Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Monologue and Musings of a True African Leader

Mugabe - Implications of His Speech at the 26th AU Summit at Addis
Ababa: Monologue and Musings of a True African Leader!

'While Africans revered the skies, the white man built the aero plane
to take charge of the skies. And we taught our children to beg aero
plane to throw down money. When we were trapped in reverence of the
seas the white man built submarines and demystified what we had
succumbed to out of inferiority. While we revered thunder and
lightning as gods, the white man tamed it and drew electricity from
it. Conquer the ignorance in you and ascend to that realm where real
men engage in telepathy'.
Okoro Benedict Chinedum

The argument here is that despite having walked away from official
slavery, Africa is technically undergoing another recolonization
through more complex procedures with our consent. What we think are
achievements merely expose the conscription we live in, our narrowed
perception and infectious ignorance. Africa's path to self redemption
lies with her honest investment in research and education. If
development is by Europe standard, if will take Africa about a million
years, to have perfect grasp and interpretation of what the West has
dubbed development.
There seem to be an impenetrable darkness hovering over the continent
of Africa. This impenetrable darkness is what men like Mugabe, not
minding his human limitations have toiled to unravel. On January 17,
1961 Patrice Lumumba was overthrown and killed in a way that
embarrassed the continent and proved that we don't really matter in
global politics. Ludo De Witte, a Belgian writer worried about the
fate of the continent where most clandestine intelligence operation
have been experimented on, the most daunting being the death of
Patrice Lumumba captioned his book, 'The Most Important Assassination
of 20th Century'. Witte took time to assemble a piece that explain how
the death of Patrice meant the dearth of hope and projection of the
continent. On the 15th October, 1987, Thomas Sankara, a man described
as the moving spirit and reincarnation of Che Guevara in Africa was
murdered in cold blood at the expense of Africa's development, leaving
Ouagadougou in the hands of toddlers. How much has changed since then?
In the way and manner we are treated? Do we really matter in global
affairs? When shall the people who played identifiable roles in the
death of Sankara and Lumumba be tried? Africa is still perceived as
the farmland and its habitants as servants. But, because history is
one thing the black man keeps in abeyance, we have only succeeded in
handing over ignorance from one generation to the next. It is this
pretense and self deceit that all is well with us, because we think we
can speak English, use Facebook, Twitter, internet and discuss about
matches played in Europe between Chelsea and God knows which team is
what Mugabe addressed at Ethiopia. He reminded us that a man whose
ancestors were slaves can't claim to be free born. Of course, he made
the speech on the soil of the only country in Africa that were never
colonized.

But, how come these radical Africa's promising leaders were killed,
but Mandela was spared? And they raised him like the 'son of man' as
our hero, stamped him and handed over to us. Why? I have a quarrels
with some people when our brother Mandela died, I have been vindicated
by Mugabe's daring speech. Mugabe's speech at the 26th AU Summit
should make every right thinking African to settle down for some
serious thought. Mugabe spoke in the language that great leaders speak
to pass on the eternal message without caring whose ox is gored.
Ensconced is his eclectic guts Mugabe threw the hall comprising of 54
African leaders into confusion by querying what is Obama. His question
was quite timely! At least at a time we delude ourselves as black
people that we have arrived with a coloured man in White House. In an
era that most black people feels that Uhuru is here. To them, we have
arrived, our brother is now the President of America. Far from that,
Mugabe in his quintessential erudition and celestial confidence told
Africa leader that Obama is only a voice. Obama is a Western
megaphone! He told the gathering that Obama is an errand boy to some
white bosses. Who must be ordered to take homosexualism to his people
and he jet's into the aircraft. The implication of his speech is that
the black man is still at the base of the ladder. To reconstruct
Africa we must begin with teaching our kids to make sure his/her
teacher doesn't teach him nonsense. Maybe, this may be the last time
Mugabe will speak to us, but this speech is quite peculiar in a time
that ignorance is a cap. How much is our budget for education? What is
our roadmap on education? What is happening to the project that final
year students have been writing before they are awarded degree? Isn't
it a shame that mosquito (as tiny as it is) has conquered Africa. The
whites aren't our problem, our problem is that we are cheap!
Okoro Benedict. C
Intelligence & Security Studies
United Kingdom







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Okoro Chinedum Benedict
Intelligence & Security Studies| School of Politics & Security
University of Salford, The Crescent, M5 4WT, Manchester, United Kingdom