Africa: Introducing Colin Kapernick to Zimbabwe

30 December 2016

For those daughters and sons of Mother Africa at home and abroad who began celebrating Kwanzaa this week, that begins with recognition of the concept of Umoja meaning Unity in Swahili, let us not forget to give President Mugabe and late Vice President and national hero Joshua Nkomo along with the two liberation movements they led on the battlefield, zanu and zapu, much deserved kudos for signing the Unity Accord on December 22, 1987.

Prior to signing the Unity Accord zanu and zapu not only shocked the entire world by trouncing the second most powerful colonial army ever assembled on African soil, but achieved this monumental plateau under the auspices and banner of a patriotic front, which in modern African history is without question one of the most uplifting illustrations of unity both in thought and action we have ever collectively witnessed.

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