‘Democrats’ Is an Incisive Profile of Zimbabwe’s Smiling Dictatorship

Paul Mangwana and Douglas Mwonzora are extremely busy. That’s probably a very boring thing to say about politicians, but it’s also the first thing you notice. The two men are the stars of Democrats, Camilla Nielsson’s chronicle of the writing of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution. Each of her subjects is introduced from the front seat of his car, in transit b…