumo, "music inspired youngsters to fight that oppressive regime." Zimbabwe is independent now, he says, "but the struggle is not yet won." In a land where most trickles of dissent are quickly dammed, Zimbabwe's two musical legends sing on and sing out like floods. They have different styles...
Nyarota was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and attended was then the University of Rhodesia. He received his B.A. in 1974 and went into teaching, the only field open to young black college-graduates in colonial Rhodesia...
...less a about his abuse of political power, and more about whom he is attacking. The European Union and the U.S. claim to be appalled by his human rights record, but there are a dozen other comparable leaders in Africa. As Barron points out, the white colonial ruler of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, was not condemned for his abuses; he was invited by Jimmy Carter to see a Broadway play, even though Smith ran a murderous regime...
...another odd link to the case: the anthrax-filled letters sent to Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle had the same fictitious return address: 4th Grade, Greendale School, Franklin Park, N.J. There is no Greendale School in New Jersey. In the 1980s, Hatfill attended medical school in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), not far from a Greendale school...