# Robert Mugabe

> He led Zimbabwe from colonial liberation to international pariah state, turning a 37-year grip on power into a case study in how revolutionary credibility decays into dictatorship, famine, and the world's highest inflation rate.

*2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/robert-mugabe

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1924-02-21
- **Died:** 2019-09-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Mugabe was born into poverty in Southern Rhodesia in 1924, trained as a schoolteacher, and spent a decade in prison for sedition after joining the fight against white minority rule. Released in 1974, he fled to Mozambique, took command of ZANU, and waged the Rhodesian Bush War until the Lancaster House Agreement ended it. In the 1980 election he won the premiership of newly independent Zimbabwe, expanded healthcare and education, and called for racial reconciliation. But relations with rival Joshua Nkomo collapsed: between 1982 and 1987 Mugabe's 5th Brigade killed at least 20,000 in Matabeleland, crushing ZAPU-linked opposition in the Gukurahundi. From 2000 he urged violent seizures of white-owned farms, collapsing food production and triggering hyperinflation that hit 7600% by 2007. He held power through fraud, violence, and appeals to his rural Shona base until his own party forced him out in a 2017 coup.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 78.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 26.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 28.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #147

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #20th Century

## Sources
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- [Роберт Мугабэ](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8D)
- [Робърт Мугабе](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5)
- [রবার্ট মুগাবে](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87)
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- [Ρόμπερτ Μουγκάμπε](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84_%CE%9C%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5)
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