Mugabe is pan-Africanism’s worst enemy

If Africa is committed to PAN Africanism, they did not show it by making Robert Mugabe chair of the AU.

Well, we know it was a revolving position; but we down here in Zimbabwe got so excited about it like he had won an election. Pity, it probably would have been the first legitimate election he ever won. The first maxim in nation-building is that ‘for a nation to arise tribes must die’. Unless a bunch of people, collectively decide ‘look, this collection of sorts is worth more than a tribe; unless we can agree that our best interest lie in being Zimbabwean and not Tonga or Ndebele,’ then we cannot build a nation. More...

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