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Robert Mugabe: From Teacher to Freedom Fighter
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born February 21, 1924, in Katuma, a Jesuit mission station 50 miles west of the Southern Rhodesian capital. His father, Gabriel Matibili, was a carpenter from Nyasaland (later Malawi).
His mother, Bona, belonged to the prominent Shona ethnic group.
Did you know? Originally known as Southern Rhodesia and later as Zimbabwe Rhodesia, Zimbabwe was renamed upon gaining independence from Britain in 1980.
The name comes from a Shona term for the kingdom that controlled the area between 1220 and 1450.
Mugabe graduated from Katuma’s St. Francis Xavier College in 1945.
Origin of robert mugabe biography summary
For the next 15 years he taught in Rhodesia and Ghana and pursued further education at Fort Hare University in South Africa. In Ghana he met and married his first wife, Sally Hayfron.
In 1960 Mugabe joined the pro-independence National Democratic Party, becoming its publicity secretary.
In 1961 the NDP was banned and reformed as the Zimbabwe Afri