A lot of people can only define themselves through capitalism. The clothes and brands they wear, the car they drive, the house and neighborhood they live in, and the job they have become their identity and self-worth.
The majority of Malawi’s corruption happens through procurement. When some of us stand to speak against things like this, we are threatened and branded as haters, but all we want to see is a developed and functional Malawi. This country is for all of us, not a select corrupt few.
Burkina Faso Overhauls Its Curriculum to Reclaim African History
Burkina Faso is officially overhauling its national curriculum to strip out colonial biases, replacing terms like "explorers" and "conquerors" with "invaders" and "spies" in history, geography, and citizenship textbooks.
The reform introduces 54 new lessons from primary through secondary school that drop Eurocentric benchmarks in favor of indigenous political structures, local resistance movements, and African scientific contributions.
By emphasizing that African societies existed and thrived long before European contact, this initiative plans to correct decades of distorted narratives and reclaim the continent's true history.
It is insensitive to celebrate death. Okay, we have heard you.
But what was even more insensitive was watching a man flaunt wealth accumulated through dubious means in a dysfunctional Third World country like Zimbabwe, where millions of people cry out daily for political and economic change under the old dictator Emmerson Mnangagwa. So it is hardly surprising to see millions celebrate this death by helicoper crash. It is hardly surprising to see thousands of tweets and posts saying, “Good riddance!” or, “You flew too close to the sun and had it coming!”
Ancient scripture reminds us that when an evil man dies, the people rejoice. When a man is perceived to be evil through his actions, his death brings joy to the common man.
There is a reason people rejoice. To dismiss that joy entirely is either dim-witted or a wilful desire to live in a make-believe world created with words and popularized by prophets (or tele-evangelists) and their pronouncements, especially those who stood before their congregations and told people to pray for long life for Mr. Wicknell Chivayo. Yet God, apparently, rejected those prayers.
We will all die. We know that. But Wicknell has died first, and we are here to acknowledge the jubilation of people in Zimbabwe who had no power to stop alleged gold mafias, and to stand with Zimbabweans who cannot freely speak out against the old man, Emmerson Mnangagwa who changes the constituition willy nilly in his favour!
This is a sobering week. It reminds us all that no matter how clever people may be, and no matter how many empty prayers false prophets may offer to their gods, there comes a day and an hour when everyone must answer to the consequences of their lives.
Good riddance, Wicknell Chivayo.
It was a send-off befitting a man who lived large while his country was burning to the ground.
When a director named Zack Snyder showed the entire world ,how Fortress of Solitude is not just a physical place to heal one's body but also a sanctuary of isolation to heal the soul.
some of y'all really need to reevaluate the consistency of your politics, coz how do you claim to be a "leftist" & support the death penalty? how do you support giving the state - with its virtually unlimited resources - the power to take human life? when you KNOW it's corrupt?
African wisdom teaches us that it is not wise to celebrate the death of another, but it does not forbid us from speaking the truth about the dead. So I will say this: “The chickens have come home to roost.”
Wicknell was the face of corruption, not just in Zimbabwe but across Africa. He was used by ZANU PF to plunder and launder the wealth of millions of impoverished Zimbabweans and then flaunt it before them. As Zimbabweans died in hospitals because of a lack of drugs and died on potholed roads, Wicknell splashed millions of dollars on expensive cars and cash gifts for privileged pastors, musicians and other elites. Money that could have bought medicine. Money that could have built roads. Money that could have fed hungry families. The extravagance of he and a few of his associates existed alongside the suffering of millions.
Mnangagwa apparently decided that the Wicknell curse should not end in Zimbabwe. Wicknell began appearing alongside other African presidents and political elites, including leaders in Malawi like Chakwera and APM, and elsewhere. In Tanzania, as people were killed amid a disputed election, Wicknell was in the picture. And I dare say he had blood on his hands just as Sululu has blood on her hands.
Wherever democracy was undermined to keep oppressors in power, Wicknell was never far from the corridors of power. But Wicknell was not the disease. He was a symptom of a disease we have failed to treat in Africa. A disease of corruption, greed, patronage, impunity and every man for himself. A system where a few politically connected individuals accumulate obscene wealth while millions languish in abject poverty, and cannot afford food or medicine. This spirit must be rejected across Africa!!!
And if Zimbabweans read this, I say to you: use this moment to demand an end to the system that created Wicknell. Organise. Rise. Take to the streets tonight if you must. Demand accountability from ZANU PF and Mnangagwa. Take back your country. No government is bigger than its people. No ruling party owns a country. Zimbabwe belongs to Zimbabweans. Wicknell may be gone, but the system that created him remains. Take to the streets and dismantle that system. They can’t kill all of you!
May the souls of the dead rest in peace!