Is Mugabe Really That Lonely?

Pop culture artifacts are a great way to gauge the zeitgeist of an era. With that said, I introduce you to this commercial from Nando’s (an awesome peri peri chain with locations in the DC area):

Yes, that’s Robert Mugabe having a supersoaker fight with Qadaffi, singing karaoke with Mao, making sand angels with Saddam, swinging with P.W. Botha, and ghost riding the whip with Idi Amin.

Do we really have “less” dictators “than we used to”? Or is the nature of oppression just shifting from the traditional strongman dictator to something less opaque (and less colorful)?

Via Joshua Keating of Foreign Policy’s Passport.