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Raila Odinga: Here Comes Africa's New Anglo-American Imperialist Hatchetman Raila Odinga, African Union, Robert Mugabe; Zimbabwe; Morgan Tsivangirai; Land and agrarian reforms in Zimbabwe; social justice and equity; Democracy in Zimbabwe ., There is an African saying that, fire begets cold, impotent ash. Perhaps this witticism aptly applies to Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Abongo Odinga, the son of the fire and brimstone, anti-colonialist crusader, and champion of African liberation and emancipation, and celebrated author of the anti-neocolonialist book: Not Yet Uhuru; the late Jaramogi Abongo Oginga Odinga. We have no doubt that Oginga Sr would disagree with Oginga Jr on Zimbabwe. It is both false and errorneous for Raila Odinga to equate the national liberation and national democratic struggles in Zimbabwe, with the social and democratic struggles in Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other African states in the throes of conflicts and violence as a consequen...

WHY ROBERT MUGABE IS A “DEMON” BUT MANDELA A MORAL ICON Reframing the Zimbabwe debate in equity terms In contributing to the debate on Zimbabwe, we would like to employ the equity maxim that “He who comes to equity must come with clean hands”, to reframe the Zimbabwe debate, by inserting an essential moral question, ignored by Robert Mugabe’s detractors. We take the view that, past immoral conduct of those who use moral and rights arguments to condemn and hang others, is relevant to the test of the merits of their claims. In our case, we would like to argue from the vantage point that, British and American breach of Zimbabwe Independence covenants on land and corresponding British and American obligations, undermined their and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) -as -their client’s moral claims of standing for the force of good and Mugabe as evil personified in Zimbabwe. Our sympathies are with the view which asserts that, British and American reneging on their undertakings with speci...