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Chicken for change? Robert Mugabe mocked in pop video

Video by World Cup group Freshlyground challenges Zimbabwe dictator 'become the hero he used to be' – and step downRobert Mugabe has never been known for his sense of humour. So you wouldn't want to be the apparatchik at Zimbabwe's State House explaining to the president how a music video that lampoons him as a chicken is threatening to go viral.A latex puppet of Mugabe, redolent of 80s TV satire Spitting Image, is the star of a slick video by multinational African group Freshlyground, best kn...

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12:13 on September 3 2010

Chicken for change? Robert Mugabe mocked in pop video

Guardian Music — Video by World Cup group Freshlyground challenges Zimbabwe dictator 'become the hero he used to be' – and step downRobert Mugabe has never been known for his sense of h... more info

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