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...increasingly miserable years. "I'm just trying to reach the people," Mapfumo says. The roars that shake the packed hall suggest he's succeeding. That same week, on the opposite side of the country, Oliver Mtukudzi - Mapfumo's former bandmate and the other giant of Zimbabwean music - is in Binga, a rural area on Zimbabwe's western edge. Binga is as hot, parched and brown as Mutare is cool, well-watered and green. Tuku, as he's known to friends and fans, settles down on a dusty wooden bench with his guitar. All day, he has been clapping...
...Last week, Mugabe was in Paris at the Franco-African summit, hobnobbing with other leaders and enjoying, thanks to his hosts, the temporary suspension of his E.U. travel ban. Most Zimbabweans didn't notice he was gone. Nor did they when he jetted off to Southeast Asia on vacation or to Zambia for a meeting or to Libya to visit his friend Muammar Gaddafi. People are busy with other worries, like what to feed the family. You might only notice when Mugabe's convoy - jeeploads of soldiers and that shiny black Mercedes - speeds by on its way to the airport...
...Zimbabwean journalist, who would not talk about his situation over the phone for fear that an interviewer was actually a spy from his government, spoke deliberately yesterday about numerous attacks on the newspaper he founded and the government harassment that drove him to flee to South Africa...
After the Nieman Foundation received a call about Nyarota, they spent a few hours discussing the Zimbabwean writer before deciding to offer him a place...
...reform has taken so long. Often, white governments are accused of stalling on land reform or of not taking it seriously, whereas the truth is that Western governments have always accepted the need for reform. In reality, several of them, including the former colonial power Britain, have given the Zimbabwean government funds to undertake these reforms. But these funds have been squandered by a government that, up until now, carefully avoided undertaking all but the most perfunctory land reform. Britain’s current refusal to provide funds for reform, much vilified by Mugabe’s sympathizers, has nothing...