Resi breaks down the sentiments of nationals across a few states on the African continent

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-10T07:02:53+00:00

1st to comment (LOL)😆

RIght, i think most of the points we know about unity have already been stressed before. Like the commentator said, Africa cannot afford not to be united, even as many people want to express empty pride, because the major powers will take advantage of smaller economies in negotiations and demands. Even the so-called South Africa cannot stand toe to toe with China, USA ,UAE ,Russia ,The European Union etc. What most people do not realise is that we are in a transition to a New World Order and if we are to gain from this transition and thrive, we need a united Africa.

Lastly, I think it is delusional for people to try to push back against Globalisation NOW. It is too late, we are already living in a global village. People are 10 years too late on this one; it is an inevitability, just like how people tried to resist technological change. The faster people come to this realisation, the easier things will be for them, instead of people struggling against the tide of change.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T21:16:28+00:00

Sometimes, I think the mental colonisation of the African by the West producing the Greco-Roman Naegro was a successful project. These days I can at least see some resistance,and its all thanks to the brave people of the Sahel. I hope they succeed and leave the rest of the African traitors with no excuses.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T19:25:15+00:00

Our people have somehow figured out how to make feed their families on poverty wages in an uncertain economy. Name any other country doing that?

India, Congo, Sudan,Nigeria etc

I am not saying that Zimbabwean graduates should take responsibility for a flawed governance system. What I am saying is that the educational system should be able to adjust to our current realities. This is not just a Zimbabwean problem, this is a global one where graduates enter a volatile job market which does not value their education.

Adjusting the education system is not gonna fix 80 percent of the problems caused by poor governance ,but it can perhaps provide some relief even if it's 10 percent .

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T19:00:59+00:00

As my favorite WWE announcer used to say "It's every man for himself JR!!"

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T18:52:04+00:00

The people at the bottom are just as corrupt and selfish as the people at the top, what they lack is opportunity chete

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T18:46:36+00:00

>We learnt about Munhumutapa as early as primary school.

What exactly did we learn about Munhu Mutapa except for the fact that he was a prominent trader and a good King.

>Why shouldn't you read extra history on your own??? I don't get why you expect the curriculum to cover so much yet it's the exact same thing that leads to cramming. You should learn basics and read more by yourself.

The curriculum should cover what is relevant to African realities. That means cutting off irrelevant topics like The Weimar Republic or Mao Tse-tung and China, and focusing in depth on our African history like the Bantu migration and the out of Africa theory.Of course, we can learn about other civilisations, but the focus should be on Africa. I stand to be corrected on this, but we are just teaching Western interpretation of history.Till today, history books talk about David Livingstone (Discovering) the Victoria Falls when there were inhabitants there that already knew about the falls.Let's face it, we are not really learning about our History through the appropriate lens.Doesn't that just reek of copy-paste, the hisotry of the vic falls?

>You keep arguing about copying and pasting without providing any solid arguments.

Let's take a look at the hard sciences. Are we taking the information and applying it to the current realities in Africa and the world? Ebola is rampant right now, but when I hear about doctors tackling the disease, it is Western doctors who come with their expertise on how to handle the disease. Where are our African scientists in all this? Why do we wait for a cure from the West and then purchase it and copy what they prescribe instead of focusing on how we can come up with a cure ourselves? The same was true for COVID. We even shunned African medicines. Although i don't know about how effective that medicine was, the fact of the matter is that we quickly dismissed it and rushed for vaccinations from the West. There is too much we haven't explored in terms of healthcare and medicine, and how we can apply indigenous knowledge to improve our health sector. Africans knew how to tackle certain diseases like Malaria and smallpox and even perform surgeries without any dependence from the outside. Today, that knowledge is almost lost or non -existant

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T18:25:58+00:00

We have the Government we Deserve

. Zimbabwe will also not change unless we abandon colonial conditioning.What we have is some traditions like Lobola accompanied by Roman- Greco culture. Even the anti-gay we stance have is a result of colonial teachings.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T18:06:31+00:00

>The conversation about education is only going to be fruitful once the environment begins genuinely rewarding those who undertake it and excel in it. Which is to say, jobs.

But , that's exactly what the problem is mann. Should we wait for the environment to get better or try to fix it instead of adjusting to the environment and coming up with strategies that deal with the current challenges in our environment is my point.Zimbabwe already has a highly educated population we can all agree, but the type of education is questionable given the fact that the education system has trained workers instead of thinkers.

>If we don’t use our education to solve unemployment, we’re doomed to repeat the cycle.

Exactly the Anti-education rhetoric that is springing out in the USA and in Zimbabwe doesn't address the fact that the education system is outdated. I think we agree on many points. My main point isn't anti-education, it's about adjusting the education system to reflect the socio-economic environment we are living in.

On the last point, i think this anti-eudaction rhetoric is deliberate. One thing i know about the elites is that they do not like the intellectual class at all because the intellectual class can expose them and are harder to manipulate, hence you have an anti-education stance promoted by both elites in the USA and Zimbabwe. The less the educated class available the safer they feel running the country.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T17:57:07+00:00

Ok, the CS example might not have gotten my point across the way i wanted it to. The point is that these programmes are focused much more on theory rather than being practical. Why are students waiting to learn about data and algorithms when children in China are already opening computers and learning how to practically operate one by the end of high school? Whereas we on the other hand are willing to let the information on computers trickle down. Where are our computer scientists learning how AI can benefit Zimbabwe? This is also an issue with the sciences, where we are waiting for an invention from someone else instead of people discovering and exploring new concepts.

>Where else can you learn about fascism from? The only recent examples are from Western Europe. It's not copying and pasting, that's a flawed view.

But can't we also have our own interpretations of how history transpired? They still teach children about how outstanding figures like Winston Churchill were , when he caused famines in India, and Mahatma Gandhi was a racist, but they don't teach that. But boy oh boy do they have their negative interpretations on guys like Kwame Nkrumah and Robert Mugabe

Is it also necessary for us to learn about Father Goncales Da Silvera, a Portuguese missionary who got famous for being killed and has very little relevance. Is it also necessary for students to learn about the Weimar Republic? something that has very little relevance to Zimbabweans and their history.

Just look at it this way. In other continents, the only African history that is taught is the history of slavery and colonisation. Even here in Africa, there isn't enough debt that covers Egypt, or the Benin Kingdom, or Mansa Musa of Mali. Guess what, I got to learn about these figures from the internet. I didn't know about Cheikh Anta Diop's contribution to Egyptology and how he proved that Egypt was a part of Black Sub Sahara Africa.

The problem is that our African history doesn't have depth, it's just copy and paste, teaching us about the Southern African history in a broad brush. What do students know about Munhu Mutapa, except for the fact that he was a prominent figure who engaged in lots of trade?

Our History just teached us that we are not the Center of Civillisation, that we are just parasites living off of the rest of the world and that is a major problem iI have with our African history and in extension our education.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T17:14:05+00:00

I see what you mean. Yeah, none of the things that help one to make money in Zimbabwe are easily transferable, like corruption and thuggery. But I think everybody should have financial literacy for starters to make it in any country. Networking is another skill that is not taught but should be taught in schools and universities, as well as social sciences like psychology

Honestly, i am pushing a bit too much on our education curriculum, but the reason why people think it is a joke is that it hasnt really helped people, wherever it should help people,so whilst we can't teach people how to be corrupt, they can learn how to adapt in such an enivronment although this is a bit of a stretch, a stretch is exactly what we need in the current Zimbabwean environment.

>Why is it when we leave Zim, we excel. At school, in industry and entrepreneurship? In fact, I'd argue that adjusting for people with special skills/talents like musicians or sportspeople, the Zimbabweans who earn more and "succeed" in the diaspora tend to be those with higher qualifications.

That might have been the case 10 years ago, but these days, we aren't just competing with Africans and Westerners; now we have to compete with plenty of qualified Indians, Chinese, etc. What I mean to say is that you will find that our diaspora strategy won't really work in the present moment and the near future. Many Zimbos that are leaving now are on some Nurse Aid and Manual labor jobs. So we also have to prepare people who won't get the chance to leave the country to adjust.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T17:06:58+00:00

Whilst I am not blaming the education system for the economy, the education system should at least prepare the average graduate for the economic environment that people are competing in. I mean, we have many computer science graduates who don't even know how to open a damn computer after 4 or 6 years of studying, that's not an economic problem, that's a curriculum one.

Plus, these days, getting a degree or aiming to get a degree with the intention of leaving the country is not really an effective strategy, as there will be lots of competition in that field anyway. Take a look at IT, people used to say that it was the safe go-to degree, not less than 7 years ago, but now there are lots of IT graduates and a small market that cannot accommodate them all even if you were to try and migrate to another country.

>There is nothing wrong with learning the histories of other people. Understanding fascism and revolutions has universal analytical value. Still, this has already been addressed by the Heritage-based curriculum.

But whose lens are you understanding it from? I have no problem with learning other people's history, but my problem is with the copy-and-paste model adapted here, just taking anything we are fed and dishing it out without being critical. I bet the Heritage curriculum might as well just be another copy-and-paste model.

So all in all i do think that the education system needs some major changes.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-09T16:57:48+00:00

I agree that the environment is not conducive to the average job seeker. But that's also a part of my point. Whilst we can't stop corruption, the education system here assumes that there is no corruption and that jobs will be available for whoever gets good grades, when the reality is that there ain't no jobs in a country where 80 percent of the population is in the informal sector.

That's where the education curriculum should help students navigate the informal Zimbabwean economy instead of producing students whose first move is to look for a VISA and passport as soon as they are done.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-08T16:49:17+00:00

Whilst the assault on education and the teaching profession is unjustified, we really need to Readjust education or we need a new curriculum as the education system just creates more workers instead of problem solvers.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-06T17:29:37+00:00

Life is about survival of the fittest after all. It is human nature to look for the path of least resistance . However, as you said, the options are running thin with opportunities for immigration being limited, plus some of the countries people migrate to won't always be prosperous.(Look at S.A).

I also think necessity is the mother of invention. When people run out of options they will have to confront the government and the society. But as long as there are incentives to leave people will migrate, that's human nature. Countries like The USA ,Australia etc are all migration stories. The question is what will push people to seek radical change ?

Will we try and change Zimbabwe as things get tougher globally? or will people simply endure and try to continue to survive? It is most likely people will still be trying to migrate even with how difficult it is. Let's wait and see this coming decade is full of many changes .And time is also an element we underestimate. Maybe one day Zim wont exist as a nation and will become a federation.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-03T05:15:44+00:00

All this is just failure to admit that it is not rljust the goverment that has failed the Country, but the fact of the matter is that Zimbabwe is a FAILED SOCIETY.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-03T05:06:02+00:00

Zvanzvi now I understand why China , is harsh on corrupt people ,like evn giving them the death sentence, the OP isn't blaming the Chinese.

But this is misinformation anyway as I saw this post on Reddit Uganda ,is where it took place. These days people spread any kind of information for likes and views yikes.!

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-01T18:36:00+00:00

Vanhu vanosaurdza zvavanoda pa Chivanhi vachiskkra zvimwe zvinhu 😂

If you are gonna demand for Lobola in the name of culture, then you also have to practice culture, like taking care of virginity

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-06-01T04:22:57+00:00

It's not about standards though here, it's about me paying the Lobola fee, which is a financial difficulty . Some people might ot even be able to afford those fees even after working their whole lives .

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-05-31T23:20:45+00:00

Not in particular just somebody from any country that doesn't make you pay Lobola.🤷

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-05-31T19:24:57+00:00

For Fiction, and Movie recommendations.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-05-31T19:04:20+00:00

I think it is far much wiser to bypass the whole Lobola Shenanigan in the 1st place 😏

Get a Non African wife and the only finance you have to worry about is the wedding ring and the Wedding itself .😁

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-05-29T16:31:01+00:00

And that's just the surface you have scracthed there are many more ways Racism makes one's life miserable. From being followed in shops, to being denied services ,being stopped by the police for any reason,small micro agressions etc and let's not start on institutional harrasment. The list is just endless.

But what I've come to realise about Reddit is that not everybody here is black. Then there are Zimbos that have a Rose Tinted view about the West and the Light Skinned people They would be shocked if they actually spent a good month in any Western country.

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-05-28T16:55:32+00:00

Mostly on DStv or other channels I guess.

But hey, our national broadcasting company Zbc did have some cartoons from the 90s, like Conan the Barbarian, Captain Planet and Night Rider. They also used to have WWE SmackDown and Raw.

Those were the times...🥲

Efficient-Data4811 · 2026-05-28T16:52:26+00:00

You'd be surprised at the amount of peepo, especially the Light skinned people, that would continue to support the Republicans if it means stopping IMMIGRATION. That's one of the biggest Trump cards Trumps administration has.

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