“Mugabe amazes me a lot” –Nelson Mandela
Sometimes in life we have big dreams and humongous ambition that is capable of making us the world greatest. It’s a beautiful thing. Every
living human has the right to dreaming big and working hard towards achieving
those dreams. Robert Mugabe is however not an exception in this topic of
dreaming big.
- Mugabe, dreamt to be the longest serving President in Africa.
- He dreamt to be President of Zimbabwe till he becomes 100 years of age.
- In fact, he named himself Africa’s grandfather of Independence and Politics.
Mugabe fought for the freedom of Zimbabwe; he was imprisoned
for 10years for his active participation in calling for the country's independence. He led
Zimbabwe’s first political party ZANU to negotiate the abolishment of white supremacy
in a Zimbabwe. Mugabe masterminded the first general election in 1980 where he
led his party to victory and became the prime minister while Canaan Banana was
Head of State. Mugabe became president in 1987 after Banana. “Mugabe loved his
people in his almighty wisdom”. He reclaimed lands controlled by white minority
and gave it to Zimbabweans who are apparently the majority. He fought for
his people and didn’t want them to be enslaved in Zimbabwe by the whites.
Mugabe’s story is almost similar to that of my father who I never met- Nelson
Mandela and by all considerations, he is supposed to be one of the greatest
African that has ever lived but he lost his revolutionary and heroic status by
failing to understand a simple cliché “Leadership is selflessness”.
I can be sure that the biggest thought that rings in Mugabe’s
mind every morning is; “I fought for Zimbabwe, I suffered for Zimbabwe, I
should lead Zimbabwe even in death, and it is my right”. This self-centered
thought made him fade away as a father and a hero into becoming a burden and a
pain to Zimbabwe. Mugabe lost it all.
Mugabe did not leave when the ovation was loudest, he didn’t
understand that there is a time when it is honourable to exit. He was booed out
of the stage and I guess he will be booed forever.
I feel bad that Mugabe was humiliated, but I think it is
long overdue. If Pope Benedict xvi, on the basis of ill health and other things
can retire as the “Papacy” in 2013 to allow the election of Pope Francis ii
then, what is Mugabe’s problem?
“I don’t think anyone should be president for that amount of
time” –President Ian Khama of Botswana.
I hope Mugabe’s life becomes a lasting lesson to us
Africans.
Mr. Mugabe, this is time for you to die and not resurrect
again like you have always done.
“When your big dream starts to impede the progress of other
people (a nation in Mugabe’s case), you need a re-evaluation”- that’s my quote.
Gov. Okorocha Rochas, there is another statue to be made.
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