ROBERT MUGABE
Open main menu Search Edit Watch this page Read in another language Robert Mugabe "Mugabe" redirects here. For other uses, see Mugabe (disambiguation) . Robert Gabriel Mugabe ( / m ʊ ˈ ɡ ɑː b i / ; [1] Shona: [muɡaɓe] ; born 21 February 1924) is 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 chaired the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) group 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 , although after the 1990s self-identified only as a socialist . His policies have been described as Mugabeism . Robert Mugabe 2nd President of Zimbabwe In office 31 Dec...