In August 2008, I visited a hospital roughly 100 miles outside the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Hundreds of patients lay in overcrowded wards and on makeshift beds in hallways and in waiting areas.

As Zimbabwe's political and economic collapse enters its second decade, this book summarizes the historical and structural factors that led to it. Western observers tend to blame Robert Mugabe's ...

Great Zimbabwe: debunking the myth of tyrants and forced labour Robert T. Nyamushosho, Queens College, CUNY For more than a ...

April 18 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe marks 30 years of independance from Britain on Sunday. Here are some key dates in Zimbabwe's past: 1965 - Prime Minister Ian Smith cuts Rhodesia's ties with colonial ...

In 2008, Zimbabwe suffered the second most severe episode of hyperinflation in recorded history. Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate peaked in November 2008, reaching 89.7 sextillion (10^21) percent.

It is believed that the first cricket match staged in what was then known as Rhodesia took place on August 16, 1890 near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo). By the mid 1890s the principal match of the ...