The first book about Mugabe as Dictator by a renowned author and journalist.
Christopher Hope met his first dictator when he was six years old. Dr Henrik Verwoerd was a neighbour of the Hope family and went on to become the architect of apartheid.
He was the first, but not the last. Hope thought the days of Verwoerd were gone until Robert Mugabe began to mimic the old Doctor. Hope dissects the person and presumption of Mugabe, the mixture of terror and comedy that makes up his dictatorship.
Furthermore 'Brothers Under The Skin' describes the nature of modern tyranny, its wild paranoia, its murderous conviction of righteousness, its narrow depleted vocabulary and its inability to concede power, however small. Even though modern tyranny is not exclusively Zimbabwean, African or European, in Robert Mugabe, it has found its apotheosis.
