In this article for Liberty, I examine Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe’s fall and argue that the country’s deeper problems extend far beyond one man.

The article draws on my experience in Zimbabwe to examine hyperinflation, property confiscation, political tyranny, institutional collapse, and the deeper cultural conditions that make liberty and rule of law almost impossible to sustain. Mugabe was not the root cause of Zimbabwe’s decay; he was a symptom of a society unable to preserve the institutional inheritance it received.

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