Why I blog About Africa And Zimbabwe
I happen to have been tagged by Solomon over at Nigerian Curiousity to take part in a continental "meme" on the subject of why I blog about Africa. This great idea was started by Theophile Kouamouo. The welcome message on the screen of my mobile phone is that classic Apple pay-off line: Think Different. I have always been very clear on this, at least to myself. I believe that the world has come full circle and it is once again Africa's turn to take up the mantle of leading the world as it did during the amazing age of the pharoahs. And I believe the task which falls to my generation is to bring this about or to take Africa so far down this road that no tyranny will ever be able to compel her make an about-turn. I blog about Africa because I actually do believe that true democracy and the freedoms that come with it are essential prerequisites for the greatness of any nation or continent. Greece proved this. As did Rome, which rose only after casting off its Etruscan tyran...