Although Robert Mugabe and his family are no longer in power, there are things they can teach Uganda, especially its long-time ruler Yoweri Museveni and his family, and the likes who think they’re created to misrule and rule others. In this piece, I’ll allude to the similarities of the two families and partly the country they ruled and misruled altogether. I’m doing this because I see that what befell Mugabe may soon be replicated somewhere in Africa simply because such people don’t like to learn. Now, let’s look at how the Mugabe can teach Uganda, Museveni, and others a thing or two. Let me start with the similarities then go to the lessons.
Firstly, the Mugabe and the Museveni are jumbo political beasts in their countries whose roles in developing and destroying, ruling, and misruling them might be in equal measures. Corruption defines both.
Secondly, the duo shares the penchant of turning public business and power into family biz or private estate. To do so, nepotism becomes the tool of one’s the trade. Instead of employing competent people, one hires his or her relatives or tribesmen, women, close eaters, and swindlers to ruin not to run such nasty businesses. In this art of exploitation and pilfering, amassing wealth becomes the policy and philosophy of such a cabal of powerful individuals who abuse, and misuse public trust bestowed on them.
Thirdly, the duo is good at and renowned for grooming their heirs. Because of the above reasons, the duo groomed their wives or a son, for the case of Museveni since Mugabe didn’t have a competent son to primp. While Mugabe groomed his wife, Museveni has been grooming both a son and wife. This is what I call bedroom politics wherein the bed services are used to fix and tame the bull.
Fourthly, the duo took power in the 80s wherein Mugabe did it first before Museveni came in the big picture six years after. While Mugabe liberated Zim from Smith, Museveni did the same from ragtag post-Amin regimes that proved to be chaotic and disorganised. Ever since, his clanger and tintinnabulation have been “I liberated you for the purpose of using you.”
Fifthly, the duo love power, and they love it dearly. They’re ready to sacrifice even their mothers to cling unto power. Everything was and is still done to keep the power within the family. For the former, game is over though for the latter, it isn’t easy to tell what’ll transpire thought all signs show that it’ll repeat the goof the former made, especially when it failed to differentiate between family and state.
Sixthly, the duo both claimed to be liberators who ended up becoming oppressors and power grabbers as they sought to cling and keep powers even when they’re obviously corrupt, maladroit, and senile. While they duo kept power, actual powers were in their bedrooms where their wives pulled strings so as to turn them into puppeteers, they’d gaslight as much as they deemed fit.
After exploring the similarities of the protagonists, now let’s look at their chattels, namely countries. Likewise, the duo shares some traits such as:
Firstly, they both were colonised by Britain although they got their independence almost twenty years apart. Thus, they both use English as their national language despite having their own beautiful African languages they’d choose from.
Secondly, the twin are landlocked countries that depend on other countries to export and import.
Thirdly the duo also has many places with colonial names whereof Victoria dominates water bodies. There are Victoria falls and Lake Victoria not to mention others.
Fourthly, the two rule ones of highly educated people who can't free themselves from such corrupt rulers.
Fifthly, names of the twin countries originate from ancient empires or kingdom. Uganda comes from Buganda that the white colonisers would not pronounce well, and Zimbabwe comes from the Zimbabwe kingdom.
In a nutshell, there is a big lesson in that even though Mugabe’s gone, still, he’s something to teach others, especially all typical replicas of the Museveni that Africa’s in plenty if anything. Despite having a very stinking legacy, Jongwe’s still the resource democrats and the earthlings can use to assess, even kicking their rulers as it happened in Zim where one evil expelled another and took over. To be precise, Jongwe will never become a footnote. He’s always there even if in bad light. Those are a few things Mugabe can teach the world.
Firstly, the Mugabe and the Museveni are jumbo political beasts in their countries whose roles in developing and destroying, ruling, and misruling them might be in equal measures. Corruption defines both.
Secondly, the duo shares the penchant of turning public business and power into family biz or private estate. To do so, nepotism becomes the tool of one’s the trade. Instead of employing competent people, one hires his or her relatives or tribesmen, women, close eaters, and swindlers to ruin not to run such nasty businesses. In this art of exploitation and pilfering, amassing wealth becomes the policy and philosophy of such a cabal of powerful individuals who abuse, and misuse public trust bestowed on them.
Thirdly, the duo is good at and renowned for grooming their heirs. Because of the above reasons, the duo groomed their wives or a son, for the case of Museveni since Mugabe didn’t have a competent son to primp. While Mugabe groomed his wife, Museveni has been grooming both a son and wife. This is what I call bedroom politics wherein the bed services are used to fix and tame the bull.
Fourthly, the duo took power in the 80s wherein Mugabe did it first before Museveni came in the big picture six years after. While Mugabe liberated Zim from Smith, Museveni did the same from ragtag post-Amin regimes that proved to be chaotic and disorganised. Ever since, his clanger and tintinnabulation have been “I liberated you for the purpose of using you.”
Fifthly, the duo love power, and they love it dearly. They’re ready to sacrifice even their mothers to cling unto power. Everything was and is still done to keep the power within the family. For the former, game is over though for the latter, it isn’t easy to tell what’ll transpire thought all signs show that it’ll repeat the goof the former made, especially when it failed to differentiate between family and state.
Sixthly, the duo both claimed to be liberators who ended up becoming oppressors and power grabbers as they sought to cling and keep powers even when they’re obviously corrupt, maladroit, and senile. While they duo kept power, actual powers were in their bedrooms where their wives pulled strings so as to turn them into puppeteers, they’d gaslight as much as they deemed fit.
After exploring the similarities of the protagonists, now let’s look at their chattels, namely countries. Likewise, the duo shares some traits such as:
Firstly, they both were colonised by Britain although they got their independence almost twenty years apart. Thus, they both use English as their national language despite having their own beautiful African languages they’d choose from.
Secondly, the twin are landlocked countries that depend on other countries to export and import.
Thirdly the duo also has many places with colonial names whereof Victoria dominates water bodies. There are Victoria falls and Lake Victoria not to mention others.
Fourthly, the two rule ones of highly educated people who can't free themselves from such corrupt rulers.
Fifthly, names of the twin countries originate from ancient empires or kingdom. Uganda comes from Buganda that the white colonisers would not pronounce well, and Zimbabwe comes from the Zimbabwe kingdom.
In a nutshell, there is a big lesson in that even though Mugabe’s gone, still, he’s something to teach others, especially all typical replicas of the Museveni that Africa’s in plenty if anything. Despite having a very stinking legacy, Jongwe’s still the resource democrats and the earthlings can use to assess, even kicking their rulers as it happened in Zim where one evil expelled another and took over. To be precise, Jongwe will never become a footnote. He’s always there even if in bad light. Those are a few things Mugabe can teach the world.
Source: Independent (Zimbabwe) today.
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