Philip Gourevitch, "Wasteland"
(New Yorker 3 June 2002): as you can tell from its
title, this article has a hard time avoiding many of the old colonialist
(not to say racist) stereotypes typical of Western reporting about
Africa. But it will still give you some idea of the sad fate that's
befallen Zimbabwe over the past couple of decades.
"Zim Heavy": Rock and Roll in 1970s Zimbabwe (Snap Judgment episode 717: "Shake, Rattle, and Roll")