Baba,

Mugabe did not need honorary degrees from the West. The West, as always have
their ulterior motives. Zimbabweans have been discussing the 'threat' and
campaign to withdraw Mugabe's honorary degrees fro a while:
http://raceandhistory.com/selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1180350069,84933,.shtml
so
they saw this coming.

Mugabe was already an accomplished academic when he joined the struggle to
rid Zimbabwe of brutal colonial rule.

From the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, he received a bachelor of
arts in English and history in 1951.

Whiles teaching in Southern Rhodesia, he obtained a bachelor of education by
correspondence in 1953.

Two years later he moved to Chalimbana Training College in Northern
Rhodesia, where he taught for nearly four years while also studying for a
bachelor of science in economics by correspondence from the University of
London.

In 1958 he completed that degree in Ghana, where he taught at St. Mary's
Teacher Training College.

What irks the West is not governance, which they continue to lie is the the
issue, but ratter, what irks them, is the land reform program. We have seen
them shore up dictators like Mobutu, who not only murdered Congolese but
emptied their coffers. As far as he toed the western line, he was OK. They
may be able to fool some people some times but certainly not all the people
all the time.

Incidentally when I first read about the concerted campaign to withdraw his
honorary degrees I broke out laughing and that childhood superstition came
back to mind: 'Meyeh nangu baahut, sa yai dafaa jurr dhomi muus'

They can take back all their degrees as far as the land remains in Black
hands, the real issue.

Regards,

Kabir.


On 6/9/07, Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> This is a good way of treating African despots like Mugabe. Universities
> should think long and hard before jumping to award honorary
> degrees/doctorates etc to people whose only qualification is being at the
> helm of their countries' affairs, a position they then proceed to abuse
> and
> insult in a most shameful manner. Because of such honorary degrees, we
> have
> ignoramuses strutting around in fanciful academic gowns on our continent
> claimng to be doctors and philosophers while enaging in relentless regimes
> of criminality and ruthless violence against their own citizens. Click on
> the link below.
>
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200706080601.html
>
> Baba
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