Managing Eurocentric contradictions (The Herald)

Reason Wafawarova, SYDNEY, Australia

10June 2010

EUROCENTRIC history is the best way to determine Western psychology and ideology and it is this history that explains fully the deleterious nature of Western imperialism.

Unlike the history of many others, Eurocentric history is not written by any other people but the Europeans themselves, and as such this history is written as a form of self-indictment.

It is an admission in and of itself of the insane nature of imperial hegemony, and one only needs to look at the effort that Western powers put up in order to maintain the imperial status quo.

Most people look at European imperialistic history and they find it appalling, embarrassing and hurtful. However, not many people compel themselves to look at the prevailing ideologies that have flowed from that history.

Catching hell in two places (The Herald)

Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia

02 June 2010

THE role of perception in world affairs is so central and significant that billions and billions of dollars are poured into propaganda systems each year to influence how people view events around them.

A colleague, brother, ardent follower and critic of this writer’s work, Taurai; asserts that there is a correlation between perception and vested interests inasfar as understanding political power is concerned.

In this essay, we are later going to look at an example of the perceptions that have been created and peddled around the personalities of President Mugabe and former South African president Nelson Mandela, the former largely seen as an enemy in the Western spheres while the later is viewed as that exemplary darling after which Africa must follow.

‘Democratic reform’: New fad of subversion (The Herald)

Reason Wafawarova in SYDNEY, Australia

27 May 2010

IMPERIAL hegemony as an establishment must project false and injurious ideologies that are accepted by its victims, and tradition has it that these ideologies are often portrayed as givens, as natural and as incontestable.

When the United States insists on maintaining illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe, and doing so on the basis of pressing for "democratic reforms", the whole idea is to project a fraudulent ideology that is to be seen as not subject to question.

This is essentially the thinking and philosophy behind the proposed amendments to ZDERA, renaming it ZTDERA, as the US tries to administer a "transition" of governance in Harare from its Congress House in Washington.

To the US empire democratic reforms simply mean a governance system that is reliant on Western hegemony and that complies with the dictates of imperial authority.