Monday, 30 June 2008

POLITICS,POWER AND PAINS

An African adage once said ¨¨A man that swallows the palm kernel seed should consider the hole in his anus¨¨Africa has a very rich heritage, culture and language which I am very proud of, most at times I refer to these adages to guide and retrace my steps when I am going astray. the African adage to me is just like reading the Christian bible daily for guidelines, with such rich cultural heritage, I stop and wonder why most African leaders tends towards tyranny, kleptocracy, nepotism etc.Humans naturally are very greedy specie of animals, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, almost the world as a whole has a monarchical ruler, now this monarchs believes their position is eternal or an inheritance, when they dies their children takes over, now what am I driving at? Queen Elizabeth have been on the throne before I was born and she is still ruling, though with a prime minister as a result of the new madness called democracy, other European countries too still maintains the traditional form of government.Furthermore, as an African, I know that there are traditional rulers too with the same rules like queen Elizabeth, Rey Juan Carlos and the likes, but with colonialism how do the colonialist expect their African counterpart to understand the rules? A warrant officer during colonial government with little education and more of military training will never understand human right rules and the likes, kings are never voted for, so how do you expect the likes of Robert Mugabe to leave his post as president. In 1970 legislative and presidential election was held and Mobutu won 99% of the popular vote in an election where voting was compulsory and he was the sole candidate. He was re-elected in single-candidate elections in 1977 and 1984.Yesterday history repeated itself,Mughabe the sole candidate got majority of Zimbabwean vote, also history too will yet repeat it self when Mr. Mugabe’s reign and life will end like Idi Amin of Uganda, Charles Taylor of Liberia and Gen Sanni Abacha of Nigeria. A MAN THAT BRINGS ANT INFESTED FAGGOT TO HIS HOME SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISE WHEN HE IS VISITED BY THE LIZARD!!!!!!!!!!

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