Smoke, Mirrors, and Sovereign Debt: Inside the Zimbabwe-Botswana Cold War the World Can’t Ignore
Victoria Falls, that thundering curtain of water the locals politely call “The Smoke That Thunders,” has always offered a convenient metaphor for southern Africa: loud, wet, and impossible to ignore. These days the roar is coming not from the Zambezi but from two neighboring countries—Zimbabwe and Botswana—whose latest tiff is less a border skirmish than…
