That Presidential Ball or Gala Dinner; shows kuti Marwei; Giribheti; Jatiwero;Zvodai; you you and you; are on your own. Call it party fund raising event but aah kufizura varombo. Same people can raise money to get hospitals working but havadi havo 💔🇿🇼
Che Guevara with a Congolese communist guerrilla, 1965.
In 1965, Ernesto “Che” Guevara traveled to Central Africa to take part in a revolutionary campaign in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The mission came just a few years after the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and during a period of intense political instability across the country.
Guevara believed the Congo could become a starting point for wider anti-colonial movements across Africa. He joined forces with Congolese fighters who were resisting the central government and foreign influence, hoping to help organize and train rebel forces along Marxist revolutionary lines.
However, the campaign faced serious challenges from the beginning. Guevara later wrote that language barriers, internal divisions among rebel groups, lack of military discipline, and limited local support made coordination extremely difficult. Foreign backing for the Congolese government, including Western intelligence involvement, further weakened the chances of success.
After several months, the mission collapsed and Guevara quietly left the region. He later described the Congo operation as one of the most difficult and disappointing experiences of his revolutionary career. Within two years, he would attempt a similar effort in Bolivia, where he was captured and executed in 1967.
In 1952, a 27-year-old psychiatrist from Martinique published a book arguing that colonialism wasn't just a political system, it was a documented form of collective mental injury, and he had the clinical training to prove it.
Frantz Fanon trained as a psychiatrist in France before working in colonial Algeria, and Black Skin, White Masks was his first major work, written while he was still finishing his residency. In it, he argued that colonized Black people are pushed to internalize whiteness as the standard of worth, then measured permanently against a standard they're never allowed to fully reach, producing real psychological damage he treated directly in his own patients.
He wasn't writing as an outside observer theorizing about race. He was a clinician diagnosing a condition he watched colonialism actually produce in people.
The book became foundational to postcolonial theory and influenced the thinking of civil rights leaders well beyond Africa and the Caribbean. More than 70 years later, people are still assigning it in university courses because the psychological pattern Fanon described never fully went away, it just changed its packaging.
Have you seen what professional artists do? Beenieman noticed that the mic was too quiet and offered his. When Winky got another mic, he tested it in such a unique way that it sounded like he was performing normally, but it was only for Discord, with a poor band or backing track
‼️KADOMA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Jamaican dancehall singer Beenie Man and Winky D get to perform their collaboration- My Woman - for the first time at #KadomaMusicFestival in Zimbabwe.
📹: Mathew Masinge
@watermanklem Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe's mentality is the same. Thus, colonialism had to bring them together as a single nation without thinking of connecting them to South Africa.