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#HopingAgainstHope: Panafricanism and the fight for Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
1/ Between 1970-73, the UK & US vetoed 5 resolutions against white minority dictatorship in S. Rhodesia. The proceedings of the UNSC meeting are eerily reminiscent of our current situation.
#HopingAgainstHope: Panafricanism and the fight for Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
1/ Between 1970-73, the UK & US vetoed 5 resolutions against white minority dictatorship in S. Rhodesia. The proceedings of the UNSC meeting are eerily reminiscent of our current situation.
2/ In 1972, OAU held a meeting in Addis opened by HIM Hailesselassie to strategize further with regard to the situation in S. Rhodesia & the role of the UN. In 1973, a UNSC resolution was tabled by Kenya & Guinea calling for action against the illegal white minority gov't of SR. 
3/ Odero-Jowi, representing Kenya gave a very elegant and moving speech against this debacle and rebuked the members of the UNSC[UN & UK] that consistently stop resolutions against the white minority govt of SR through what he aptly called "velvet vetoes."
1. Some mind blowing insights - about history of institutional corruption in Nigeria’s govt. As early as early 50s the regional govt. were already acclaimed as pervasively corrupt. So much hype about the “so called” founding fathers! #knowthyhistory
2. The founding fathers themselves were a byproduct of an already profligate system quite widespread as early as 1930s - an “unintended” consequence of the British Indirect rule #knowthyhistory
3. The lack of legitimacy of the colonial law amongst indigenous people, the customary traditions of gift giving, belief in the invisible spirit realm and the indirect rule formed the perfect recipe for establishment of impunity and bribery as far back as 30s
