Swaziland’s King of Pain
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Even though his ascension to absolute rule was accomplished without any democratic process, it seems at the beginning of “Without the King,” a new documentary by Michael Skolnik, that the people of Swaziland couldn’t have chosen a more personable and reassuring figurehead than King Mswati III.
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