Claus:

It was not sanctions that caused Zimbabwe to stop becoming the food basket of south & central Africa. It was the random, emotionally driven and disorganised seizure and transfer of productive farms to unqualified Zanu-PF supporting "farmers" who chopped down the trees for firewood, sold and ate the livestock without thoughts of replenishment and generally left the farms run down.

Let us not refer to some generic sanctions as being the cause of Zimbabwe's downward spiral. Please list the sanctions on here for everyone to see and draw their own conclusions.

Anybody taking Mugabe seriously need to see a doctor quick. He should unite Zimbabwe first before calling for African unity.

mickey jag:

The sun has set on the West.

You see, Western economies have basically become a bunch of Las Vegas casino, smoke-and-mirror type economies whose creditors want their money back. You cannot sustain a lie forever. Already, the anarchists are out in force in central Madrid and Athens. Ditto Ireland, Iceland, Italy and Portugal. Britain and the US are not far behind.

So then, after their “economies” are gone, what will they have been left with? Granted, Africans will still be dirt poor, but if things get bad, we just go back to our villages and grow tomatoes,  I would not be surprised to see Africa's recent past become Europe's future. What an irony of history if that happens.

Their is a peculiar system in this world that defines any lazy bum White person living in Africa as an “expatriate”, while a hard working African medical doctor in America, a Green Card holder and an Ivy League graduate, will forever be seen as an illegal immigrant, a sponger and a coon, just an evolved monkey. Rest assured though, that system can’t last very long.


The bigger picture to the Africans in the Diaspora; be wise……. Already, the evil messages of fascist politicians like Geert Wilders, Pauline Hanson, the BNP, and the Vlaam Bloek, et al, are once again resonating with Westerners. Barrack Obama was a onetime bleep on the radar-even if he miraculously gets a second term, which I doubt he will.  Better get your fourty acres and a mule before the next Pogrom, genocide and mass-murdering dictatorship finds you unprepared. After all, the last one happened only 60 years ago, and 6 million Jews were slaughtered……….be wise………

xcolanto:

The rate at which NLers divert from the article and topic at hand is quite shameful. The subject of the article reads "Mugabe at the African union: Let`s stand up to the west". Yet most people are here blabbing about the local politics in Zimbabwe and farmlands! if anyone does not have anything to say relating to the content and the subject of the thread why not read and pass by than attack the personality of Mugabe rather than discuss the message his trying to pass across.  In my own opinion Africans and the A.U should find ways to handle their affairs rather than having the western countries pork-nosing in the affairs of the African continent.

xcolanto:

The rate at which NLers divert from the article and topic at hand is quite shameful. The subject of the article reads "Mugabe at the African union: Let`s stand up to the west". Yet most people are here blabbing about the local politics in Zimbabwe and farmlands! if anyone does not have anything to say relating to the content and the subject of the thread why not read and pass by than attack the personality of Mugabe rather than discuss the message his trying to pass across. In my own opinion Africans and the A.U should find ways to handle their affairs rather than having the western countries pork-nosing in the affairs of the African continent.

Kenyanstar:

Its now clear that most of the nigerian citizenry is suffering from an inferiority complex. The last time i checked egypt, zimbabwe, iraq & libya were fully flegded properous nations until the western countries interefered. The case of iraq, which was among the most developed country in the arab peninsula is now in ruins. Libya which was the richest & most socially habitable african country is now on the edge of a civil war. Zimbabwe was considered the food basket of south & central africa but due sanctions it has left it in absolute destitution. This countries were distabilised by western powers leaving them in ruins. Show me a single african country that has immensley benefited from america economically.

hamsky:

Watch out mugabe you might be the next in america's list

Mugabe may be a tyrant, but he does make a point.
African leaders need to stand up for their countries, and for their people. Firstly for their countries, mind you. Unfortunately Mugabe is not doing that, as far as Zimbabwe is concerned. He's supporting Ghadaffi, but not guaranteeing a better life for his own people. That's why it is always easy to turn Africans against their leaders.

GenBuhari:

Reading some of the replies on this thread , I could not help wondering if some of those that replied are not racist whites instead of black Africans.

For any black African who does not see any merit in what Mugabe says and what he stands for, I would ask you to immediately pause and have a good look at yourself.

We need as Africans to gain ability for independent thoughts and views.

Many of us would need to stop adopting the Western perspective on all international affairs and adopt a stance or position best on our own best interests as Africans.

First off, start to question what ever you see on Western media about Africa and Africans.

In my opinion what makes Mugabe the greatest living African alive is that he had stood up to western bullies in much the same way as great African leaders Thomas Sankara,  Patrice lumumba and our own Abacha in the past  have done.

They came to enslave ivory coast, we said nothing because we were not Ivorians, they came for Libya and we said nothing because we were not Libyans.
When they come for us, would there be anybody left to speak up for us?

Africans think wisely, we need to unite abeg!

occam:

Keep on dreaming! You believe America & European economies will disappear? really? As I type this a 25yr old American is about to launch a IPO for his company set  to net him $5 billion. What does he produce? he provides a communication platform that allows 800 million people to exchange ideas and thoughts. I'm sure you're using this service or know someone who does.

Why I'm bringing  this up? to highlight the disparities in western economies vs African economies. They are at the innovative and knowledge stage of economic development while we (Africans) struggle to feed & cloth ourselves. So do we blame the West for present morass and keep playing the victim. NO! Famine is no a constant threat that we can longer feed ourselves. So I'm not sure which village we'll run to as you said

Despot like Magaba seduce Africans with vain rhetoric like "standing up to the west" without any vision and plan to develop our economies. Asian countries have long figured things out and care less about standing up to the west.  

Our leader continue to bend forward and be hammered from behind by the West (excuse my crude analogy). A myopic and rudderless lot that simply want to enrich themselves and their own families. Look at the collection of despots at the AU summit and point to a single one that inspires you. For instance the younger ones like Gambia's Yahya Jammeh and Chad's President Idriss Deby are also on the same path as the older ones: race to the bottom

Let's stop listening to this nonsense and believing in the western conspiracy. The west is no longer the cause of our problems: its us and our leaders.  

GenBuhari:

Reading some of the replies on this thread , I could not help wondering if some of those that replied are not racist whites instead of black Africans.

For any black African who does not see any merit in what Mugabe says and what he stands for, I would ask you to immediately pause and have a good look at yourself.

We need as Africans to gain ability for independent thoughts and views.

Many of us would need to stop adopting the Western perspective on all international affairs and adopt a stance or position best on our own best interests as Africans.

First off, start to question what ever you see on Western media about Africa and Africans.

In my opinion what makes Mugabe the greatest living African alive is that he had stood up to western bullies in much the same way as great African leaders Thomas Sankara,  Patrice lumumba and our own Abacha in the past  have done.

They came to enslave ivory coast, we said nothing because we were not Ivorians, they came for Libya and we said nothing because we were not Libyans.
When they come for us, would there be anybody left to speak up for us?

Africans think wisely, we need to unite abeg!

Claus:

There may be some merit in what Mugabe has said, but when a man like that starts speaking about his ideas, you need to go back to his country to understand how those ideas have worked out for his people.

Of the African leaders you mentioned, only 2 of them (Lumumba and Sankara) stood up to the West IN SUPPORT OF THEIR PEOPLE. Abacha and Mugabe stood up to the West for their own selfish reasons. Their moves did not benefit their people at all. Lumumba and Sankara continue to be idolised by their people while Abacha and Mugabe continue to be hated by their people.

If standing up to the West is your only criterion for greatness, then Idi Amin should be your greatest non-living African!