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A Tale of Two Africas
By Joseph Siegle
Joseph Siegle is the Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a co-author of a forthcoming book on democracy and development.
July 13, 2003
WASHINGTON � Neither Kenya nor Zimbabwe was on President Bush's Africa itinerary last week. Yet the two countries exemplify the diverging trajectories shaping the continent today.
Kenya experienced a democratic breakthrough with December's first successful transfer of power after 40 years of one-party rule. Since then, Kenyans have had more reason for optimism than at any time since the early days of independence in the 1960s.
In Zimbabwe, optimism has been displaced by misery. This is almost entirely caused by the increasingly autocratic rule of its leader, Robert Mugabe. In his attempt to cling to the power he's held for 24 years, Mugabe has driven his once-promising country into the ground.
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