Introduction: Mugabeism and entanglements of history, politics and power in the making of Zimbabwe / Mugabeism, economic nationalism and pan-Africanism. Robert Mugabe: an intellectual manque and his moments of meaning / Mugabe on land, indigenization and development / Mugabe's neo-sultanist rule: beyond the veil of pan-Africanism / Diplomacy, solidarity and power. Intransigent diplomat: Robert Mugabe and his western diplomacy / Sheriff in the club of dictators?: Robert Mugabe's role in the politics of Southern Africa / In the footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian solidarity with Mugabe's populism: (bogus) anti-imperialism in practice / Robert Mugabe: the will to power and crisis of the paradigm of war / Masculinity, gender and corruption. Mugabe the man-nation: two views of culture and history in the construction of Zimbabwe / Grappling with Mugabe's masculinist politics in Zimbabwe: a gender perspective / Corruption and the comrades: Mugabe and the 'fight' against corruption in Zimbabwe / Global coloniality, racism and militarism. Mugabe's land reform and the provocation of global white anti-black racism / A Fanonian reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as colonial subject / African leadership in the age of Euro-North American-centric modernity: a decolonial critique of Robert Mugabe / Mugabe and the military alliance: Zimbabwe's prospects of democratic transition