What Mugabe has done for Zimbabweans and Africa at large is way more important than the little he’s taken. Mugabe just like Mandela, was thrown into prison for his fight for freedom of Zimbabwe people. Mugabe FREED Zimbabweans from Rhodesia, negotiated peace, created an intellectual space for his citizens and reclaimed lands. While most African leaders keep their citizens ignorant and illiterate, Mugabe turned Zimbabwe into the number one literate country in Africa. Truth is, whomever gives you information and knowledge is way more important than whomever have you in chains but well fed.
Zimbabwe’s economy was a sabotage by western countries once Mugabe took back lands from European settlers and any African who doesn’t know this, you are a freaking moron, sorry not sorry. Yes Mugabe had faults, lots of them, but still stand out to be the greatest and most prominent African leader today who believes in dignity of Africans and quest for self determination without outside interference. I to thought Mugabe should have recruited someone younger who believes in his ideals and mentor them, so he can retire early, but that never happened. In My book and any intelligent African book, Mugabe still reign supremo as a true pan African with the likes of Sankara, Lumumba, Nkuruma, Biko, Amílcar Cabral, Nyerere, Kaunda, Gaddafi among others. Zimbabwe’s domestic squabbles can not take a way from what this elder mean to this continent. We must remember that even Ghanaians kicked out Kwame Nkuruma into exile, yes Nkurumah that we all now see as a hero was chased a way like a dog by Ghanaians and they’ve never been the same. Africans tend to have very short memory and that’s why the continent is at average poor than the rest of the world. An average African lacks foresight and go along with western media narratives on what benefits westerners than Africa, we want short term gains promised by outsiders but not willing to build from grassroots up with our own resolves.
THANK YOU UNCLE BOB.
By: Africlandpost
Why is it that people who never stepped into Zimbabwe talk nonsense. He was a devil incarnate. Don’t tell us how we should react to him when between 3m and 4m Zimbos are refugees all over the world? Why do you think all these people left their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, grandchildren (yeah grandchildren). Have you ever lived in a country with an inflation of over a billion%? PLEASE DON’T TALK ON OUR BEHALF!!!!!
SUFFERER
I am also a zimbabwean citizen. I was in zim at its worst but i must say i do agree with this article. We cannot deny that he made mistakes that were detrimental to the zimbabwean people but he also did things other african leaders are too afraid to do because of the backlash from Western powers. Which other African countries have taken back their land? All they do is whatch their citizens complain and say they want the land back. Leaving them uneducated and suffering in massive slums. So i think we need to weigh the pros and the cons. I think he has put us in an upper hand position in terms of owernership of the country. What needs to be rectified now is the economy. If america can have its land owned by americans and function so well so can we. We cannot continue being secretly oppressed on African soil. For me that is the bigger picture.
It is human nature to be flawed and power can corrupt. Not forgetting the power of a woman, which we all witnessed in these last months. There was a time he should have stepped down and it didn’t happen but regardless i do believe he deserves a dignified stepping down. If not for him then as a testiment to the true nature of Zimbabweans.
He might have good intentions from the beginning. In a way I do raised my hat to him. He stood up to the American and the British government. He did not let them bullied him in any way.
But somewhere along the way he lost his calling. He started getting greedy. And like most politicians he fall of his white horse..
If you are in a race, the finishing line is the success winning line to cross. To call a man who starts well and ends without crossing the line is like saying all who do evil will enter heaven.
I get so angry when non Zimbabweans praise and exalt Mugabe. Are you aware Mugabe is one of the richest presidents in Africa. What is the point of educating people if you can’t give them jobs. If you criticise him you just disappear or get incarcerated. What kind of leader does that to his people.
Please don’t comment if you aren’t Zimbabwean…..please just dont. Any normal Zimbabwean will tell you that Mugabe’s rule has led to the suffering of a lot of people. Yes he stood up to the Americans and the British but his people are suffering right now. If you aren’t Zimbabwean just don’t comment.
President RG messed up somehow in his leadership but we shouldn’t forget the sacrifices. We must be able to forgive as Zimbabweans.
We must honor the man. Everyone screws up.