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Muchaduraa Dube
If there is one thing which imperial forces have mastered, it is the art of deception; their survival has been a story of lies and chicanery. Their machinations border on preserving their erstwhile privileged role of being the ultimate authority of natural resources wherever their location in the globe. Imperial forces of subjugation walk their talk of having permanent entrenched interests and hardly any permanent friends.
Theirs is to ensure that their people back home in Europe and America are well fed at the expense of mainly the Developing World. Since the advent of modern day civilisation, Europe and America have found Africa as a convenient theatre of operation given the pliability of some of its nationals who are willing agents of these regime change elements. It is important to note that Europe and America’s quest to loot and plunder resources, whatever their form and mode, is not restricted to Africa but it’s global in nature.
Europe and America, in their quest to spread their tentacles in Africa, have found a willing stooge in the form of one Mohammad Ibrahim, a Sudanese born Briton whose so called Ibrahim Foundation has become a convenient tool to derogate and lampoon everything African. Pity on you Ibrahim for being an agent of regime change and de-Africanisation.
Ibrahim Foundation, established in 2006, employs various tools to supposedly define, assess and enhance governance and leadership in Africa; prominent among these is the controversial Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG).
On its website, the Foundation claims that the IIAG is the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data on governance in Africa. Curious though is the revelation on the website that the IIAG compiles information in partnership with ‘‘experts’’ from a number of the continent’s institutions which then gives birth to the annual assessment of governance in every African country. It is from this adulterated information that Zimbabwe, a colossus in paving the African renaissance, is ranked 47 out of the 52 countries that were assessed by the IIAG.
Certainly IIAG has a lot of questions to answer, who are these “experts” from whom information was ascertained? Who does not know that we have intellectual pawns among us whose love for money is unmatched, hence will do anything to please the West as long as the green back is pumped into their pockets. The Foundation funds a number of non-governmental organisations who feeds it with information whose thrust is inimical to the unfolding African economic liberation discourse. Among a host of hostile non-governmental organisations that are recipients of this filthy lucre are Afrobarometer and African Integrity Trust who have become willing tools to subvert the African cause whose core issue is economic upliftment of all and sundry on the continent.
The old adage which has with-stood the test of time, “he who pays the piper calls the tune” naturally resonates to Africans of good standing.
Was it deliberate for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to omit Sudan, the country of birth for the organisation’s founder which is facing challenges in the economic arena and safety of its citizens arising from the constant threats of rebels who have wreaked havoc for Sudan and its neighbour South Sudan? Such acts of blatant partisanship whose sole motive is to derail Africanisation of resources, which are in abundance in the continent, smacks of stinking hypocrisy. These regime change pundits are conscious that if the Zimbabwean success story of agrarian reforms and its broad economic empowerment is replicated elsewhere in the continent, for instance in South Africa and Namibia, the white world’s interests, which are to plunder and loot Africans of their resources will be in jeopardy.
In order for the West to instil fear for those African countries who wish to empower their citizens, Zimbabwe has become the sacrificial lamp by ensuring that it is on their perpetual agenda.
This vilification manifests itself by the constant well orchestrated media onslaught depicting this great nation as a pariah state. The NewsDay article of October 15, 2013 titled ‘Zimbabwe among worst governed countries’ should therefore be viewed in the context of the West’s bid to perpetuate its economic hegemony on the African continent.
It will be interesting for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to explain to the whole world how the likes of South Africa and Libya, just to mention those two, fared better than Zimbabwe in the category of safety and rule of law. Zimbabwe enjoys excellent fraternal relations with the above mentioned sisterly countries but is it not true that Zimbabweans have better safety standards than South Africans and Libyans?
It is public knowledge that violence is ubiquitous in South Africa, comparably only to the United States of America where the gun culture surpasses even war zones. Libya is at war with rebels who have become a menace even to its neighbours.
Then, isn’t it illogical even to the insane to imagine these two sisterly countries being rated above Zimbabweans. This merely goes to expose the double standards used in the rating by this dubious organisation.
Africa will definitely resist and repulse such racist charades which are seemingly packed as objective academic assessment of our social being. The days of portraying Africans as subjects of pity are long gone. Anyone who dares walk on that slippery path can only pursue that at their own peril.
Online Reporter