President Mugabe Is The World’s Most Educated President

President Mugabe is the world’s most educated President to ever live. He started out as a teacher, the President went on to have many qualifications in Law, Economics and Arts. Anybody who’s listened to President Mugabe speak can confirm his intelligence and what a great orator he is.

Whilst most Presidents’ degrees are honorary, Mugabe studied for most of his degrees, six of them he earned through distance learning and two of those six whilst in prison and even after becoming the President of Zimbabwe, he continued to study. Here’s a list of his academic and honorary degrees to his name.

President Mugabe Is The World’s Most Educated President

ACADEMIC DEGREES

1. Bachelor of Arts (History and English) (BA) degrees from the University of fort Hare 1951.

2. Bachelor of Administration (B.Admin) from the University of South Africa (UNISA).

3. Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) from the University of South Africa (UNISA).

4. Bachelor Science (BSc) in Economics from the University of London.

5. Bachelor of Laws (LL.M) from the University of London.

6. Bachelor of Laws (LL.M) from the University of London.

7. Master of Science (MSc) in Economics from the University of London.

The two Law degrees were earned while he was in Prison from 1964-1975 and the MSc while leading the Zimbabwe government after Independence.

HONORARY DEGREES

8. Honorary LLD degree from Ahmadou Bello University (Nigeria).

9. Honorary LLD degree from Morehouse College (Atlanta Georgia).

10. Honorary LLD degree from the University of Zimbabwe.

11. Honorary LLD degree from St. Augustine’s University (Tanzania).

12. Honorary LLD degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia).

13. Honorary LLD degree from Solusi University (Zmbabwe).

14. Honorary D. Litt degree from Africa University (Zimbabwe)

15. Honorary D.Civil Laws degree from University of Mauritius (Mauritius).

16. Honorary D.Com. degree from Fort Hare University (South Africa).

17. Honorary D.Tech. degree from National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe).

18. Honorary D.Phil (African Heritage and Philosophy) from Great Zimbabwe University (Zimbabwe).

Zimbabwe has a high rate of literacy and this might have been influenced by its leader’s eagerness to learning and how education is perceived as the only way to a better life by Zimbabweans. Maybe education is Mugabe’s best kept secret to living a very successful life.