Zimbabwe Under Mugabe
Hunger, fear, corruption.

APRIL 3, 2006. For a crash course on Mugabe's Zimbabwe, read Doris Lessing's scathing and indispensable The Jewel of Africa, then check out the Amnesty International Report 2005 and Human Rights Watch overview. Go to the Zimbabwe Situation for information about the country from the perspective of the embattled opposition.

For a New Yorker's look at Zimbabwe, check out the links below for Nat Hentoff's seven-part series in The Village Voice.

• Land of Fear, Rape, and Hunger
The City Council Welcomes a Dictator
October 4th, 2002

• Hell Is a Real Place: Zimbabwe
Anyone in America Give a Damn?
October 11th, 2002

• Mugabe's Victims: Mostly Black
Charles Barron Calls It 'One of the Most Stable Countries in Africa'
May 2nd, 2003

• Any Anti-Mugabe Protesters Here?
Zimbabwe Cleared by United Nations
May 9th, 2003

• Terrorizing the Press
'Could I Be Bombed? Or Be Thrown Behind Bars?'
May 16th, 2003

• Where Is Nelson Mandela?
Black U.S. Leaders Also Silent
May 23rd, 2003

• U.S. Black Leaders Confront Mugabe
Policemen's Feet on Demonstrators' Heads
June 13th, 2003