Will Africa Implode -Part 3

As I write today, many events happening in Africa have overtaken what I wanted to write.
Today, August 22, 2011, rebels in Libya have almost taken over Tripoli, the last stronghold of Gadhafi and three of his sons have been captured, while a fourth is alleged to have been killed according to CNN.

What I don't understand is why any many, any man would die rather than relinquish their power over a country, ruling with an iron fist, including murder in order to stay in power. Can't Gadhafi see the proverbial writing on the wall? Does he want to lose all his sons, eight in number like Saddam Hussein did before he gives up his control over Libya?

No matter his bravado, he must be terribly afraid of perhaps what happened to Mubarak. Yes, Mubarak was seen in a cage when he was brought before an Egyptian court for trial against corruption and many things. So why didn't Gadhafi flee Libya when he had the opportunity? He thinks dying a martyr will enhance his status in death, should he fall when the rebels take over.

This is the tragedy of many African leaders and the dilemma of the African people. May God help us.

Now back to Zimbabwe:

Currently in Zimbabwe,(that is in 2009) the rate of inflation stood at 76,000,000,000% per month making it only the second country in the world to have had this kind of galloping rate. The first had been Hungary during World War II between 1945-1946 reports Alex Tabarrok in October 2009.
What will the rate be in a year’s time? Only God knows.
Mugabe has refused to go! Period! He has refused to relinquish power because just like many other African leaders, he thinks God gave him the intelligence to be the only one to rule his country! Since 1980 when he assumed power, the country’s economy and everything else has detoriated. The wealth of Zimbabwe has dissipated and their currency is only paper. It has turned to ashes as the report says. And the people of Zimbabwe? Helpless in the face of such monumental abuse of their rights and privileges that the United Nations Charter gives them. They have no right to life; no right to proper education; no right to exercise their authority to elect their own preferred leaders; no right to food as millions are starving in that country and the United Nations is impotent to do anything so has the African Union which has become a toothless bulldog digging its head in the sand while the greatest portion of its body hangs outside like the proverbial ostrich.

You know why, because I believe that no African head of State who does not have the best interests of their peoples at heart wants to expose their own corruption and their constant perpetuation of their reckless, brutal and selfish power. They are just emulating and following the proverbial case of “those who live in glass houses?” Now you get the picture. Many of them are afraid of what has happened to many dictators after they leave office so they decide to 'die' there.

So in 2009. after the government of Zimbabwe hit the historic mark of printing the one hundred trillion dollar bill, it gave up and is currently using the South African Rand and the United States dollar. When will this end?
I rest my case.

Next in line will be Rwanda.

Cheers!