By Neba-Fuh
Egypt's resort town of Sharm El Sheikh is host to the world's most
dreaded dictators meeting under the banner of the African Union Summit.
Amongst them is Zimbabwe's junta leader Robert Mugabe, who recently
hijacked people's power by performing a one-man -show , after constantly
intimidating his challenger-Morgan Tsvangirai and his supporters resulting to deaths, in a run-off 'election'
that was a clear slaughter of democracy.
A once respected African
liberation hero, Mugabe is now defecating on the platform that
projected him to the apex of the list of African liberation fighters. An
octogenarian like Robert Mugabe should be enjoying a well-deserved
rest just like his contemporary-living legend and ace freedom fighter-
Madiba Nelson Mandela is doing.
Mugabe is exhibiting a severe case of senility, that is not only disgracing his family, the Zimbabwean people, but Africa as a whole.
His argument of indispensability by purporting that the British and Americans will recolonize Zimbabwe if he leaves power is a tragic symptom of wisdom's cramp. We know the unmistakable treachery that these two Western Powers have plunged the world into, but for an 84 year- old African dictator to present the above as an excuse to rig elections in order to rule a nation already suffering a more than 355,000% inflation rate is the first major joke of the 21st century. Africa's sufferings have been exacerbated by the continual clinging to power by people like Mugabe. He is just one of the many oligarchs, that has plundered Africa's riches, leaving the masses miserably helpless. That's why he had the guts to threaten fellow African dictators after his flawed run-off 'election' just before the summit, by saying that: he was waiting to see that finger that will point at him-that dirty finger from an African leader that thinks it is clean. Mugabe could never have been wrong! Which finger could really point at Mugabe? Is it the host Hosni Mubarak's 27years-in- power- finger or Gabon's Bongo's 41years-in-power-finger? Is it Libya's Qadhafi's 38years-in-power finger? Just to name these few.
On the eve of
this summit, celebrations marking Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday
kickstarted in London's Hyde Park with a star-studded concert.
Political and entertainment gurus rallied to pay homage to what real
African leadership is suppose to mean. A man whose choices and
decisions are guided by service and sacrifice. A man whose vision of
Africa is not enshrined in the vice of greed . A man who would rather perish
in prison than live in a society where freedom was a privilege, not
a right. A man whose captors would assemble to applaud his bravery. A
man who demystified the notion that all African leaders cling to power until power kicks them off. This
is Mandela -the anti apartheid prisoner who became President! He
represents a whole lot of African visionaries who did not have the
opportunity to clock 90 like him: Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Um
Nyobe, etc.
They craved for a united Africa out of love , not out of greed like the 'dregs' we have today.
Egypt's summit is another rendez-vous for dim-witted cronies, some of whom are constantly worried about changing their diapers because of old age than concentrating on the issues they have plunged Africa into. Instead of them worried on how to push the Millennium Development Goals(MDG), they might be caught up with the Zimbabwe saga-Election rigging and manipulation-something most of them are guilty of. Who could point that finger ? The young African rulers who could have been the innovative think tank of those old recalcitrant guards, are nothing more than monarchical derivatives -The Kabilas and the Eyademas, still troubled by Dads' poisoned genes.
The dregs of African leadership deserve their place in the dustbin! Even though some of these rulers have embezzled the peoples' money equivalent to multiple budgets of their nations, we still plead that they recognize that they cannot form any valuable solution to the numerous problems they have plunged this great continent into. Africa- the richest continent in the universe has become an economic eyesore. A peoples' destiny held hostage by a greedy few. Their rule is nothing more than a movie shot without a director . They will be strangled by their own web!
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