Zimbabwe’s New Authoritarian Template: From Coup to Constitution
In November 2017, Zimbabwe entered a defining chapter in its political history when the military intervened to remove long-time ruler Robert Mugabe. The event was carefully choreographed and linguistically sanitised as a “military-assisted transition,” a phrase designed to avoid the stigma associated with coups. Yet, regardless of terminology, the essence of that moment lay in... The post Zimbabwe’s New Authoritarian Template: From Coup to Constitution first appeared on Democracy in Africa.
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In November 2017, Zimbabwe entered a defining chapter in its political history when the military intervened to remove long-time ruler Robert Mugabe. The event was carefully choreographed and linguistically sanitised as a “military-assisted transition,” a phrase designed to avoid the stigma associated with coups. Yet, regardless of terminology, the essence of that moment lay in...
The post Zimbabwe’s New Authoritarian Template: From Coup to Constitution first appeared on Democracy in Africa.
