[spindritf]

Mugabe had led one of two guerrilla groups that liberated the former Rhodesia from a white-minority regime

Liberated in the same sense that Stalin liberated Eastern Europe.

The hedge fund (Och-Ziff) sounds like it was ripped from pages of a movie script. Young protege, cross-Atlantic deals with African dictators, corrupt soviet oligarchs, lavish estate in British countryside... no happy end though.

[r00fus]

Sounds like something out of Richard K Morgan's "Market Forces" actually.

But that's assuming life imitates art. Clearly it's the opposite - as books like John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" seem to indicate.