The rich also love, and the geriatric frog always gets his ambitious princess
Grace Mugabe is exemplary of how women have been surviving and sometimes even thriving by exploiting the one guaranteed weakness suffered by the patriarchy: Sex. One day you are a secretary, the next you are Gucci Grace. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
When CNN published an article on September 11 titled, ‘I Looked at Her Lustfully, Then Kissed Her:’ Mugabe on Wooing His Wife, it went viral on the continent, as expected.
It gave me one immediate worry: First, that the wider readership should keep in mind that this isn’t some kind of frequently occurring African courtship “thing” but rather the very specific and unexpectedly awkward confession of one geriatric dictator.
