Public Agenda (Accra)

Zimbabwe: One Year On - Why Obama Has Failed Africa Vol. 3

opinion

Today we see Zimbabwe being attacked by United States (US) and British media terrorism. Their attack is under the guise of bringing "democracy" to Zimbabwe, led by US imperialist fronts like, the National Endowment for Democracy and the British Westminster, friends of Zimbabwe. In reality what they mean by democracy is "bourgeois democracy." According the great late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, under bourgeois democracy, "freedom is confined to the political sphere, and has no relevance to economic matters."

Many Africans have been deceived by the imperialist doctrine of bourgeois democracy, as a result of constant imperialist propaganda. Lenin said that dialectics show "...under what conditions [opposites] are identical, transforming themselves into one another..." This can be applied to Zimbabwe's elections to determine what conditions take free and fair into the category of un-free and un-fair. The American led imperialist assault on Zimbabwe's economy, using US/EU sanctions, has created mass poverty and hunger within Zimbabwe. The American led imperialists have invested massive amounts of capital to develop a surrogate force within Zimbabwe, the MDC.

For those readers who do not know the MDC is a "political party that was set up, funded and instituted by the West to serve their needs in Zimbabwe under the guise of democracy using their stooge Morgan Tsvangarai.

American and western imperialism and its surrogate, the MDC, have harmonized their propaganda to blame Zanu-PF for the hunger and poverty created by the MDC/US/EU sanctions; all financed by the US/EU capitalist class. They have also conveyed to the people that voting for MDC, the puppet of the US/EU, is the key to stopping the economic assault, and the resultant hunger and poverty.

The West controls the productive forces in Zimbabwe (mines, banks, industries) and Zanu-PF is making a move to control those very forces with the Afrikanization and empowerment policies. Under these circumstances, American/Western aggression and infiltration, economic sanctions, media terrorism, and antagonism over the productive forces, Zimbabwe elections can not be considered free and fair. In reality Zimbabwe represents the front line in Africa's just war against US led neo-colonialism.

US imperialism is playing a vicious game on Africa. They use military aggression and CIA overthrows to gain control of Africa's resources. They put a vassal class in power over Africa's people to facilitate the expropriation of Africa's resources and the exploitation of Africa's labor.

They confine African political activity to voting on who will facilitate our exploitation for American Imperialism. They attack revolutionary and progressive forces, using bourgeois democracy and terrorism, propaganda, to establish moral authority. They disguise American imperialist puppets as independent leaders.

Why is the US, EU and Britain interested in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is endowed with Uranium, Platinum, Chrome, Gold, Diamonds, Methane Gas, Coal, asbestos, copper, nickel, iron ore, tobacco, and cotton. US imperialism sees Tsvangarai's MDC as the weapon to stop the people of Zimbabwe's advance on these valuable resources.

Morgan and the MDC are tools for American/Western robbery in Zimbabwe and this is why the US and UK are hell bent on the destruction of the unity government (America and the west never wanted the unity government in the first place) of Zimbabwe and the real agenda of the US under the Bush administration and now Obama is regime change with Mugabe completely out of the frame. They will not succeed in their nefarious plans.

Mugabe strikes imperialism

President Mugabe has seized Afrikan land from a European Settler Colonial State for the first time in history. This is unprecedented and one of the greatest accomplishments in modern history. It also exposes the hypocrisy of settler colonial occupations in Namibia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, North America, and Israel, posturing as champions of democracy. Native Americans in the US and Aborigines in Australia clearly have no vote on how they see fit to control their own land and resources, which is real democracy.

President Mugabe has also instituted Afrikanization and economic empowerment policies in Zimbabwe (something the West especially America and Britain do not like). Policies which are putting the Afrikan people of Zimbabwe in economic control of Zimbabwe's means of producing wealth and economy by requiring by law that indigenous Zimbabweans own at least 51% of the key resources, banks, and industries in Zimbabwe. How would the imperialist react if this was done in neo-colonial Ghana today?

In other words, he is standing up to US Neo-Colonialism and saying NO to the status quo. This is a great example for all of Africa and the world.

So given a thorough and critical analysis of the above it is fair to say that President Barack Hussein Obama has failed Afrika and failed miserably. If during his next few years as President, Obama fails to take the bull by the horn and engage in policies that will truly emancipate Afrika from the scourge and dehumanizing effects of Western imperialism, the Obama will not have failed this generation of Afrikans who had high expectations of him, but also future generations of Afrikans and history WILL NEVER forgive Obama for squandering an historic duty and opportunity to engage with Afrika in true Freedom, Justice and Equality.


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  • Muchenjeri
    Feb 8 2010, 12:01

    I'm sure we shouldn't offend but this writer is an ignorant idiot.

  • krrosst
    Feb 8 2010, 14:31

    No offence, but let me have a say. I am a Zimbabwean living outside Zimbabwe because the government of Robert Mugabe has failed me. What does the US, EU or West have to do with the failings of Zimbabwe. Why not mention China, which is heavily involved in pilfering the mineral wealth that Zimbabwe has.

    Surely, the author of this article is a first class IDIOT! I rest my case.

  • africa35
    Feb 12 2010, 14:13

    even Zimbabwean's are saying this writer is a idiot but wow if you can write for this paper their standards are very low. Fellow Zimbabweans are saying the problems within Zim have been caused by those inside of Zim aka Mugabe and the Zanu-PF.

  • rafil
    Feb 8 2010, 14:49

    This is an awesome clarification of events in Zimbabwe/Africa.Thanks a million times writer for going to the point and emancipating one more African and hopefully many more.The real reason for the fight against Zimbabwe has been clear for some time,propaganda machines of the west will not help when it,s time for the chickens to come home and roost. This write-up is a vivid depiction of our life as Africans and we must wake up and take our destiny in our own hands.Peace onto Africa and damn all the evil forces, open and covert, working assiduously to bring her down and steal from her. Extremely wonderful post.

  • George Warren
    Feb 9 2010, 15:50

    Hey rafiki, do you even know what you are talking about, Africa has failed Obama, he came with the ideas and Africa rejected his plans, silly boy.

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