In 1965, the area in Africa then known as Rhodesia — the colonialist name for the region that’s now Zimbabwe — had established a new regime in the wake of British colonial rule.

When the country’s white leaders declared its independence late that year, TIME magazine noted that it was “the first nation in history to launch itself into a world all but unanimous in its hostility.” The U.N. also called it an “illegal racist minority regime.”

By the time a decade had passed, it was clear to all — except maybe some white Rhodesians who were not willing to accept the inevitable — that the existing government would not last much longer in the face of guerrilla resistance at home and disapproval around the globe. In a desperate attempt to stall the coming change, black activists were routinely jailed.

Robert Mugabe was one of these activists… So was he a freedom fighter, political activist, an evil dictator or all of the above?

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