Robert Mugabe is a hero to many in Africa, a fact that Western media struggles to grasp

It was no wonder that the first thing U.S. President Barack Obama did was to remove the bust of Churchill which had been installed in the Oval Office by George W. Bush.

But then Obama has read his history and does not swallow whole simple narratives such as those woven by the Western media, in whose eyes Mugabe, — whose slip while walking down the steps last week caused such merriment in some quarters — is one of history’s greatest villains.

Murithi Mutiga is an editor with the Nation Media Group based in Nairobi, Kenya. A version of this article was first published in the Africa Review

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