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Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.

Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

I guess you could say I'm lucky because I've known a Zimbabwe that didn't have Robert Mugabe leading it. One of the saddest things about Zimbabwe is there are so many hidden casualties of the Mugabe government's misrule. They're not just casualties that you immediately see.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.