The Chant of Savant

Friday 6 September 2019

Fare thee well Jongwe Robert Mugabe the hero that became a villain

Image result for mugabeFormer Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe is no more. The man who liberated and destroyed Zimbabwe, at last, has closed his chapter. Mugabe was many things in one so to speak. It is not easy to summarise Mugabe's legacy in one book or chapter. What is possible is to confirm that he is no more. He knew the power of this magic juice that one has to sip on without stopping even if it meant to die in office. Being one of our own, the indefatigable Jongwe Bob Mugabe Matibili, the man with many aliases. The man who was a hero that the power turned into a villain; a revolutionary icon by circumstance who become a counterrevolutionary by choice. Indeed, Mugabe was a giant who ended up becoming a dwarf. The visionary that ended up being visionless; the democrat who became an autocrat and outcast. 

Go Mugabe go


Mugabe go 

You were a man of your time who ended to be a disgrace of his motherland 
Go man go
Life is like a cloud of dust go
Go history will unearth many of your misgivings 
Zimbabwe will always sigh with pains and relief whenever your name is mentioned
You built and destroyed Zimbabwe 
Zimbabweans will never miss you for you stood for nothing but power hunger and melancholy
You left them in limbo 
You robbed them of their lives and future
 You were a man of disgrace, a son of Africa who shamelessly abused and misused it
  All depends on how one looks at the man 
Let me  give the devil its due

Go Mugabe 

You betrayed Zimbabwe
So, too, those you trusted betrayed you
They are now posthumously glorifying you
While the vilified you when they topped you
All in all, the biggest loser has always been Zimbabwe
Your legacy will always abhor many Zimbabweans
Gukurahundi will never been pushed under the carpet
The catastrophes you created will always follow you
In your grave you will always signify hypocrisy and duplicity
Now that you are gone
Your accomplices will one day pay
When will this happen nobody knows
Go Mugabe Go

Mugabe liberated Zimbabwe from the fangs of colonialism to end up becoming homegrown coloniser. 
He was a hero per se though power climbed into his  head and ended up becoming a power monster.  Had he  learned from Mwl. Julius Nyerere, Mugabe would be next to the likes of Nyerere, Mandela and currently Kaunda if not Nujoma. Mugabe gained some sort of respect and love after being booted out of office. This is because his successor, Emerson Mnangagwa who erected Mugabe to a national hero posthumously became worse that him. So, what is now said about Mugabe's heroism and patriotism need to taken cum grano salis. Actually, the crocodile became more deadly than a cockerel.
Fare thee well Jongwe Mugabe.

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