Robert Gabriel Mugabe (21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean
revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to
1987 and then as President from
1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African
National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and
led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic
Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017.
Ideologically an African nationalist,
during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist during the 1990s and the remainder of his career.
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