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HOW THE WEST PUNISHED ZIMBABWE FOR TAKING BACK STOLEN LAND
In an explosive interview, former pastor and Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga broke down how the West economically strangled Zimbabwe after the nation reclaimed its stolen indigenous lands.
Zimbabwe’s independence was shaped by the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, under which Britain was expected to fund the redistribution of land from white settlers to the country’s indigenous Black population.
But the former coloniser reneged on this promise in the 1990s, forcing President Robert Mugabe’s government to take the repossession of white-owned farms into the hands of the state and return land to Zimbabwe’s indigenous Black population.
As noted by the interviewer, Sovereign Media's Ahmed Kaballo, Western-dominated economic institutions sanctioned Zimbabwe “to the hilt,” with Maponga adding that investment in Zimbabwe “remains the big red flag.”
Maponga also confronted the deep-seated colonial trope used to justify the theft of African resources.
“The propaganda says, when a Black man takes the land away, he does not know how to use it,” he said.
Highlighting how Western media systematically attributes agricultural success exclusively to white ownership, Maponga added:
“The only time the land is useful, it is when it’s in the hands of the white people.”
And as Zimbabwe continues to be punished for daring to defy Western hegemony and reclaim its sovereignty, Maponga called for the dismantling of the myth that Africans are incapable of managing their own wealth.
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