A biography of Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa released on Thursday sold copies worth US$755,700 (about R11m) on the day of release, the presidency says.
This ranks high up with the record buy of a copy of former first lady Grace Mugabe's book chronicling her life in pictures bought for $50,000 by a local prophet, Walter Magaya, in 2015.retailing at $15 per copy was written by former MDC politician, Eddie Cross, who until last year served as one of Mnangagwa’s economic advisers at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Cross added that he met American officials in a bid to convince them to give Mnangagwa a break. “Do you appreciate two risks which this man you sanction took in 2018? One, giving this country the freest ever election this country ever had. Two, offering himself as a candidate in that election which he won fair and square,” he said. Then, looking at Mnangagwa, he said, “You won that election Mr President.
For the first time pictures of his late parents, Mafidhi and Mhurai Mnangagwa, are made public in the book. There’s also a picture of Mnangagwa in a graduation gown after finishing a law degree at the University of Zambia.The book does not address key issues such as Gukurahundi - a dark episode in Zimbabwe’s history that claimed 20,000 civilian lives. During the Gukurahundi era, 1981-1987, Mnangagwa was state security minister under the late Robert Mugabe.
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