Winning the African Prize for Repression Zimbabwe

• Published in: Worst of the Worst p. 166
• Main Author: Robert I. Rotberg
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation 01.03.2008; Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Subjects: Agricultural geography; Agricultural land; Agricultural sciences; Agriculture; Agronomy; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Constituents; Countries; Crops; Democracy; Emotional defense mechanisms; Government; Human behavior; Human geography; Human rights; International relations; Jurisprudence; Law; Natural law; Natural rights; Nongovernmental organizations; Personality; Personality processes; Personality psychology; Philosophy of law; Political elections; Political geography; Political oppression & persecution; Political organizations; Political parties; Political processes; Political regimes; Political science; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Political systems; Politics; Psychology; Representative democracy; Repression; Social sciences; Torture; Violence; Voting

Zimbabwe, Togo, and Equatorial Guinea are the leading repressive states in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of their neighbors may be poorly managed, corrupt, and barely democratic, but only those three bear comparison with the extreme kinds of nation-states that are the subjects of this book. None in sub-S...