Resource April 16, 2018

Meet the Journalist: Joshua Hammer

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Robert Mugabe's downfall after 37 years in power left beleaguered Zimbabweans euphoric, but the rise...

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Joshua Hammer, author and foreign correspondent, recently returned from a visit to Zimbabwe to write about the last days of the dictator Robert Mugabe. Image by Joshua Hammer. Zimbabwe, 2017.
Joshua Hammer, author and foreign correspondent, recently returned from a visit to Zimbabwe to write about the last days of the dictator Robert Mugabe. Image by Joshua Hammer. Zimbabwe, 2017.

Author, Smithsonian and Outside contributing editor, and Pulitzer Center grantee Joshua Hammer discusses his trip to Zimbabwe to report on the downfall of Africa's longest-ruling dictator, Robert Mugabe. Despite vows to remain in power until he died, Mugabe was pushed out by the military following a Shakespearian drama involving his wife, Grace, and his longtime hatchet man, Emmanuel Mnangagwa. Hammer unravels the plot and weighs the prospects for a less violent, more equitable future under Mnangagwa, aka "The Crocodile."

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