I love Mugabe! I love him!

 

 By Gregory K. Taylor

While riding the bus through “Little Africa” Guangzhou, China, I happened on this Zimbabwean who adamantly expressed her love for the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.  Known as Rhodesia under white rule, this writer was surprised to hear such admiration being expressed for a man who according to the English and American governments is a murdering-ruthless dictator, who has turned the country once known as the bread basket of Africa into the basket case of Africa.  

The adage regarding two sides to every story is clearly evident here as we rode through a noisy section of "Little Africa." Mugabe is considered a pariah, persona non grata in the west, but from the perspective of this traveling businesswoman, who makes her wholesale purchases in China and then takes them back to sale in Zimbabwe, he is a great man who has been subverted at every opportunity by the English and their progenitors who now find themselves on the bottom rung of the Zimbabwean ladder.

She states that the redistribution of farm land from its illegal-colonial occupants to its rightful owners contributed to the huge flight of wealth from her country which now finds itself in a hyper-inflationary state. According to her, Mugabe, in spite of some mistakes, has been the only person in sub saharan Africa to stand up to the whites for what is right. She further stated, “If he decides to run again, I'll vote for him.”