Today, I wanted to write a blog about the President’s birthday – the unfounded and tasteless hype. I wanted to express my anger because  in view of the two million people who are expected to face famine this year, or the 90% unemployment rate, the mind numbing propaganda on television and radio or the vendors outside my office who are so desperate and hungry they cannot help but be overly aggressive, a lavish presidential birthday party is nothing but irresponsible and insensitive. But I can’t. I found out that my colleague has been charged with treason, that he faces death or imprisonment for watching a DVD.  And suddenly my hands are still and my tongue is silent.

This is wrong.

This entry was posted on March 2nd, 2011 at 5:40 pm by Upenyu Makoni-Muchemwa and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.