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The documentary “Mugabe and the White African” is quite unbearable to watch, more for its outrageous propaganda content and much less for the vile and depraved image of Robert Mugabe it vainly attempts to portray — itself the evident credo to the authorship and intention of the film-maker, one Ben Freeth, an avowed Christian victim for the purposes of this documentary.
The pungent attacks on the character and person of Robert Mugabe have to be immortalised through literature and films — and this is precisely because Robert Mugabe has been diagnosed as a viral cause to a disease that threatens the -
Depending on the interests of the world’s super powers, various devices are used to either endorse and bless elections in weaker states, or condemn and vilify them.
We are heading for elections in Zimbabwe this year and for largely unexplained reasons, the Western-sponsored MDC formations are quite reluctant to participate, pushing the chaotic drafting of a new Constitution as more pressing than the illegal 18-month unexplained extension of the Inclusive Government, itself a product of lengthy talks between six hand-picked politicians; three lawyers, an accountant, a diplomat and a woman political activist turned politician — talks that were purely about three political parties coming together to form a government of politicians, by politicians and for their -
The inferiority of the African, just like the dominance of the European has from the time of slavery, through colonisation, all the way to the present moment unabatedly continued to be promoted by a racist propagating of historical and cultural falsehoods.
Africans have been victims of European racial supremacy in a way not too different from the position of women in primitive hetaeristic societies. Africa is communal property to the Western world, just like women are communal property to hetaerists. The bondage of the black person has sadly been perpetuated by delusions that reign supreme in the mentalities of post-slavery and post-colonial African denizens. -
Every sane person wants to be optimistic about democracy and the rule of law, and would leap at any straw in the wind to express appreciation for this nobility. This is precisely why the gospel of democracy and human rights became for a good while a currency for the expansion of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change.
For a good while because the people of Zimbabwe have now made an unequivocal distinction between the perfect logic of democracy and the total insanity of politicking, regardless of who is carrying out the politicking dramas. -
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The mass media is to the general populace what the clergy is to the Church. Evangelism and the teaching of the word of God in the Church is what news bulletins are to the general public.
Both the mass media and the clergy serve a system for communicating messages and symbols to their respective audiences, having a compelling function to amuse, entertain, inform, and to inculcate values, beliefs, and codes of behaviour designed to orient people into specific institutional structures.
To sustain the inequalities brought about by class differences and interests, the role of the mass media has sadly been to -
What dominates the order of social and political life in Africa today is not exactly a true African identity. Rather we live in an era where white influence has so expertly and consistently associated the history and culture of Africans with the evocation of feelings of helplessness, shame, guilt, inadequacy, anxiety, abuse, social ridicule, social disapproval, humiliation, inferiority, backwardness, and lack of social and economic status.
So overwhelming is the aversive effect of white dominance that many of our people in Africa feel obligated to reject and -
We must think again whenever we celebrate the virtues of democracy, libertarianism and even human rights. Many of our political activists seem to believe that democratic values are tenacious, so easy to borrow that we simply need a viscous relationship with democracy preachers from the West, and there
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There is no doubt that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai views his political career as the White man’s burden, not only financially, but also strategically, and even diplomatically.
A man who flies to Britain to plead with the imperial power’s Premier that he “must insist on the necessary reforms to create a conducive environment for free and fair elections and a lasting solution to the crisis in Zimbabwe,” might sound reasonable ordinarily, but talking to the British Premier about -
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It is important to note that some Zimbabwean leaders have a stake in ensuring the continuation of the suffering of our poor masses, especially the peasant and the unemployed youths. We must be alive to the reality that contradiction is of major importance in the careers of politicians who occupy our legislature and our executive, sometimes even our judiciary.
Politics have been reduced to an art of contradiction. It is the people without love who most often talk -
The whole concept of democracy and civil libertarianism largely emanates from the celebrated works of Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth century. Through the colonial legacy, Africa has been converted to a lapdog imitator of Western civilisation, pathetically feeding Western industrialisation with raw materials and natural resources, while celebrating the sucking of the blood of the continent by the vampires after whose civilisation we all strive, less for its benefits to us and more for our lost
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When you are an anti-imperialist and you are in the habit of attacking imperialism’s economic libertarianism it is quite easy to find allies among Western leftists and it could even be achievable to end up with centre-right allies of the likes of author AC Grayling.
It is when one attacks Western capitalism as having certainly benefited from the regime of civil liberties, more precisely from the façade of the doctrine of human rights, that one starts to get fewer -
The politics of Africa have shifted from the liberation and empowerment ethos of the black power movement era and from that of the anti-colonialism legacy. Today’s young African political activists largely style themselves as advocates for democracy, elections, and good governance — with the concept of democracy elevated through aphoristic and vatic prose imported straight from the
Western lexicon — itself exalted as the language of enlightenment. During the 8th Ordinary Session -
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There are more than a dozen countries set to hold elections in Africa this year, and in every one of them the West is determined to influence the outcome for imperialistic political ends. We have this exaggerated recency added to the idea of democracy in Africa, creating a media illusion that says we have a continent where freedom and liberty are exquisite, if not a new phenomenon altogether.
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Author of "Sovereign Virtue," Ronald Dworkin wrote, "Equal concern is the sovereign virtue of political community: without it government is only tyranny." This writer wrote about the Zimbabwean revolution last week, lamenting bitterly the intransigence and inexorability of elite bureaucrats and that of politicians at whose alter these arrogant officials worship in
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This writer was a mere 13-year-old on the eve of Zimbabwe's national independence in April 1980. Then there was an enigmatic political atmosphere pitting the overrated and defeated camp of capitalist-leaning political leaders who had favoured an internal settlement with Ian Smith, now standing in opposition to revolutionary leaders Robert Gabriel Mugabe
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