BiAS 7 – The Bible and Politics in Africa
Britain, as the former colonial master in Zimbabwe wants to install
Tsvangirai, their puppet, on false claims that old age equals dictatorship.
Mahoso argues that if protests, riots and crises in Africa: Kenya, Cote
d’Ivoire, Egypt, and Tunisia (for example) were triggered by how long
the leader or the party has been in power, then the riots and protests on
the 9th of December 2010 when students in Britain attacked Prince
Charles’s motorcade were because he has been a prince for too long.^47
According to Mahoso the imperialists have tended to use anything for
the purposes of furthering their interests, including not only teaching
youth in Africa to hate their elders who are divinely ordained by God as
explicitly stated in the Bible (Num.11:16-17; Exo. 4:29-31), but also natu-
ral disasters and other scenarios that cause shock as opportunities to
reorder the society.^48 For him, only those youth with unhu philosophy in
their heads endure this Western onslaught and do not rebel against
elders. Such African youth are like Jesus.
Life of Jesus
as confirmation of the African philosophy of Ubuntu
Mahoso argues that all those people in Africa who buy the Western
narrative have ‘African disks full of white memory’. This is the reason
for him why they would hate themselves; hate their own people, hate
African culture, African values and above all, their elders, but only to
love the Western culture and values. All such individuals for Mahoso do
not exhibit ubuntu,^49 since they are guided by ‘white man’s Eurocentric
localisation of humanity called globalisation (which) itself leads to nar-
cissism. And for Mahoso, Narcissus is the enemy of African Relational
Ethics, because instead of relating, Narcissus or Europe’s man goes as
far as Rene Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am”. An African, (with Afri-
in_cote_d_ivoire. (accessed on 16 June 2011); Thabo Mbeki, ‘Thabo Mbeki Speaks on
Lybia’, taken from: Pan-African Views, Insights and Opinions from Zimbabwe, posted
by Tichaona Zindoga on: http://tichzindoga.blogspot.com/2011/04/thabo-mbeki-
speaks-on-libya.html. (accessed on 22 January 2012).(^47) Mahoso, ‘Racist Media, African Leadership’.
(^48) Mahoso, ‘Denigration of African Elders’; Cf. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise
of Disaster Capitalism. Metropolitan Books, 2007, who analyses the CIA publication of
1996, Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, which lays the strategies for America
to dominate other countries by rearranging society and creating disaster situations for
the opportunity to rearrange memory.
(^49) Mahoso, ‘Flush white disk from an African memory’.