Robert mugabe biography education

President of Zimbabwe from to

For his son, see Robert Mugabe Jr. For the Ugandan military officer, see Robert Freeman Mugabe.

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Robert mugabe biography education

For other uses, see Mugabe (disambiguation).

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (;^[1]Shona:[muɡaɓe]; 21 February – 6 September ) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from to and then as President from to He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from to and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from to Ideologically an African nationalist, during the s and s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist during the s and the remainder of his career.

Mugabe was born to a poor Shona family in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Kutama College and the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, he then worked as a schoolteacher in Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Ghana.

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