Thoko,
How are you. I hope this post finds you and your family well. Stay strong.
Essays
What are the principal characteristics and functions of Aid in the global system?
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df3gp4zn_0fq4858fh
Globalisation threatens the diversity of local cultures and society. Discuss.
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df3gp4zn_8hbq6w4c5
Above are links to 2 essays I wrote a while back. In fact I have referred you to one of them before. Reading back on your last post I thought it would be a good idea to revisit them. Analysed, they paint a picture of the so-called global political economic system and how it affects the majority world. I have come to realise however, that the way issues such as these are perceived back home if they are perceived at all is vastly different from the international view. An Iranian friend observes the same. Properly studied the idea that ‘our struggles in Africa and Zimbabwe have gone past the stage of the so called super powers of the European countries because most African countries are now independent’ is the greatest example of this difference in perception and is the result of an illusion centuries old. Africans think they are free. If they truly were, the current world map which emphasises the geo-political interest of Western powers wouldn’t be the same one cobbled up during the ‘Scramble for Africa’ in the 19th century. All African countries as it stands are a construct created by western politicians, cartographers, banks, corporations to facilitate the exploitation of African nature and people back then and this is still maintained today, nothing more. If Africa and Africans were free we would loath the use of constructs to define us. Certainly the idea of Rhodesia was created by Cecil Rhodes – it is a construct. We have to ask ourselves seriously how the idea of Zimbabwe is different. If we were truly free would it exist or would all of ‘Africa’ be one with its different peoples free to move about as they wish without friction at one with nature according to our ancient teaching. But look it does, and many Zimbabweans ironically claim to be free in the prison of Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe for political correctness. If Zimbabwe was free the continued exploitation of her people and her nature (termed natural resources) through deceit and imperialism would have seized in 1980. Free!!my ass!! And today so called africans endorse the global trade in natural resources and the african is still seen as a source of cheap labour everywhere you go in this world even in his own ‘country’. It would appear we are more that willing to be used. Many have become kings on the back of our hard labour. This continues to happen and is happening at this very moment. By accepting the idea of countries ‘Africans have made the ultimate compromise as the continued existence of the idea makes it much easier for the powers that be to exploit Africa’s nature and people. We ‘Zimbabweans’ now even have a Prime Minister and a ‘global political agreement’ to endorse the construct. If Black People where free we would all be Black People (Vanhu Vatema) and not insist on being defined as African let alone Zimbabwean, Zambian, Angolan, Tanzanian, Black American. We should be seeking a day of collective independence as a people. Africa ndiyo yacho Nyika yedu. Musha wedu. The ‘African Village’ as you put it. Naizvozvo Nyika ndiyo yatinoziva. Izwi rokutiAfrica rakauya kwatiri nengarava. Ndizvo? Vanonyora inonzi’etymology’ vangatsamwe namashoko aya asi chokwadi ndechokuti hapana anoziva. AsiNyika yedu hatichaiziva pamusaka pezvinonzi maborder uye kwesekwatinoenda kunevatema sesu vanoti vakasiyana nesu isu tichiziva kuti tinaAmai vamwe chete - hausi huroyi hwamadhunamutuna here iwowo? NeHunhu hwedu tichararama. Munhu anozivikanwa neHunhu hwake ka, sekungozivikanwa kunoitwa imbwa nehumbwa hwayo. Chokwadi hupenyu murimuka ramadhunamutuna rinoshandura munhu kuitambwa chaiyoyo…asi anoziva anotanga nokuzivaHunhu hwake. The idea of country specific independence served it’s purpose a long time ago and has gradually become defunct. The emancipation of all Black people is the necessity and to do this we do not need anyone else but to readjust our consciousness to understand the tyrany of money which is the prime motivation behind the exploitation of ‘Africa’ and it’s nature and people (termed natural resources). If we are not careful we’ll end up back in the cane fields cutting sugar cane for pennies to sweeten European tea grown on our exploited mountains in Tanganda and to fuel their cars - and this is already happening to our brothers and sisters lost in Brazil -oh no, it has been happening to us in ‘free zimbabwe’ for years, the guys in ‘brazil’ are just more efficient at it. In fact the more you look at it, Black People did not freely choose these definitions, they were and are still imposed and they are indeed the source of our lack of freedom. So….’most African countries are independent’….there is an inbuilt conflict in that statement alone which is obvious. Moreover even if we choose to accept the idea of an African country we will realise even more so that the fact that most countries are affiliated to the certain global institutions the idea of their independence is absurd. You can’t be puppet and claim to me independent ask Pinocchio - you will rather, always wish you were a real boy and because of that….I’m afraid you will never be you. Even then, it was Pinocchio’s freedom from the strings controlling his behaviour that allowed him to develop the consciousness to wish he was a real boy. The present dynamic of ‘African’ power was decided during the scramble for Africa by imperialist powers and those strings determining our behaviour were never severed. As long as this is maintained Black People might as well forget freedom. ‘We must fight’ and there are clever ways to do this which do not involve the gun or violence - true glory is in truth and non violence - ask, the Spirit of Chaminuka says so. While on conflict, contemporary theory on ‘conflict transformation’ is what leads many from the west to create conflict with the express aim of changing the nature of traditional cultures and the more you study this trend the more you realise that many conflicts around the world revolve around this theory, with the supposedly good intentions of NGOs (usually staffed by locals with international training) and aid workers providing the stimulus for conflict. In fact a vast chasm exists between domestic and international perception, given for the most part indigenous peoples world wide, Africans particularly are very nationalistic, maintain their adoption of western christianity at the expense of their traditions, continue to adopt european names and give them to their children (I being one such child) and are still very trusting of international Institutions particularly Bretton Woods Institutions and the Vatican despite their use as a tool to facilitate the covert maintenance of an unequal system through various manipulative mechanisms - Aid being one issue I delve into in greater detail in one of the essays attached. I only say this because the idea of western christianity was given to the majority of Black people in many cases by force (the Kebra Negast from the pre colonial Ethiopian Orthodox Church - Yäityop’ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan exists for Africans with a preference for christianity but few care or know about it). It’s not a surprise really because most indigenous governments have maintained and improved the same institutions, laws and policies designed by imperialists to breed ignorance. It’s unbelievable but even today Roman-Dutch Law and the prison system persist in Zimbabwe and in many other ‘African Countries’ yet we still claim to be free. The very Law (and the entire legal system) isn’t even of our own making let alone the political system. The education system is by design not meant to educate the masses about the real mechanism of reality. Most if not all African ‘leaders’ (by this usually people mean Presidents, Ministers and the like) like many leaders around the world as long as they continue to be an integral part of these global institutions have no power to drive policies in favour of the people they allegedly govern. They shall remain condemned to the status of pawns with no prospect of even becoming queens - in short, in this system, they have no balls and have no chance of ever having them - all policy comes from the top down in this system - i.e. from the Bretton Woods Institutions filtering down, hence the crippling effects of economic structural adjustment programs during the 1990s (ESAP), passed down to us from the neo-liberal policy which dominates these global institutions. The revolution was sold out a long time ago or in your words the ‘compromise’ was facilitated a long time ago - either that or our so called leaders were tricked badly and that wouldn’t be the first and last time either…Wasn’t Lobengula tricked into signing the Rudd Concession…. and was it not his trusted right hand man who was bribed with bags of gold coins manufactured from african gold, into convincing him to sign the paper which would ultimately lead us here. Make no mistake about it, current political tomfoolery is the tool needed to confuse and prevent the masses from revolting. Ours is a history packed with sell outs, the exploitation of nature and slavery at the hands of conquerers from yonder. In fact politicians from the majority world through their new found belief in paper now merely serve as facilitators in the distribution of contracts (concessions) to multinational corporations such as Rio Tinto and Monsanto financed by big banking corporations such as Barclays, J.P Morgan Deutsche Bank, Citi Bank etc etc in the continued exploitation of nature and people (termed ‘natural resources’). In exchange they receive large quantities of printed paper called money. Sometimes new ‘zeros’ mysteriously appear in their electronic bank accounts. To generate money these institutions and their agents claim they have to kill nature and indeed they do. This is happening everywhere, from South Africa and Zimbabwe all the way to Brazil and Mauritania. It is this same reasoning which bankrupted Europe and exhausted all it’s natural resources caused untold poverty leading many to cannibalism and killed many people and animals through catastrophic wars culminating in the massive poverty which in turn forced her to resort to the evil of imperialism/colonialism. Under today’s neo imperialism/colonialism Indigenous peoples - the masses are merely a source of cheap flexible labour and in their poverty, chaos has created an insanity which leads to tribal conflict and black on black criminality… and this as seen by those at the top, is a desired effect - ‘divide and conquer’ - Irish history will tell you all about how this is supposed to play out. You have heard the word ‘Povho/ Povo’ being used to describe the masses as those affected by poverty. A divided people is an exploited and conquered people…and an exploited and conquered people forms the very basis of the Global Political Economic System. Its unequal structure with 30 OECD countries (the so called richest if we choose to accept Adam Smith’s definition of wealth) at the top and 160 countries at the bottom is elaborated on in the first essay hyperlinked above and below. And if you want to see the potential of the previously exploited to exploit their own because of greed and money look at China and its many ‘factories’ today since the English Industrial Revolution moved there. Ironically many urban Africans in their ignorance love labelled clothing most of which comes from the exploited masses of China. Unfortunately, in these times all government is corrupt! We were given cattle for a reason and at least 10000 years of documented African history proves that. I like the phrase ‘putting African Village in order’. And I know you mentioned the tendency to blame but there is no blame being dished out here – merely the harsh cold reality of the system which few see and the majority fall victim.
For those who have ears and eyes vakomana veMbira Dzenharira put it across with precision.
Madhunamutuna amaitaura akazouya
Zvavakauya vakaponda ponda harahwa dzenyu
Zvavakauya vakapindapinda muninga dzenyu
Vapedza zvavo vakasandura mazita edu
Musoro waChinengundu kutakura kuenda nawo
Tsvimbo yaMukwati takazoshinga tikaitevera
Ndarama yedu vakachera vakadikitira
Nyika yedu vakagovana kuita madiro
Mhandara dzedu vakagovana chimanda hapana
Mapfupa angu vachazopfuka Nehanda waireva
Vanavangu woye ndangandichiti magarira imi.
Pasipamera madhunamutuna.
Zvavakaramba vakakavara takavabangura
Tavarova vakarangana zvokutinyengedza
Chembere dzanaHatsvigiri kuuraya hapana
Nhorowondo dzenyu pasi tsvwe pfungwa pamari iwe
Harahwa misoro muzvikari matare hakuna
Nyika yoita rubvanzi bvanzi kudya kwemhumhi iwe
Pasipamera madhunamutuna
Chaminuka we huya uzowona zviripano.
Madhunamutuna chenjera unopondewa!
Regardless, I shall take you up on your promise to collaborate.
They called me ‘Andrew Tafadzwa Sanyangore - an African’
Essays
What are the principal characteristics and functions of Aid in the global system?
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df3gp4zn_0fq4858fh
Globalisation threatens the diversity of local cultures and society. Discuss.
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df3gp4zn_8hbq6w4c5
