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Fulfilling the intellectual role

May 24, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
In SN on Thursday, May 8th, was a letter to the editor by one D. Ramprakash, under the caption, ‘Guyanese should be wary of Western vilification of “Third World” leaders’.

In that article Ramprakash did what honest intellectuals are expected to do through their writings: inform/educate the public in a lucid way, especially the many unlearned observers who are most gullible and easily prone to all kinds of propaganda, so as to bring about a better understanding and thus form a more accurate judgment on issues, events and topics of national and international importance.
I have been in many discussions concerning Robert Mugabe and the recent elections in Zimbabwe, and hardly is there ever any sympathy for him, and I myself have been critical of him. I still don’t make him out to be any angel even though I’m aware of the role he played in the struggle to liberate Zimbabwe from British grip and Ian Smith’s oppressive role, yet for all his failings and faults, there are reasons plenty for which one can empathise with him as the Rev Bishop Tutu has done on his behalf (not in any way an excuse for his atrocities on his own people).

There were indeed a number of terrible wrongs done to Mugabe’s people that were never properly addressed, and Mr. Ramprakash hits the nail flush on the head when he stated “the past has an iron grip on the present”; very powerful. He then briefly informed us of the cruel wrongs/injustices that were meted to the Shona and the Ndebele people by British, that they were suppressed, exploited and many of their leaders hanged.
Further, it is easy to reason that if 74% of the most fertile land is taken away from a people in their own country and controlled by a tiny few (4,000), such a grossly ridiculous imbalance was indeed a recipe for anarchy, and it was only a question of time.
Mr. Ramprakash also reminded us of prominent groups of British/American multi national of large main stream business corporations and industries who are all up against Mugabe for all forms of wrongs and human rights violations, when in fact the Africans’ problems stem largely from a ruthless colonial legacy. It is said that two wrongs do not make a right, but like someone said “yes! But you have to correct the first wrong” I agree.
Frank Fyffe

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