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Mugabeism is a pan-African revolutionary philosophy, the final onslaught on imperialism on the continent, and for Africans to use the war against the imperialists. This is Africa�s revolution, the Third Chimurenga, another name for pan-African nationalism. Our revolution has and will surely effect a fundamental transformation in the way African nationalism is perceived in Africa and the world, and has brought about positive changes in the nature, pattern, execution, and direction of revolutionary nationalist struggles on the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe provides, through this third revolution, a fitting reply to imperialists whose hurtful hypocrisy of the past few decades had seen them writing countless obituaries on Africa, prophesying the continent�s imminent doom and ultimate death. Revolutionaries see and equate President Mugabe�s anti-imperialist creed with something that sounds like "a hold on a minute comrades, the coffin lid is still open so let�s have another look around, storm back and put things right". Zanu-PF revolutionaries are appealing to others on the continent to confront, fight and once and for all defeat the imperialist forces responsible for the continent�s excruciatingly painful and frustratingly snail-paced political and economic progress. Millions of youths in places such as Soweto, Egoli, Windhoek, Kinshasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Maseru, Maputo, Nairobi, and Accra find our revolution attractive � a philosophical and ideological guide, nay a practical spear and bayonet for imperialist victims to use in anti-imperialist battles and wars of today, tomorrow and for posterity. Our revolution has been adopted and is being implemented both in and outside Africa, notably in Namibia, South Africa, Fiji and Brazil, and is being considered for adoption by similarly committed revolutionaries in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Australia, and New Zealand. The Mugabe Revolution is an assertive combativeness in the art of revolution against crude forms of Western imperialism, widely seen as an appropriate response to globalisation, has revived the pan-African ideals of Du Bois, Nkrumah, Garvey, Lumumba, Cabral, and Sekou Toure of total liberation for self-determination, and has great relevance to global politics. In the meantime those of us in Davira Mhere are appealing to all African presidents and their ruling parties, and to all our brothers and sisters on the continent, kuti vaDavire Mhere yeChimurenga chiri kutekenywa nemaComrades enyu muZimbabwe, and that in doing so, they clearly understand the tenets of Mugabeism, which are: l Politicise the masses, and into them and through the educational curriculum secrete the pan-African ideology, which necessarily is anti-imperialist. l Be sure you maintain a modern and well-equipped army, police force, and security network, and which you control, for these help the nation guard the country�s hard won independence and sovereignty. Guard against these being infiltrated by the imperialists. l Politicise the public service, as these are best positioned to implement your governments� pan-African programmes. Forget the imperialist myth of an apolitical public service; theirs are extremely politicised, and politicised to formulate and implement racist and exploitative policies. l Through legislation, designate the land, put your soldiers and other security agencies on the highest state of alert, take the land from the settler colonists and re-distribute the same to your own people, the Africans. l Confront, with courage and determination, any Western sponsored opposition parties and other imperialist stooges, and be ready to deal with imperialist machinations � especially economic and political sabotage (through sanctions and the actions of traitors in our midst), and hostile propaganda. l A cultural revolution should immediately follow, or be executed in tandem with, the land reform programmes. l Ensure you get support from your African comrades on the continent, and the African-Americans and African-Caribbean folk in the Diaspora. l Make land a racial issue, for that�s exactly what it is otherwise how else do you explain the anomaly of a minority group of settler �white� immigrants, mostly less than 2 percent, occupying 75-80 percent of African land in Africa, and controlling the resources on and underneath it, in countries where the majority Africans constitute 98 percent of the populations. All the above, you�ll do well to remind yourselves that power comes through the barrel of the gun. There is no mystery attached to Zimbabwe�s ruling Zanu-PF party�s resounding successes against the forces of colonialism and imperialism because, to paraphrase Dambudzo Marechera � and with a thoroughness that amounts to surgery to the extent of creating something entirely new � I say: The Third Chimurenga is a reaction to terrible truths of naked imperialist exploitation and murderous actions Which the African mouths shape into a soundless WHY? Even as the life-force speeds to the stars like the luminous flight of a burning sparrow! Chimurenga Chetatu is a an Afro-consciousness. That refuses to define itself with pick and shovel Refuses the foundry�s fierce hammering in Africa�s numerous gold mines Refuses the money forged in bloodied underground mud The nickel and diamonds that enrich the imperialists and gives them the power to create Africa�s many beggars Imperialists who are forever deaf to these beggars� pitiful shrieks And blind to malnutrition�s glazed look! Mugabeism arouses revolutionary desires Desires of long lost friends whom the struggle buried Of others who in Kampala and Kinshasa drink down corroded honour Searching for ways to escape the collector�s bottle in the imperialist�s hands To escape the needle pinning African throats to the Settler�s velvet cascades! Our struggle is the Masai�s bull-wrought Resilience Is Lumumba�s bulletproof Brains & Dingani�s culture of resistance Is everywhere in Africa, and everywhere we confront the imperialists These the devils who preach the Ecclesiastics of Racism Fearing no evil but bend on wrestling the evil traitors down We stone to death these Apostles of Death stoned on false Revelations of superiority And to destroy even the empty plinths where Rhodes� statues once stood! Zimbabweans shift their weights from their stagnant right feet to their left�s Revolutionary compassion Banishing the centuries of our wayward fear Infusing atoms that in us explode into atoms of power Dishing out weapons to freedom�s veterans Bayonet, pfumo, assegai, axe, tsvimbo, ibwe, demo, rhekeni, mbezo, danda � Mubhadha, zariro, muururi, sekera, bhidha, half-brick, rukuni, mbariro, bakatwa � Pfihwa, sanzu-rine-minzwa, mbariro, mupinyi, Bango (the pun is deliberate) Shamhu-ine-sharapu, banga, uroyi, chidhinha, bhemba: zvose Anything and everything to use against the imperialists Hacking, gutting, kuzvambaradza, kurakasha, kusinza, kusakadza, kuponda, poisoning, and cutting . . . And with revolutionary passion forcefully drive the spear into their vitals Piercing the imperialist Pagans Hitting them with catapult-stones With Machel�s mewling cry: "The African People, regaining their Land and History, As active participants Will go FORWARD in Prosperity and Happiness!" Yes, we�re at the BATTLEFRONT Each hurtling brick aimed to smash this enchanter�s glass To loot the truths for so long packaged in lies � In Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola� AK fire trained to the shrieking imperialists The monstrous plunderers their dead bodies writhing underneath OUR firepower! Fighting the fight that dissolves all our woes There is no time in time that a Revolution cannot REDEEM � History inside our minds is the impetus to pen and paper � Language like dunes the meanings grains of revolutionary sands Migrating South, Central, East, North, West � yes WEST With searing verbs to divine the meaning from the progress of our struggle And with adjectives we remove and modify the imperialist negative! Tenacity drives us to the Revolution And we believe that the end is always within the reach of our Means � With bullets and rocket-propelled grenades to attack the imperialist BEASTS; The EVIL of too many drizzly investments paid by African blood The VAMPIRES sipping our blood while speculating on Rhodes, Verwood, Botha, Tshombe, Morgan Tsvangirai, Smith, and Hitler The DEVILS responsible for Mass Poverty in Afrika! We fight to defeat those who wash their fat-finger delusions in Jo�burg�s dishes of gold-mine dollars and pounds Whose pith helmets do our blood and tears and sweat stain The blood of Burundians Burkinabis Ugandans Liberians Of Liberians, Rwandans and Angolans with broken limbs and stump consciences! The blood and sweat of Africa�s cream slaving in the diamonds mines at Kenema in Sierra Leone and Jwaneng in Botswana For the imperialists to ship to Europe! We sing and recite war songs And remind ourselves of the explorer�s distant drum that turned into heavy artillery- Of a certain snivelling Smith Whose growling about something not happening during his lifetime turned the settler�s placid �houseboy� into a deadly guerrilla � Who in turn turned the obsequious labourers into emperors! The moment has come for us to recount Comrade Mugabe�s deed done � And let time Smith�s words trace on the teeming sands And with Freedom�s clenched Fist to the Last And booming Voice and bouldered Word Let Comrade Mugabe proclaim to all, at Heroes Acre, the valiant VICTORY! Zimbabwe�s Third Chimurenga, The MUGABE REVOLUTION, is Africa�s Revolution! AFRICA TO AFRICA! AFRICAN LAND TO AFRICA; TO AFRICANS! AFRICA FOR AFRICANS! That is exactly what ZANU-PF�s Chimurenga Chetatu, this The Mugabe Revolution and Mugabeism, is all about! - Chinondidya-chii Mararike is a lawyer, writer, political analyst and Secretary-General of Davira Mhere The
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