Eddison zvobgo biography

Founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU–PF (–)

Eddison Jonasi Mudadirwa Zvobgo (2 October – 22 August ) was a Zimbabwean politician and the founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU–PF.^[1] He was the ZANU-PF's spokesman at the Lancaster House in late ,^[2] a Harvard-educated lawyer, a war veteran, a freedom fighter, a poet, a national hero, and a hotelier.

His name is often misspelled by the media, either as "Edson" instead of Eddison or "Zvogbo" instead of Zvobgo.

Zvobgo was born in dire poverty in then Southern Rhodesia in , near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), where his father was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. He comes from the Karanga subgroup of the Shona people. In , Zvobgo won a scholarship to Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts aged After taking a bachelor's degree there in , he returned home to be arrested and detained for political activism against white rule in Rhodesia, along with Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo Obituary: Eddison Zvobgo – The Mail & Guardian!