Though some YouTube commenters have objected to Nando’s making light of brutal tyranny, the dictator ad is not only topical but, in its way, somewhat historically accurate: Mugabe, shown here engaged in a joyous water-pistol fight with Muammar Gaddafi, was indeed good friends and business partners with the now-fallen Libyan dictator. In later years, Mugabe disagreed with Gaddafi’s openness to Western investment — but who’s to say that before things went sour, they never frolicked in a garden together, then repaired to Mugabe’s house for some chicken?
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