/bookmarks/jenni-williams-the-woman-who-took-on-mugabe-world-news-the-observer Good article about a great woman. Thu, 14 May 2009 02:49:02 +0100 Thu, 14 May 2009 02:49:02 +0100 en-uk <img alt="imhotep" src="/avatars/32074/square/imagebereft." /> <span class="mask">&#160;</span> imhotep said: <blockquote><p>Jenni Williams -- fight on, struggling spirit !! Yet hers & many similar movement stories share a problem.They call to my heart but share no lesson or path with it.Perhap that would've been the gift of a politics more specifically Matabele / Zimbabwean / crossbreed / underclass --- not a general universalistic fempacifism that grapples with identities without forging distinctions. And mention of Mugabe's land reform offered a chance to learn --- if it was about redistriibuting wealth, where did it err, & is there a valid question here, in a settler - colonised land, of expropriating ( rich ? ) white settlers in order to benefit the landless & poor black farmers ? The story of Obama's victory lifting her spirits fits in with the worst sort of generalized, Mandelaesque politics that's proved to be a dead end for neighboring South Africa, the replacement of struggle with illusions, & Tsvangirai's even worse than Mandela. History's question : Where do the Matabele & Shona nations go from here, & should their ways divurge ? Is the idea of the Zimbabwean & other nationstates one of false nationalisms got from imperialism & destructive of Africa & her traditional cultures ?</p></blockquote> imhotep Thu, 14 May 2009 02:49:02 +0100 http://protectthehuman.amnesty.org.uk/bookmarks/jenni-williams-the-woman-who-took-on-mugabe-world-news-the-observer#comment_5730 http://protectthehuman.amnesty.org.uk/bookmarks/jenni-williams-the-woman-who-took-on-mugabe-world-news-the-observer#comment_5730