Good Luck, Zimbabwe; I Hope the Coup Is a Camouflaged Blessing

by Charles MudedeCapital of the basket case of Africa. Sproetniek/gettyimages.com
Robert Mugabe basically pulled the plug on Zimbabwe's fragile economy in 2000, when he destroyed the banking sector by destroying the agriculture sector to maintain power in a moment of desperation. As everyone should know, the deepest grievance for many black Africans in Zimbabwe has been the land issue. White Africans had all of the good land, and black Africans had the bad land (called "reservations"). Mugabe, w