By Kwaku
Tafari
Last
Friday, I was invited to deliver a lecture on the topic Mugabe: Freedom Fighter or Dictator at Futa Square in Nima. It was an educative session. I want
to share the bullet points I touched on here. I further explained the points
during the lecture though. Follow and read more on the points raised. Thank
you.
1.
Amilcar Cabral stated in his book Unity and Struggle that
“In all our studies, history is best qualified to reward all research.” On this
basis let me take you slightly into history.
2. It was Kwame Nkrumah,
the one who knows that stated that “Those who would judge us merely by the
heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we
started.”
3. Once upon a time,
there lived a happy people called Matabeleland
with their great king called Lobengula Khumalo. Matabeleland
was named after its people, the Ndebele. Other ethnic groups include Tonga, Kalanga,
Venda, Khoi
Sani, Twana, Xhosa and Zulu.
4. One fine afternoon, a
group of free-booters led by Cecil Rhodes, (a man who had the reasoning that
“the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race”. He
therefore advocated vigorous settler colonialism, describing the country’s
black population as largely “in a state of barbarism” and advocated their
governance as a “subject race” and was at the center of moves to marginalize
them politically. He is a White Supremacist and “an architect of Apartheid)
visited Matabeleland with some few drinks
(snaps), mirror, gun and gun powder and 100 British Pounds and presented it to
the king.
