These are Africa’s seven independence leaders who were intellectuals in their own rights

Robert Mugabe

The modern world will judge Mugabe by the violence that marked the last decade of his presidency in Zimbabwe. But the former teacher was more than that.

He is reputed as the “most educated man” to be president as Mugabe had about seven degrees he studied for. Apart from that, Mugabe’s philosophical premises for fighting for independence were what can be described as “black Pan-Africanism”.

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