The Harare handshake: Soft power, Africa style
2008 July 25
Alan Cowell of the International Herald Tribune calls the handshake shared between Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai in Harare, South Africa an “iconic moment” that augurs a “new way of political interaction.” It is also a victory for a distinctly African diplomacy, he says. This triumph of African soft power, however, came at the grave price of human lives – as Cowell puts it, “An African solution, it seemed, required African pain.”
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