The collective fear of all Zimbos has reached frightening levels: Part 1!

Be afraid, be very afraid too! This clarion call obtains from casual and scientific observations which are easily supported by empirical evidence in our historical timelines post-independence as very frightening indeed to the people of the whole world! How have Zimbabweans as a whole nation reached such extreme end-points of collective fear? The unparalleled magnitudes of the collective fear indeed defies all the intellectual logic of even the best "non-Grace Mugabed" PhD holders and Professors from the top universities in the world, inclusive of competent political scientists!

We have once again broken another infamous record in the genius book of records! This moment in time it has to be a record of being the most illiterate nation in terms of the SUBJECT OF FEAR! If indeed it was such an easy subject matter for our people to understand, then even a supposedly literate individual walking aimlessly (as there is currently no benefit of doubt such a person can't be searching for employment) in the dusty and deeply potholed streets of Zimbabwe could have well understood the subject by now together with its grave consequences. But alas, it can't be taught and learnt in schools or universities. Throughout history nations have come to take pride in collective courage of its civilians, youth and definitely its soldiers. The same definitely can't be said about Zimbabweans without going through a lot of excruciatingly great pains for some sort of explanations for our national dilemma.

Of course, in one of the official indigenous languages of the country we say, "Kwabo kagwala akulasililo". It literally translates to say that sometimes ‘discretion is better than valour', but the expected level of discretion especially as a supposedly "educated" people should have reliably informed us some years ago that our decades-long challenges were now beyond capabilities of a mere discretion. It definitely long required of the properly guided and organised action by people of genuine valour, including in a collective manner especially from the young population.

Any nation will always be at the same level as the state of courage and ambitions of its own young people. This is in no way similar to inciting ordinary people to run to the streets to unnecessarily throw misguided "tantrums" at whoever is in the top echelons of power. Instead, this is to say that it is high time Zimbabweans perfectly mastered the art of complaining, science of collective courage and ultimate power of true general (democratic) will. Although peace is not necessarily the absence of war, it is still correct to say Zimbabweans could be counted as part of the peace-loving people of the world. As Bob Marley has the lyrics "fear is my only courage" in one of his songs, the people now deserve leaders who are able to transform such collective fear into valour that will be an essential ingredient to deliver a new but sustainable Zimbabwe we all want. Hence, the nation cannot look any further than ZIM-ID in search of people with such leadership qualities!

Youth, especially of firebrand status, are also known the world over to have quickly changed or influenced the course of history that seemingly couldn't match the trajectory of their desired future livelihoods when still at its infancy and starting points through active participation in activities that demand of their precious time or invaluable sacrifices. Unfortunately, such young people of valour are not yet even a minority but one can count them with only the help of just fingers. Also, take a minute to listen to or observe the severe groaning, grumbling and silent tears by most Zimbabweans in general "behind closed doors" including from the arm-chair revolutionaries; then you will know that cowardice indeed has no crown in heaven and in this world.

The greatest battle or real "Third Chimurenga/Umvukela III" needed at the moment for Zimbabweans is to first overcome the fear factor. In the interest of specifics for illustration purposes, our people fear in exceedingly equal proportions and paradoxically so, things such failure and success, contentment and dreaming bigger, known certainties and unknown eventualities, to be living-being and found dead, and so forth. To explain further, we fear the immediate potential success of the country that we deny it is currently a complete failure, or we fear being killed by rogue state agents for demanding end to death by hunger or poverty, and also fear even shedding of tears being beaten by "Orobayi" yet standing for what is a non-negotiable right, to mention but a few illustrative examples.

Surprisingly, sometimes un-Africanly so, we have become proponents of a theory that the death of so-and-so will ultimately solve all our or my problems! Like really? Could that explain why we have gone to extremes to wield for use such evil weapons which are enemies of life so that we take it to our own hands to "decide" who must live and who must die? Even Darwinism, not that l ever believed in it in any day, will never classify such practices as satisfying any of the processes of its idea of "natural selection".

Biblically, for a predominantly Christian nation that Zimbabwe is believed to be, we should have heard by now not only from bible scholars but even from fly-by-night preachers that there are more than 365 "FEAR NOT" commands by God (For I AM with you) in the holy book. Which means having a FEAR NOT for each day in each year, and still remain with more to spare! Actually, the holy book speaks so glowingly about death or being prepared to die for an ideal especially to Christian-faith keepers especially when it says, "don't be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul". (Matthew 10:28).