The bone and the meat

<p>This is the story of Nicolas Dzimbahwe a man who rose from the crushing poverty of the Mupedzanhamo slums to seize the highest office in the Republic of Monomutapa. It is the story of a promise.</p><p>Dzimbahwe's entire political philosophy was rooted in a single visceral metaphor that resonated deeply with his impoverished nation: The poor do not prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat. He swore to break the cycle to dismantle the structures of scarcity and to finally feed his people the sustenance they deserved.</p><p>When Dzimbahwe won the presidency he was armed with idealism and a mandate for revolutionary change. This book chronicles his four years in power a period that begins with the magnificent victory of the Gold House and the promise of the Grand River Bridge and ends in the chilling silence of compromise.</p><p>The tragedy of this narrative is not one of a good man fighting a great evil but of an idealist battling the very nature of systemic power. Dzimbahwe soon discovers that the system he came to dismantle is not a machine to be broken; it is a living organism designed to absorb neutralize and repurpose its attackers.</p><p>In the glittering halls of the State House surrounded by the military complex of General Tawanda and the shadow money of the ECD Dzimbahwe is offered the ultimate choice: he can sacrifice himself and his power to stay pure or he can take the gilded seat of the Presidency-the biggest most celebrated bone in the nation-and attempt to chew his way to a compromise.</p><p>The Bone and the Meat is an unflinching look at the devastating cost of an unfulfilled promise. It asks a painful enduring question of leadership governance and scarcity: When given the chance to fight for the many is it possible to remain unbroken? And when the dust settles who truly gets to eat?</p>