Obama's Heartbreak: The Real Cause (The Herald)

19 August 2010

By Reason Wafawarova

ON the 3rd of August, US President Barrack Obama was hosting what Washington called “Young African Leaders” and what captured media attention the most for this overly inflated non-event was what Obama had to say about one small Southern African country that is causing the entire West sleepless nights, Zimbabwe.

This is what Obama said: "I'll be honest with you; I am heartbroken when I see what has happened in Zimbabwe.....Mugabe is an example of a leader who came in as a liberation fighter and – I'm just going to be very blunt – I do not see him serving his people well."

Era of empires cannot be revived (The Herald)

Reason Wafawarova on Thursday

13 August 2008

During the 19th Century, most — if not all Europeans — lived in states that were parts of empires in the traditional monarchical colonial sense of the word, with the exception of the citizens of Switzerland, the three Scandinavian states and the former dependants of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.

The inhabitants of Africa lived under European empires almost without exception, and so did the inhabitants of the Pacific and the South East Asian islands, large and small.

The ancient Chinese Empire collapsed in 1911, most of the Asian countries were under empires, old and new, except for Siam (now Thailand) and Afghanistan — whose independence was largely due to rivalry between European imperial empires.

The Americas south of the US by this time were largely independent states, although they were culturally and economically still dependant on colonial empires.

Zanu-PF: Where are the vanguard guidelines? (The Herald)

Reason Wafawarova

05 August 2010

TODAY, Zimbabwe is a hotbed of the emancipation struggle. This struggle is between those who have for many years been exploiting Africa’s natural resources and using the people of this continent as their tools and as their slaves; and those Zimbabweans who, after realising their weakness and exploitation, decided to take up arms against white colonial settlers in order to liberate, not only their generation but all the future generations of this country.

These are the people we count as national heroes today and they make the foundations of this great nation, the Rock House, or Zimbabwe.