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Mugabeâs legacy is a looted, broken state
Though Robert Mugabeâs successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, described his mentor, who has died aged 95 in Singapore, as âan icon of liberationâ Mugabe was an African freedom fighter turned kleptocratic despot straight from central casting â maybe central casting at Londonâs Ealing Studios where tales of empire were gilded and offered as history rather than entertainment.