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@Sipho_Mudau
Jesus follower | Husband 💍 | Zimbabwean 🇿🇼 | Writer of #KnowYourDictators (see link) | Co-founder of Aviato | Investor in Dunder Mifflin & Theranos
Jun 20, 2019 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
The name Idris conjures up images of a tall, dark and debonair Englishman. Or a sungura artist.

Unless you’re from Chad, where the name is enough to make you recoil in fear as it belongs to iron-fisted leader since 1990, Idriss Deby.

A thread.

#KnowYourDictators 1. Chad🇹🇩 became independent of France in 1960, but in true democratic style there has never been a change to the Presidency by an election, only succession by capture the flag; the incumbent is killed and the successor tries to hold power for as long as he (its always HE) can.