NELSON CHAMISA is whipping up the crowd at an election rally for
the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Chitungwiza on the
outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, as the July 31st poll
approaches. “A Zanu-PF rally is like a funeral; an MDC rally is
like a wedding,” the politician says to cheers from supporters
in red MDC T-shirts and hats.  The typical MDC supporter has
attended more nuptials than wakes. Almost all of those packed
into the overflowing stadium look as if they were born after
President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party came to power in
1980. If Baobab spots anyone over 25 years old, it is usually an
MDC candidate, party bigwig or election observer. The master of
ceremonies, Mr Chamisa, at only 35, has already served four
years as a minister for information technology in an uneasy
coalition government with Zanu-PF. Solomon Madzore, the MDC’s
youth leader, tellingly gets one of the biggest cheers of the
day.  The party’s leader and presidential candidate, Morgan
Tsvangirai, is last to spe