The Blame Game
I doubt this will be a long post because my thoughts on this issue are being fleshed out. But, in recent months I've become aware of something peculiar; the willingness of African governments to scapegoat colonialism as an excuse for the failures of their policies. The logic is rather simple; our debt is high because colonialism prevents us from being treated fairly. Our people are suffering because colonialism produced unbalanced underdevelopment in the nation. Our institutions are weak because the colonizers installed a system of governance that could not accommodate them. And while there is truth to these arguments, their deployment as tools of rhetoric cheapens the reality of the situation. It turns the history of colonialism, and the suffering of the people within it, into another political tool. Just another way to deny and dismiss the material reality of the people, today. Just as the colonisers did . No man mastered this technique quite like Robert Mugabe. Following a di...