Mark Wadsworth: Robert Mugabe: it's the end of an error

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Robert Mugabe: it's the end of an error

5 comments:

Ian Hills said...: So much for the pile of stones that the locals called "Zimbabwe". Once it was cited as evidence of an ancient black civilisation.

Later it was found to be the ruins of an old Arab slave trading fort, where the locals used to sell other locals, for shipping on to various ports in the Indian Ocean. (It's not that far to the coast.)

Civilisation? I think not.; 11 April 2012 at 21:13
Mark Wadsworth said...: IH, but the other Ian did a fairly good job, despite the underlying current of racism.; 11 April 2012 at 21:16
Anonymous said...: In a sense it's a recurring tragic story. Man wants to solve injustice, but if you don't know how, you just become the next one.; 11 April 2012 at 21:27
Mark Wadsworth said...: FT, that's an excellent pun, 10/10.

F, he had plenty of good and bad examples to learn from, and he just copied the bad ones.; 11 April 2012 at 21:48
gordon-bennett said...: Trouble with mugabe and his ilk is that they were too pro-state. I always wonder if his cabinet are aware of how incompetent they are without the guiding hand of the white man.

If they want a monument to themselves they could just look around at the desert they created.

As Graeme Garden said (many, many years ago) "mugabe is e ba gum backwards".; 12 April 2012 at 10:24

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