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Myths, truths about Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe

NAIROBI: Disembarking from the plane at Harare International Airport in Harare last week, a passenger standing next to me uttered what sounded like a Swahili word: "Tuonane."

That prompted me to ask a Zimbabwean friend what the word meant in Shona language and my suspicion was confirmed: the word tuonane means exactly the same in Shona (see you later).

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