How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Remembering the Times of Disgraced, Gucci Grace

Wherever you’re after losing big, I’m pretty sure; you’ll read this piece offered pro bono as a counsel to likeminded first ladies.  I know, you know. Your hubby Bob turned Zim into his private estate for many years supported by the army. Again, as they days went by, his magic wand waned. Things became worse after you manipulated him and staged a bedroom coup by greedily and blindly plotting his fall. You took advantage of his senescence without knowing that things have drastically changed. Yours was power, power only. Thanks to your greed, myopia, and ignorance, you only saw one side of the coin. Power deceptively clambered onto your puny pâté that you’d turn Zimbabwe into Graceland or Greedland after taking over from kaput Bob. What a fatal and sacrilegious mistake!
            Thanks to your ignorance and greed, you misjudged power dynamics, especially the centrality of the military and war veterans. You naively forgot; the power yum-yum you’re enjoying was the product of the blood and sweat of the duo above. Instead of making do with them by averting power hunger, you myopically thought power was like a sybaritic game you used to play in bed. Power’s so sophisticated, especially for a person of your caliber with only infinitesimal and pitiable knowhow.
Now, your husband’s no more and the game is long gone and up. What of you who’s almost a half of his age? What are you into and up to currently? Guess what. You’ve a crucial role to play in the historicity of Zim? Upshoot? You’ll help us to discourage those planning to replicate your tricks to launch bedroom coups. Did you know? I can assure you, my sister. Though Bob’s and your power is a bygone now, he wasn’t the first to be helped to take a rest. It once happened in Tunisia. Habib Bourguiba’s relieved of power to free him from power brokers who’d, like yourself, hijacked him in 1987. He’s then almost ten years younger than your husband. Importantly, I know. Your husband survived many big waves to end up being brought down by an illiterate lady simply because he shared bed with you!
        Disgraced, sorry, Grace, forgive me. You’re fully involved in bedroom politics. To show who truly you’re, Zimbabwe and the world in general jubilated when the Zimbabwe Armed Forces averted the country the shame you enacted although it created another. It made no sense for Dalilah to sit on the highest sit of power in the land simply because she dreamt about being president not to mention using her body to do so. Essentially, this must be a lesson to other myopic dictators whose wives are operating them like puppeteers.
        Disgraced, sorry, Grace, you violated Robert and Zimbabwe. Can you say mea culpa, mea culpa and apologise?  You brought shame to African women who are renowned for being patient and supportive to their husbands. Your greed and myopia are now eating you up. If I were you, I’d have spent much time either upgrading my education or helping poor women in the land? Instead, you spent much time and money on power hunting to end up being haunted by power not to mention being hunted like an antelope. Believe ye my sister. Zim’ll never let you go scot-free. It’d badly want you to be brought to book for the sacrilege you committed. It’d like to see you in the same position former Ivorian first lady Simone Gbagbo once was in after misleading her husband the same way you besmirched Bob.
        Disgraced, sorry, Grace did you know? God’s nowadays faster in repaying than before? The sage’s it that whatever you do, payments or rewards are here on earth. Absolutely, absolute power corrupts absolutely the sage has it. After being married to Bob––––after betraying and divorcing your hubby––––you forgot your humble past. You self-appointed a power behind the throne.  Had you been educated, maybe, you’d have studied or remembered the history of Simone Gbagbo if not that of Elena Ceausescu nee Lenuța Petrescu former Romania first lady who bungled and corrupted her husband so as to start off a tragedy that saw them deposed and summarily killed.
        Now, provided that the fall of your husband is mainly associated with your power lust, I’m pretty sure. In post-Bob era, Zimbabweans are likely to forgive him for his other sins, especially if they remember how he fought for and brought independence to Zim and bungled it because of you.  As for you, I don’t know if they’ll stomach forgiveness provided that many flaws you committed resulted from evil intention of grabbing power and keeping on abuse and misusing it at their detriment.
Finally, Disgraced, Greed, sorry, Grace, brace yourself to answer for millions of bucks you robbed and squandered at the time Zimbabweans were dying of hunger, preventable and curable diseases.
Wait Grace wait
Never stop to wait
  Wait for justice to be served
Yep, wait for the reward
Yep, reward for your greed
What a lesson!
Source: Zimbabwe Independent today.

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