Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on
the 21st February, 1924 in Kutama, Zimbabwe and married to Grace
Mugabe the are blessed with four children’s.
Mugabe was a Pan African leader
who liberate the Zimbabwean’s and he has been praised as a revolutionary hero
of the African liberation struggle who helped to free Zimbabwe from British
colonialism, imperialism, white minority rule and neo colonialism of all kind.
The story of Robert Mugabe is a microcosm of what bedevils African democracy
and economic recovery at the beginning of the 21st century. It is a classic
case of a genuine hero the guerrilla idol who conquered the country's former
leader and his white supremacist regime.
Mugabe chaired the Zimbabwe
African National Union (ZANU) group from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor
political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017.
Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified
as a Marxist–Leninist, although after the 1990s self-identified only as a
socialist. His policies have been described as Mugabeism
Mugabe took his oath of office on
17 April 1980. He gave a speech at Salisbury's Rufaro Stadium announcing that
Rhodesia would be renamed "Zimbabwe" and pledged racial
reconciliation. Soames aided Mugabe in bringing about an orderly transition of
power; for this Mugabe remained grateful, describing Soames as a good friend.
Mugabe unsuccessfully urged Soames to remain in Zimbabwe for several more years,
and also failed to convince the UK to assume a two-year "guiding
role" for his government because most ZANU-PF members lacked experience in
governing. Although ZANU-PF's absolute parliamentary majority allowed them to
rule alone, Mugabe created a government of national unity by inviting members
of rival parties to join his cabinet. Mugabe moved into the Premier's residence
in Salisbury, which he left furnished in the same style as Smith had left it.
(Mugabe's Zimbabwe 2010 documentary).
Though he is old and needs to
retire but must be commended and honor for his tersely efforts for his people
and Africa as a continent than be humiliated beyond all human survival. Adolph
Hitler, Tony Blair, Barack Obama and George W. Bush aren't been humiliated by
their people talk less the world when they have coasted a lot of lost in human
lives beyond all imagination.
Robert Mugabe, who resigned as
Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday, was the last living African head of state who
fought for his country's independence before becoming its leader. Mugabe, 93,
used his aura of liberator from a colonial power to stay in power, but
increasingly became seen as an oppressor. His resignation came days after
Zimbabwe's military took over and detained the veteran leader.
Mugabe was never seen as a
Dictator until he start the Land reform
in Zimbabwe which officially began in
1980 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, as an effort to more
equitably distribute land between Black subsistence farmers and White Zimbabweans
of European ancestry, who had traditionally enjoyed superior political and
economic status.
Mugabe earned international
recognition for education and health initiatives, and the nation steadily grew
its exports of manufactured and agricultural products. Zimbabwe was famous for
its tobacco production, and its weather supported year-round farming.
Until we Africans differentiate
between "help & destruction" by the West, our continent shall
never know peace and until we know what to accept and what not to accept from
the illusive thoughts made for us to believe by the same West, we shall never
see the direction of progress. How old is Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Angela
Merkel, Theresa Maya etc?
Seriously the problem in Africa
not the length or duration our leaders rule, take for example modern day
German, the strongest economy in Europe, how long has their current Councilor
being ruling nearly 13yrs, China, England itself, Holland, etc. Why are the
democrats not talking about that but instead they fool us, brain wash us and
ask us to go against our leaders so that our leaders see us as enemies of state
and then suppress us in all ways.
The fact is we will not develop
as a continent until we stop pointing
fingers at our leaders and start pointing them on ourselves, then we shall
develop because we will always put our country first before any other thing.
The concept of
dictatorship, brutality, democracy is a tactics used by the west to fight
against the Pan Africanist, and to remove our African heroes to be replace by
puppets who they can control like a remote controller so as to destabilize the
Africa for their own interest.
Therefore for Africa to be the
last place of hope on earth we need to go back to our culture, norms, values and
our policies need to be Mugabified based on the ideology of Mugabification.
To be continued……
By: Saidina Alieu Jarjou
Political Activist
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