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