Hold Me Now It's The Evil Liberator

"Zimbabwe has been a hotspot of political turmoil, what with the struggle over corruption in the government and the dire and terrible inflation that plagues the citizens of this southern African nation. This situation has been worsening over the course of the past decades, and it is time that steps be taken to remedy it.

Due to the oppression exerted on the Zimbabwean people by their corrupt "democracy," some have compared their situation with former president Robert Mugabe to that of the late Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. Westerners are claiming that, like with Iraq and Hussein, "the removal of one man from political office is going to create a super democracy that would make Zimbabwean poverty history." The government of Zimbabwe is embarking on a journey to revive the nation's economy, the international community must refrain from interfering in the political set-up of the country. As this article from a Zimbabwean paper says in its headline, "We're Our Own Liberators". 

"Now Zimbabweans are being helped by fellow Africans in liberating themselves from the chains of impoverishment by way of constructive solutions to their problems."

Zimbabwe needs to take steps on its own to fortify its political and economic structure in order to maintain any sort of recovery, but other nations are lending a hand in helping them out of their current deep hole.

In light of this poverty-stricken state, Zimbabwean journalist Sifelani Tsiko brings about the question "Is there a direct link between 'behavioural and cultural poverty', on the one hand, and economic poverty, on the other?"

Anthropologists and sociologists have grappled with this question for some time, but what it comes down to is the capacity and motivation for cultural development in a people and whether it is allowed to develop, which in the case of extreme poverty, it is often not. The Zimbabwean people have a lot on their plate, economically and culturally. Their rich culture risks withering away if the subsistence of the people is something that remains uncertain and precarious.

 

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