Living on Pennies

Please read the history of the Kingdom of The Great Zimbabwe first, and maybe you can have an understanding of how very developed Africa was before its was all stolen and shipped to Europe to develop these parts of the World. When the Greeks were still living in caves, Africans had already started building ships, medicines, mining and all what you know is from Africa. Those are facts, so why twist and hid the genuine history books

Its shows how little history most of the contributors know. Go to any Museum in the Western world, 90% of the artefacts is African, which dates back over a thousand years. Where are the European Artefacts that goes back 700 years at least, even the building. So when we read of such shallow talk we understand that ppeople need to know their past first to appreciate what they took from Africa. All the wealth in Europe was stolen from Africa and you gave Africa your poverty. Read an Report of 1787, Vol.1, by C.F.Volney, Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell just those two for now, and then lets debate after that.

As Europe went through its growing pains before, after, and during the feudal period until after WWII it will take Africa sometime to iron out the wrinkles of modern governance. Africa is too entrenched in tribal cultures to work together cooperatively, but, hopefully they will get a grip on this insane tie-back to the past. Let us not forget that the United States had to endure a bloody conflict on its own soil before it got over the obstacles that tribal, or cultural ties can gnenerate. The south versus the north is still fraught with the potential for conflict due to the fact that they interpret the same thing in different manners. Yet, when it is that the African populace grows tire of the insanity that never fails to accompany tribalism, then, they will roll up their sleves and get rid of those who profit from such madness. A. Jefferson

This may sound racist but it is not ment to be applied on racial terms. The problem, as I view it, with Africa is tribalism and ignorance. Before colonialism, Africa was already in conflict because it was governed by tribal leaders, clans and kingdoms or chiefdoms. This forms of governance is only partially effective in small communities and was only applicable several hundred years ago. The modern world needs a much better form of government to provide for the needs of its people regarding services, education, economic development and security. At one time tribalism and governance based either on religion or kingdoms were effective because populations were small, agricultural or namadic in nature and law and order were managable by a few wise men or women. Today, this type of system is completely incompatible to society to survive in the 21st century. National leaders have to be well educated in economics, public administration, diplomacy, world affairs and technology. Ignorant leaders that rely on the old tribal athoritarian methiods of the past are doomed to failure and will either resort to dictatorships for control or will fail and take many innocent victoms of their countrymen with them. This is what is happening in Zimbabwe and many other African countries today. Post colonial history in Africa has become a sad example of what happens when governance is turned over to people that are unqualified to govern. Sadly, Africa was only been successful when governed by colonists and will continue to stuggle to finds it's way for many decades until an educated population will arise and take power. I hope that I am wrong but I think that, for many countries in the African continent, civil unrest, conflict, poverty, curruption, and failed states will be the normal and not the exception.

If he wants to die in office, can someone please help him get his wish soon?

Mugabe is not the first freedom fighter to take a country down a path of destruction, and he wont be the last. This story seems to fit at some point in time for most of sub Sahara Africa.There seems to always be fighting between warloads, dictators, prime ministers and candidates....

This was the inevitable consequence of allowing one-party rule to take hold, the only way Mugabe leaves is through revolution/army mutiny with a bullet to the head (something he has meted out to many of his opponents).

Zimbabwe is black rule at its worst. The whole post colonial period has been a disaster in Africa. The theft and destruction of white farms began long before there was a Zimbabwe. When Kenya went to black rule, the white highlands a mere 5% of the land which fed the nation was expropriated and destroyed. The whites were expelled from their homes. The experience of post colonial Africa was what caused Ian Smith to declare independence in the then Rhodesia back in 1964. White rule ended around 1980. There was an interim arrangement where whites held 20% of the seats in Parliament. This was a true thorn in the side to Mugabe who is a virulently anti-white racist.

Mugabe didn't actually start expropriating the farms until about 2000. The result is obvious. Even under black rule the white commercial farms of Zimbabwe were a granary which fed the people of the country and had plenty for export which benefitted the nation with foreign currency. Even if a person felt the expropriation of the farms was justified (which it was not) the move should have been done in an orderly way with just compensation. There has been no compensation at all to the former white farmers. And most of the farms were transferred to his cronies where the fields languish in weeds. The real victims of black rule like Mugabe's are the black citizens themselves. The whites can pick up and move away to South Africa or Australia but where can black citizens of Zimbabwe go?

Zimbabweans just cannot cry anymore, for they have no more tears to shed.

Mugabe, the shameless tyrant, must have been completely possessed by the evil spirits of absolute power as to ignore the utter desperation faced by his subjects in abject poverty. Now that he thinks he has successfully crushed the opposition, he gets uglier and uglier, while his iron fists grow heavier and heavier.

The UN seems helpless, so is AU, thus prompting Mugabe to get even madder and wilder. But his day of reckoning could not be that far away.

The question is when he finally vanishes, will there be a new Zimbabwe, free and secure?

Worked there in the late 70's with a group training the rodiesian army, the people wanted there land back
were warned what would happen after there vote, and now they have to live with it. I have no sympathy at
all for them.