Britain Does Not Owe Zimbabwe Reparations

Balancing Rocks, Harare, Zimbabwe.

The speaker in this video argues that Britain does not owe any reparations to the countries it colonised as it was welcomed in most of those countries. The prime example of this welcome, according to him, is that; "Sometimes they showed humility, King Lobengula of the Matabeles famously started his first loyal address to Queen Victoria with the words; 'we who are but as lice on the edge of Her Majesty's blanket.'" 

Such condescending attitudes and conceit. 

President Barack Obama Jokes About That All Important Third Term!

AU Chairperson HE Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma with President Barack Obama. Picture Credit: African Union.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

President Barack Obama joked, while addressing the African Union, that he would win if he ran again for the office of President of the United States, but cannot run again, because the Constitution does not allow it and the "law is the law." While his message and joke was delivered without malice, he still overlooks objective conditions and structural constraints that African countries face which are absent in the United States.

Progressive Nationalism: Primus Inter Pares.

I am a Zimbabwean (and will always be).

Having been unable, of necessity, to talk about Zimbabwe for the past few years, I am now able to discuss Zimbabwe in explicit terms. I can now tell everyone where I really stand politically in Zimbabwe. My (re)entry into explicitly discussing all things Zimbabwean will be focused by one question, and one question only: does it serve Zimbabwe? Hence, Progressive Nationalism. 

Progressive Nationalism is the simple idea that everything that a Zimbabwean does should privilege Zimbabwe in its standing among nations. For example, how does externalization of wealth serve Zimbabwe? Will Zimbabwe be held in high esteem because it has people who are proficient at externalization of wealth?

Politicians will try to expropriate this long standing idea of mine for their political campaigns and what-have-you but, here, on this platform, I have the scales to weigh whether their actions match their grand pronouncements. This is what this platform will do initially; scan past, present and (likely) future actions by Zimbabweans as well as other nationalities, and from that mosaic, extract what is useful and what is harmful to Zimbabwe.

But that's not all, because, as Aristotle already told us in Nichomacean Ethics, the end of political science is action not knowledge.