Saturday 4 May 2013

Zimbabwe Unchained

Broomhilda
Django Unchained has lessons for all. 
Broomhilda, the heroine in distress, is stuck in a world of oppression and exploitation. Like Zimbabwe, she is under perpetual threat.
 All around her are exploiters, money makers and manipulators of all kinds.
 Django, The 'D',  our hero, is on a mission to save her. He learns the ways of the world from a more worldly mentor, and uses his new found skills to save Broomhilda.

The D goes through his training and gets into a violent final confrontation with his darling's oppressors. The moral of the lesson is: it is never easy to change the order of things. Zimbabwe's economic struggle is going to be long and hard. This lesson was repeated in  past chimurengas.
To bring about change in Zimbabwe will require Django's sublimity and guile. Fortunately, it does not require The D's violent heroics. The solution is to stop supporting the oppressive forces economically, politically and ideologically-we learnt that lesson from Gandhi.

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