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You’d be hard-pressed to find a Black commentator who criticized late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms of the early 2000s more than I did. However, the backlash from other Black commentators was such that, if I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought I was betraying my race. Meanwhile, it was plain for all to… Read more.
Frankly, this could not have happened to a nicer strongman. Early Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Sibusiso Moyo, Zimbabwe’s army chief of staff, denied on state TV that the military had overthrown longtime President Robert Mugabe, despite tanks in the streets and reports of explosions and gunfire. The ruling ZANU-PF party later tweeted that former Vice President… Read more.
The following is an excerpt from “Zimbabweans Pray for Liberation from their Liberator, Robert Mugabe,” March 29, 2005. It attests to my abiding lamentation on President Mugabe’s willful intent to ruin his country’s farmland and, by extension, its agrarian economy – all in the name of Black liberation. __________________ The Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt, dysfunctional,… Read more.
You would be hard-pressed to find a non-African (or even a non-Zimbabwean) who has decried Robert Mugabe’s rule more than I. Here are two illustrative excerpts from the many commentaries I’ve written on point. __________________ From “Zimbabweans Pray for Liberation from their Liberator – Robert Mugabe,” March 29, 2005. The Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt,… Read more.
Truth be told, the only thing newsworthy about Wednesday’s general elections in Zimbabwe is how peaceful they were. It certainly came as no surprise when the state Election Commission announced today that President Robert Mugabe was re-elected with 61 percent of the popular vote over Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who garnered only 33. No less… Read more.
Last year I joined the chorus of political commentators all over the world in hailing the coalition government between President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party as the best hope for democracy in Zimbabwe. And we did so knowing full well that this coalition… Read more.
One of the potential hazards of publishing online commentaries is that it’s very easy for experts on any subject you’re writing about to expose you as an uninformed fool. In fact, I know extremely intelligent people who refuse to even submit online comments out fear of having them undermined by more informed comments. Therefore, I… Read more.
Sadly, nobody will be surprised by the word association of basket case and contagion with Africa. Moreover, I am acutely aware that bailout fatigue to save the American economy makes pleas to bail out any African economy seem foolhardy. Not to mention reports that a record number of Americans (31.5 million) now rely on food stamps.… Read more.
Like Kibaki and his ruling party [in Kenya], all indications are that Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party lost close national elections that were held on March 29. Yet, like Kibaki, Mugabe refused to concede defeat, which also plunged Zimbabwe into post-election violence…. Therefore, it behooves Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic… Read more.
Nobody who knows Mugabe can possibly believe that he will ever accept defeat at the polls. After all, this man is a genocidal megalomaniac who is congenitally disposed to war. Therefore, it will take a war, the likes of which Africa has not seen in years, to wrest power from his hands. [Mugabe makes a… Read more.
