Opinion / Columnist
Mnangagwa accuse 'Africans looking down upon themselves of holding back Africa' - it's him by refusing fallible and accountable
26 Jun 2021 at 10:35hrs | Views
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday took time to criticise some Africans he accused of continuously looking down upon themselves while apportioning high regard for Western ways of doing things," reported New Zimbabwe
"Let me explain to you why it is called Victoria Falls. There was a man called David Livingstone who visited this area and found some people who told him it is called Mosi-oa-Tunya and he couldn't comprehend. He named it after his Queen Victoria Falls who was sitting somewhere back there in his country. If we advertise saying visit Mosi-oa-Tunya you don't come, but if we say come to Victoria Falls you come. That is the tragedy of Africa," said Mnangagwa.
Actually the real tragedy of Africa is that we, especially our domineering "Misstra Know It All" leaders, make mountains out of mole-hills.
If calling the falls, Victoria Falls brings in tourists in the hundreds the and with them the wealth to the local community and the nation at large; and calling it Mosi-oa-Tunya only brings in a few tourists. Then call it Victoria Falls.
It was China's Chairman Deng Xiaoping who famously said "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
Many Africans' anti-West rhetoric is the antithesis of the inferiority complex brought on by the white supremacists' racist rhetoric. The rhetoric has become an obsession admitting failure in anything, even in the face of a mountain of evidence to prove the failure, is tantamount to acknowledging one's racial inferiority.
Of course, that is nonsense because we all make mistakes regardless of our race, gender, etc. And therefore to refuse to being fallible is to refuse to being human. It is bad enough for an individual to bury one's head in the sand and refuse to admit to one's failures but when the individual is in a position of power and authority, is a national leader, the consequences of a nation blundering from pillar to post will drag the whole nation into the gutter!
41 years and counting of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness has dragged Zimbabwe deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have usurped the people's freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. And so Zanu PF has dragged the nation into this hell-hole and we, the people have been helpless to stop it.
Mnangagwa said Pan Africa Postal Union should play a developmental role in uplifting standards of living in line with aspirations of the Africa Union's Agenda 2063.
Typical, he is always looking into the distant future, chasing a mirage; he will not talk about the present of the historic past because he knows they all point to a totally, totally different future to Africa's cuckoo land Agenda 2063!
By ignoring the present and the past Africa is failing to learn from the past and so is making the same foolish mistakes over and over again. Problems that should be nipped in the bud are allowed to grown out of proportion.
For example, Zimbabwe has swept corruption under the carpet for decades and now it has become so rampant, it is overwhelming the nation. A recent Auditor General report revealed that only 1% of US$4.5 billion in cash and material donated to the Cyclone Ida relief was put to good use the rest was looted or wasted. The country's future is grime, given such criminal waste of human and material resources.
Many independent African countries now look at the colonial years with begrudging nostalgia as the country's golden age. It is a damning testimonial of independent Africa's failure to govern ourselves.
Africa is being dragged back into the dark-ages not by Africans leaders who inflated ego and overarching inferiority complex will not allow them to admit they are fallible and are therefore subject to democratic scrutiny and accountability. They will not allow regime change because, to them, that is tantamount to "looking down upon themselves"!
The day Zimbabwe is able to hold free, fair and credible elections will be the greatest day in the country's history because it will mark the day the country has finally emerged from the dark of corruption and tyranny into the light of freedom and democracy. That will be a quantum leap and one Zanu PF is hell bend on resisting at all cost!
"Let me explain to you why it is called Victoria Falls. There was a man called David Livingstone who visited this area and found some people who told him it is called Mosi-oa-Tunya and he couldn't comprehend. He named it after his Queen Victoria Falls who was sitting somewhere back there in his country. If we advertise saying visit Mosi-oa-Tunya you don't come, but if we say come to Victoria Falls you come. That is the tragedy of Africa," said Mnangagwa.
Actually the real tragedy of Africa is that we, especially our domineering "Misstra Know It All" leaders, make mountains out of mole-hills.
If calling the falls, Victoria Falls brings in tourists in the hundreds the and with them the wealth to the local community and the nation at large; and calling it Mosi-oa-Tunya only brings in a few tourists. Then call it Victoria Falls.
It was China's Chairman Deng Xiaoping who famously said "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
Many Africans' anti-West rhetoric is the antithesis of the inferiority complex brought on by the white supremacists' racist rhetoric. The rhetoric has become an obsession admitting failure in anything, even in the face of a mountain of evidence to prove the failure, is tantamount to acknowledging one's racial inferiority.
Of course, that is nonsense because we all make mistakes regardless of our race, gender, etc. And therefore to refuse to being fallible is to refuse to being human. It is bad enough for an individual to bury one's head in the sand and refuse to admit to one's failures but when the individual is in a position of power and authority, is a national leader, the consequences of a nation blundering from pillar to post will drag the whole nation into the gutter!
41 years and counting of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness has dragged Zimbabwe deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have usurped the people's freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. And so Zanu PF has dragged the nation into this hell-hole and we, the people have been helpless to stop it.
Mnangagwa said Pan Africa Postal Union should play a developmental role in uplifting standards of living in line with aspirations of the Africa Union's Agenda 2063.
Typical, he is always looking into the distant future, chasing a mirage; he will not talk about the present of the historic past because he knows they all point to a totally, totally different future to Africa's cuckoo land Agenda 2063!
By ignoring the present and the past Africa is failing to learn from the past and so is making the same foolish mistakes over and over again. Problems that should be nipped in the bud are allowed to grown out of proportion.
For example, Zimbabwe has swept corruption under the carpet for decades and now it has become so rampant, it is overwhelming the nation. A recent Auditor General report revealed that only 1% of US$4.5 billion in cash and material donated to the Cyclone Ida relief was put to good use the rest was looted or wasted. The country's future is grime, given such criminal waste of human and material resources.
Many independent African countries now look at the colonial years with begrudging nostalgia as the country's golden age. It is a damning testimonial of independent Africa's failure to govern ourselves.
Africa is being dragged back into the dark-ages not by Africans leaders who inflated ego and overarching inferiority complex will not allow them to admit they are fallible and are therefore subject to democratic scrutiny and accountability. They will not allow regime change because, to them, that is tantamount to "looking down upon themselves"!
The day Zimbabwe is able to hold free, fair and credible elections will be the greatest day in the country's history because it will mark the day the country has finally emerged from the dark of corruption and tyranny into the light of freedom and democracy. That will be a quantum leap and one Zanu PF is hell bend on resisting at all cost!
Source - zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
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