The Africana Media Blog

The Times today profiled Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, who has become one of the biggest abusers of office in Zimbabwe and has looted and continues to loot the Zimbabwe treasury on his own behalf, and on behalf of his boss, Robert Mugage.

Gono is building a 47 en suite bedroom palace, with a glass swimming pool with underlights, a gym bigger than many good houses in the Zimbabwe capital, a mini-theater and landscaped gardens.  Read how this man lives the life of opulence while the 12 million Zimbabweans suffer.

The Action Congress should re-think their opposit’on to the Yar’Adua’s call to expunge the immunity clause from the constitution.  It smells of opposing something just for the sake of opposition, which have no basis in fact, to use the opposition’s words.  When the President, Vice President, Governors and their deputies, understand that they could not hide behind the immunity clause to brazenly loot their respective states’ treasuries, they will be frightened to moderate their kleptomania.

President Obama is in a position to tell African leaders these tough love statements as their “son”, because he is embarrassed as a black man of Africa being looked upon as a ignorant child by the rest of the world, incapable of taking care of itself.  It is time for tough love.  Obama is very good at that.  During the campaign, he chastised black American leaders for acts unbecoming of good citizenships.  It is the same epiphany he has to bring to Africa.  Anything less would be a failure of his administration.

On that first day of celebrations, the band will accompany me to the Isi Ogwe (village square).  There, I will join with other of my age mates, men and women.  We will proudly be seated in our uniformed outfit, which I have already paid for.  After the gun salutes, the age group will be called upon to officially present whatever they have done for the village.  After the presentation, our names will be called individually to pay a certain amount of money to the village.  Individually, those who can afford it, it is at this juncture that you get up and offer a more substantial sum of money to the village, or agree to individually accomplish a task.