Chronicle Editor
Stephen Mpofu
Where is our liberation history in official black and white to catalyse and authenticate patriotism by born frees and others ad infinitum.
Many people, among them this communicologist, have been asking this question when some years after independence, our now late former president Robert Mugabe had announced that a panel of historians and former liberation would be set up to immortalise our country’s liberation history that freed our motherland from British colonial rule in 1980.
But when nothing more was publicly announced about the historical panel some if not many people might have thought that the idea had been interred with the late president’s remains.
But this was not to be with comrade Mugabe’s fellow committed revolutionaries still in the Second Republic government and the Heritage-Based Education 5.0 curriculum, now an integral part of Zimbabwe’s education as well as the African museum now at an advanced stage in Harare, are indisputable proofs that the Second Republic government remains set on correcting distortions of our Zimbabwean identity as well as the identities of other Africans with the African museum set to provide treasurable souvenirs to foreign visitors to our country.
It therefore goes without saying that the Heritage based Education 5.0 curriculum is a manifestation of our Government’s mantra which, as President Mnangagwa has often stated, exhorts Zimbabweans to build their own country.
One hopes therefore that the heritage-based curriculum has the wherewithal to empower graduates with the relevant skills for the economic, political and social development for all in this country in brave new futures.
On the other hand, the African museum in Harare will provide to overseas visitors and/or tourists a comprehensive picture of what treasurable artefacts African countries can provide to the rest of the world.
In the final analysis Zimbabweans ought to be proud of who and what their country is to the rest of the global village.
Unfortunately there exists in the diaspora some Zimbabwean imperialist stooges and sell-outs who stop at nothing in soiling the freedom and patriotism of fellow Zimbabweans back home.
For instance, when after last year’s general elections, the American embassy in Harare said it would encourage a return of American investors to Zimbabwe, some Zimbabweans in the United States were busy telling the Voice of America radio’s Studio-7 for Africa that Zanu-Pf’s victory in the general elections was not anything worth celebrating.
Such critics of the Second Republic here would no doubt prefer having Zimbabwe as a neo-colonial state for them to return home.
Of course those men and other imperialist stooges should not be allowed to discourage potential investors from doing business with our democratic state for the good of their fellow natives and us.
Online Reporter