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Founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU–PF (1935–2004)

Eddison Jonasi Mudadirwa Zvobgo (2 October 1935 – 22 August 2004) was a Zimbabwean politician and the founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU–PF.^[1] He was the ZANU-PF's spokesman at the Lancaster House in late 1979,^[2] a Harvard-educated lawyer, a war veteran, a freedom fighter, a poet, a national hero, and a hotelier.

His name is often misspelled by the media, either as "Edson" instead of Eddison or "Zvogbo" instead of Zvobgo.

Zvobgo was born in dire poverty in then Southern Rhodesia in 1935, near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), where his father was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.

He comes from the Karanga subgroup of the Shona people. In 1960, Zvobgo won a scholarship to Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts aged 25. After taking a bachelor's degree there in 1964, he returned home to be arrested and detained for political activism against white rule in Rhodesia, alon