How Did the Shenanigans Start?

(From Mmegi / The Reporter (Botswana) - AAGM)

Byline: Bugalo A. Chilume

"What one notices is lack of courage ... a kind of surrender to European authority, I suppose it's because of poverty ... none of them will stand up and say to them, 'go to hell'. We shrink in asserting our rights. We need much more courage in the Afrikan Union." - Robert Mugabe, 2006.

At the height of the Rhodesian liberation war, the West loathed Robert Mugabe with unbridled passion, and for good reason; Mugabe was intent on ending the oppression and exploitation of the long-suffering Afrikan masses. Besides political rights, he was fighting for the restoration of the fertile land …