Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.” For Zimbabwe, my homeland, it was just such a week, into which we stuffed decades of arrested political development. After being ruled by Robert Mugabe for a stifling 37 years, Zimbabwe shook itself free of him at last, in a matter of days. History in Zimbabwe stands astride a stark binary of before and after. The “before” is the era when it was still white-ruled Rhodesia, a regime that ended in 1980 following a seven-year...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 22, 2017 22:52 UTC