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President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

For his son, see Robert Mugabe Jr. For the Ugandan military officer, see Robert Freeman Mugabe.

"Mugabe" redirects here.

For other uses, see Mugabe (disambiguation).

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (;^[1]Shona:[muɡaɓe]; 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.

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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.

Mugabe was born to a poor Shona family in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia.

Educated at Kutama College and the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, he then worked as a schoolt