Zimbabwe: Lessons in retrospect (continued)

In 1980 the black Zimbabweans voted overwhelmingly and the black majority rule materialized in which Zanu pf won resoundingly displacing the white settler regime that had became unpopular in the eyes of the international community a result of its human rights abuses, separate development and segregation.

At this point you could see exhilaration and positivity right across the entire country as people felt liberated from all sorts of repressive aspects of the system.

Interestingly one day I happened to work with my father in the fields a great thinker, one of the best English speaker I had ever come across, a pragmatist in every sense of the term although he never got that recognition he so much deserved and we had deep conversations about issues in general and eventually we got to discussing "leadership" and what Africa needs in terms of leadership and this is what he said to me: " Look son, you can be the speaker of English as a language but remember we do not eat English " eish this was a big political statement of the time.

Now I look at things in retrospect and the current: Germans,French,Russians,Spanish, Belgians to mention a few are doing very well politically and economically but still proud of their language. Why can't we in Africa??? We fought colonialism but we still are proud of English without any successes,....eish kunzima lapha akelingincede.