From what little I've heard I get the sense that it's something "bad" but my knowledge of it pretty much starts and ends with this meme I posted.
By the way, here's the source for the meme.
From what little I've heard I get the sense that it's something "bad" but my knowledge of it pretty much starts and ends with this meme I posted.
By the way, here's the source for the meme.
I wouldn't say it was a communist revolution. The West, China and the Soviets pressured South Africa and Rhodesia to give more rights to natives. First they tried to set up a puppet government with a weak native figure they could control, they renamed the country Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and removed much of the apartheid system from schools, military and public office.
Despite all this, no one believed their attempt to appeal to the West, and in 1980 the UK re-annexed the region only to give it its formal independence under a national unity government with Mugabe and Nkomo in power. While some of the white population of Zimbabwe fled to SA and UK.
Much of Mugabe's authoritarianism comes from terrorist attacks done by angry ex-mercenaries who wanted to kill him and re-establish their white supremacist state again. But yes, Mugabe was homophobic and a corrupt politician.