Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician, and dictator who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017. He served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as its secon
Official portrait, 1995
Mugabe was inspired by the example set by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah.
Joshua Nkomo became one of the leading figures of resistance to white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.
While Mugabe was imprisoned, Ian Smith became leader of Rhodesia.
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised state
Robert Mugabe
…of sedition and imprisoned between 1964 and 1974. On release, he fled to Mozambique, established his leadership of ZANU, and oversaw its role in the Rhodesian Bush War, fighting Ian Smith's predominantly white government. He reluctantly participated in peace talks in the United Kingdom that resulted in the Lancaster…
Exiled members of the former Royal Albanian Guard in Rhodesia in the 1970s
White civilians; a woman and two young children killed at Elim Mission in eastern Rhodesia by ZANLA guerrillas in the 1978 Vumba massacre.
A Rhodesian soldier questioning villagers near the border with Botswana in 1977
A Leopard APC, mine-protected vehicle, designed and built in Rhodesia during the late 1970s and based on a Volkswagen engine. This example is displayed in the Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, UK