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Analysts Debate the Future of Zimbabwe

By Farai Chideya

Published March 29, 2005 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 19 years ago.

NPR's Farai Chideya speaks with two men who have very different views about the political health and future of Zimbabwe: Geoff Nyarota, founder and editor of the independent Zimbabwean newspaper The Daily News, and Kuthula Matshazi, a political columnist for Zimbabwe's Daily Mirror.

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Farai Chideya

Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio. Prior to joining NPR's News & Notes, Chideya hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show on San Francisco's KALW 91.7 FM. Chideya has also been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. In 1997 Newsweek named her to its "Century Club" of 100 people to watch.