O. Vengeyi, The Bible in the Service of Pan-Africanism‘Many are called but a few are chosen (cf.Mtt.22:14). White settlers were
chosen by God to turn Zimbabwe into a breadbasket. Let them con-
tinue’.^26 It is this narrative that pan-Africanists oppose. As such, the
Western narrative is overturned upside down by pan-Africanists. Nar-
rowly therefore, pan-Africanism equals anti-Western narrative and ‘val-
ues’.
Thus, for Mahoso, as evident in his biblical exegesis, all the countries
and leaders; be they serving or retired, that are praised and highlighted
as heroes in the Western media, no matter how big their names have
become as a result of that propaganda; they are puppets of the Western
empire. As such, people such as former president of South Africa, Nel-
son Mandela,27 and Archbishop Desmond Tutu^28 (of South Africa),
Raila Odinga Prime Minister of Kenya, Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Min-
ister of Zimbabwe, the Dalai Lama, Alessane Quattara of Cote d’ Ivoire,
to mention but only a few are regarded as stooges of the West, hence
traitors like Judas Iscariot. In fact, according to pan-Africanists like Ma-
hoso, every country, leader or individual in this world who receives
praises from the West is a danger to his own people, therefore not a
hero. The same goes for academics, organisations such as churches,
NGOs and others that are celebrated in the West as exemplary.
On the contrary, for Mahoso, all those who cross the Western path are
celebrated as heroes and champions of the interests of their people. This
position influences Mahoso’s pan-African biblical exegesis. In Mahoso’s
views one finds a combative response to the Western narrative, always
taking the opposite of what the West claims. To understand Mahoso’s
pan-African exegesis of the biblical texts one needs to understand argu-
ments raised especially in the Western governments, media and their
allies in Africa.
The Western narrative of African political and economic state especially
that finds expression in Africans who have devoted to nothing but dish-
ing out this Western mantra; journalists, academics, editors of newspa-
(^26) Cf. Mahoso, ‘No going back on land issue’, The Sunday Mail. 20 February 2011.
(^27) Cf. Mahoso, ‘The Robert Mugabe African Reality Vs Nelson Mandela Myth’. African
Focus. The Sunday Mail. 05 September 2010.
(^28) Winnie Mandela, gives the most stinging criticism of both Nelson Mandela and Des-
mond Tutu for selling out. And these views are shared by most pan-Africans, includ-
ing Mahoso. Uhurunews. Com. ‘Mandela Let us Down’. http://uhurunews.com/
story?resource_name=winnie-mandela-on-nelson-mandela.