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What we ought to teach our children

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EVERY Zimbabwean has an obligation to raise patriots.
Yes —patriots!
Children who will make their country proud.
Children who love their country.
It is true that love, to most, is abstract.
Love for one’s country goes beyond reciting the National Anthem and the National Schools Pledge.
It should also entail working for one’s country.
In other words, children need to be taught to be self-sufficient at an early age to enable their combined efforts to turn the fortunes of our country.
But there is a worrying trend emerging.
It is unfortunate that some parents are guilty of teaching their children to the contrary.
They are teaching their children to venerate the whiteman – to speak his language at the detriment of their mother toungue.
It gets worse when they are taught to worship a white God.
This is the same whiteman whom we defeated after waging a protracted struggle after he came to our continent purporting to ‘civilise’ our forefathers who were ‘savages’ in his eyes.
Yes, we defeated him on the battlefield, but the minds of our people still need cleansing if we are to secure a future for our children and their progeny.
Perhaps we need to look at how certain institutions, installed by the whiteman, still entrenching his rule over our lives.
Religion, particularly Christianity, is one such institution.
Africans have been befuddled by the whiteman once again.
They spend hours praying for miracles, enriching unscrupulous men-of-the-cloth who have mastered the art of deception.
It is unfortunate these so-called ‘men of God’ happen to be black, thus they are the proverbial wolves in sheep’s skin.
Going under the monicker ‘prosperity pastors’, they entrench a culture of laziness where magic supposedly is the answer to all our problems.
How come the whiteman does not spend so many hours in church, yet he extolls himself as the custodian of Christian doctrine?
While Africans are busy praying and supplicating, who is working for the country?
Who is building bridges?
Who is inventing new ways to improve agricultural productivity?
Fellow Africans, wake up!
When will you realise that while our eyes are closed, the whiteman is busy inventing and marketing products that we blindly consume at the expense of our continued livelihood.
Zimbabwe has been reduced to a net importer of most products consumed in this economy.
We import rudimentary products such as toilet paper, toothpicks, needles and buttons.
This is despite the fact that most of these trinkets are made from raw materials readily available in abundance within the borders of this country.
The country has been birthing blinkered graduates without an ability to spot gaps in our economic fabric which requires their acquired knowledge to be applied to address real economic problems.
Zimbabwe has lost two decades of development at the behest of Western-engineered spanners thrown into our works which it can only regain if we work in overdrive.
Magic will not regain us that lost time.
Neither will prayer.
But hard work, which will enable the country to not only clear its debt arrears, but also stock up its reserve coffers that will be a buffer for our children and future generations.
All this cannot be achieved if we do not decolonise their minds.
None but ourselves can solve our problems!

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