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Mugabe: The Last Lion of Africa Falls

Today, the earth trembles beneath the weight of our collective grief. Another giant has joined the ancestors - Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the last in a fading lineage of true African liberators. His passing marks not just the end of an era, but perhaps the extinction of a certain breed of leader: the unapologetic Pan-African warrior.

The Fallen Pantheon

Mugabe now takes his rightful place among the martyred champions of our continent:
  • Patrice Lumumba - murdered for Congo's resources
  • Thomas Sankara - gunned down for daring to imagine Burkina Faso's self-sufficiency
  • Kwame Nkrumah - overthrown for uniting Africa
  • Muammar Gaddafi - lynched for creating an African gold dinar
These were not perfect men - but when has perfection ever been the price of liberation? They shared one unforgivable sin: believing Africans deserved more than permanent servitude to Western capital.

The Land Question: Mugabe's Unmatched Legacy

While Mandela compromised and Kenyatta collaborated, Mugabe wielded land reform like an axe against colonialism's roots. Today, South Africa's blacks till soil owned by apartheid's grandchildren. Kenya's Rift Valley remains a white farmer's paradise. But Zimbabwe? Zimbabweans own Zimbabwe.

The BBC would have you believe this was "violent seizure." They never called the 1890s land thefts "violent" when Cecil Rhodes' pioneers murdered their way across Matabeleland. When the colonizer does it, it's "pioneering." When the colonized reclaim, it's "tyranny."

The Hypocrisy of Imperial Eulogies

Watching Western media dissect Mugabe's legacy is like watching arsonists critique a firefighter's technique. These are the descendants of men who:
  • Reduced Africa to lines on Berlin's map in 1884
  • Invented "Rhodesia" as a white supremacist state
  • Sanctioned Zimbabwe for daring to be sovereign
  • Their moral authority rings hollower than a slave ship's hull.

The Economic Warfare They Never Mention

They blame Mugabe for Zimbabwe's economy? Conveniently omitting:
  • 20 years of Western sanctions
  • Financial isolation by IMF and World Bank
  • Sabotage of agricultural reforms
When Haiti elected Aristide, America crashed its economy. When Chile chose Allende, the CIA strangled it. Zimbabwe's story differs only in its leader's refusal to kneel.

The White Savior Industrial Complex

Western media peddles a comforting lie: that African suffering stems from "bad leaders" rather than:
  • $2 trillion stolen through illicit financial flows since 1970
  • French colonial taxes still levied on 14 African nations
  • Western-backed coups removing any leader who prioritizes people over profits
Mugabe's real crime wasn't governance - it was reminding Africa that our resources belong to us.

The Challenge to Mnangagwa

Today, Zimbabwe stands at a crossroads:
Will it honor Mugabe's radical legacy?
Or become another "IMF success story" - code for neoliberal plunder?

The true memorial to this giant won't be statues, but whether:
  • Land remains with Zimbabwe's people
  • The southern African liberation dream stays alive
  • Africa remembers that sovereignty isn't given - it's taken

Final Salute

To the West, Mugabe was a "dictator."
To us, he was the grandfather who:
  • Taught that whiteness isn't competency
  • Proved sanctions beat slavery
  • Showed an African "No" could shake the world
As they dance on his grave in London and Washington, let us whisper the truth:

You killed the lion, but the pride remains.

Rest in Power, Comrade Mugabe.
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