Guru Mutonga O. Shadrack

Does it make sense for a European ex-leader to be tried in Africa for war crimes he/she committed in Europe ? One day it will make sense.

@iyan_robert @janetmachuka_ Condemnation that amplifies the thing it hates is useless. Don’t feed the spectacle. Shame the attention-seeking that films the dead, poses at coffins, or turns grief into content. Respond with intention, not performance. What do we truly value?

I find social media to be such a scary and weird space , For instance; When something terrible/immoral is trending, "Bigger" accounts with huge audience condemning it also magnifies the trend and makes it louder , @janetmachuka_ where's the balance ?

Assassination Tape 8 — Dedan Kimathi (1957, Kenya) The forest general who made the empire tremble. February 18, 1957 — Dedan Kimathi was hanged by the British colonial government. They buried him in an unmarked grave. But his ghost still walks in the Mau Hills.

Assassination Tape 10 — Mehdi Ben Barka (1965, Morocco) October 29, 1965 — Paris. Morocco’s opposition leader invited to a meeting. Kidnapped. Never seen again. Ben Barka’s disappearance still whispers in the corridors of power.

Assassination Tape 7— Samora Machel (1986, Mozambique) October 19, 1986 — a plane crashes near the South African border. The leader is dead. Was it bad weather, bad navigation, or bad intentions? For Samora Machel, the clouds never cleared.

Assassination Tape 8 – Omar Mukhtar September 16, 1931 – Libya The “Lion of the Desert” resisted Italian colonization for over two decades. Captured in battle, he refused to bow, refused to beg, refused to betray his cause. Italy hanged him before thousands.

Assassination Tape 7 — Félix Moumié (1960, Cameroon) A glass of wine in Geneva. November 3, 1960 — Félix Moumié drinks, smiles, then collapses. Thallium. The French secret service signed his death in poison, not ink.

In the chase for the bag, sleeping too much isn’t the problem not knowing what to do once you wake up is. Class dismissed.

There’s a child growing up in Gaza. He sees rubble before toys, bombs before birthdays, blood before books. One day the world will hand him a holy book and say, “Trust God’s plan.” But when he asks his questions too loudly, the world will call him a terrorist.

If we truly want to stop the conflict, we’d have to stop buying electric cars. If we can’t do that ...then maybe we should stop pretending to cry with the Congo. Food for thought. Class dismissed.

The Democratic Republic of Congo says... The electric vehicle you dream of runs on a battery made of cobalt and lithium. Over 70% of that cobalt comes from one country: the Democratic Republic of Congo. A country that hasn’t known peace since independence.

We’ve seen this playbook before. Yet here we are ... still excited when the puppeteer pretends to cut strings. Think, my people. Think. Class dismissed.

This is how it began in Ghana. In Burkina Faso. In Congo. In Sudan. Togo. Liberia. Libya. Iraq. Tanzania. Nigeria. And the list goes on.

It hurts to see Africans applaud when the "International Community "criticizes our rogue governments. They clap, they cheer, they celebrate as if salvation has come from the same hands that once shackled us.

How do you expect me to be anything but the Alpha and Omega of global chaos the one who starts the fire, sells the extinguisher, and writes the peace treaty? Class dismissed.

If 60% of my GDP depends on the trade of arms and weapons of war how does the world expect me to promote peace? How do you expect me to let go of my permanent seat at the UN Security Council, when I profit from insecurity?

Assassination Tape 6 — Chris Hani (1993, South Africa) April 10, 1993 One bullet to the head, in his driveway, in front of his daughter. Chris Hani’s death almost lit the fuse to civil war. They aimed to silence the future. Instead, they ignited a nation’s demand for change.

Assassination Tape 4 — Eduardo Mondlane (1969, Mozambique) A parcel arrives in Dar es Salaam. Inside, a book — and a bomb. February 3, 1969 — Eduardo Mondlane, leader of Mozambique’s liberation struggle, opens it. The pages were his last.

Nothing advertises itself so thoroughly as conceit. Class dismissed.