Chronicle Editor
Stephen Mpofu, Perspective
Sadly enough today, in post-modern Zimbabwe two key exhibits are missed out of the five-day business extravaganza better known as the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair due to end in Bulawayo today.
In the first exhibit the ZITF main arena should have been the scene of a bloody battle for perpetual control of that space between revolutionary sons and daughters of the soil occupying it and those without knees as the indigenous people called the strangers from beyond many waters raring to perpetually subdue the natives and turn them into running dogs as it were.
Airborne and on the ground, the knee-less invaders unleashed all the military wherewithal imaginable against freedom fighters armed with AK-47s, causing blood rivulets to flow but ignoring the bloodshed under a strong satanic belief that they, the invaders, and not their victims held title deeds to the entire world to which the arena and scene of the battles belonged.
However, the compassion of the real title holder of the world intervened and the revolution subdued imperialism with the result that the vanquished invaders retreated to their stands and immediately connived to sabotage food supplies to their conquerors in order to weaken them for a subsequent walk-over victory and permanent occupation of the main arena, their land.
Today’s discourse is about the victory of right over wrong as represented by the armed revolution which vanquished — wrong but only just.
Not wishing to be laughed at, as it were, by the world for their dismal performance against the armed revolution, imperialists decided after their retreat to impose economic sanctions against this country in hopes that, driven by their sufferings, the people of this country would turn against their revolutionary government in preference to the foreigners promising them heaven on earth.
But that was not to be because this earth’s title holder, Jesus Christ who is the way the truth and the life intervened once more by causing our people, a Christian nation to know that Christianity imparts life.
As a result the Second Republic, no doubt at the behest of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ who is himself life, as the Bible says, mounted the ongoing engagement and re-engagement exercise with those seeking to vanquish it and replace it with neo-colonialism which would see Zimbabweans kowtowing to imperialist rulers.
The good news is that some of those nations that wanted our revolutionary government down and out participated in this year’s ZITF, thanks a great deal more to the true title holder of this earth on behalf of His father, the Almighty God.
Now back to the key exhibit absent from ZITF but which must of necessity be part of the trade extravaganzas from next year onwards.
First, liberation historians who have slept on the job for 43 years of our uhuru have deprived post-independence young generations of critical knowledge about how the armed revolution brought us all independence and freedom from those without knees who occupied the land that the title holder of this earth gave back to us, so that they might protect it from invaders as long as they live.
Time is probably long overdue for our government to set up a committee of writers to work with remaining heroes of the armed struggle in producing a history of the war of liberation for those works to occupy a special stand at future ZITFs for foreign exhibitors to also know better about the history of our country.
The second key exhibit should be by political writers of books on the imperatives of national unity for political, economic and social development of our motherland into brave new futures.
What this means is that any wrongs by either those in power or in the opposition should be solved amicably in the interests of national peace and stability and not be used by the opposition as keys to open the house, as it were, for the enemy to enter our house with false promises of providing better governance but which in reality are camouflages of neocolonialism waiting on the wings.
Zimbabwe’s education has a reputation for producing literates second to none on the African continent and, as such, those among us who enjoy creative and other literary gifts must produce works that help the rest of our people to uphold behavioural patterns that promote good governance, peace and stability as catalysts for national development in our motherland and for others to follow our example.
This communicologist humbly believes strongly that exhibitions of the books in-point at the ZITF alongside industrial goods will succeed in selling this country and our uhuru a great deal more to visiting foreigners, helping them or encouraging them, as the case might be in running their own affairs.
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