Wat is wrong wit you? Eh eh…

So I think pidgin English should be on the school curriculum. I love the way it is animated and quick. Those fluent in this bastardised version of English use it well well.

I think on this important matter the Pan Africanist advocates would agree with me. Why wouldn’t they. One language spoken across the continent. We are one is all I have heard since arriving in Ghana. So why not make it happen.

I wonder who I should speak with. Tambo Mbeki, where are you, let’s make it happen ooh.

If Robert Mugabe was here I know for certain he would be up for it! His rhetoric was clear, Africa for Africans. Zimbabwe for the political elites. Well Mother Nature disagreed with this fallen icon of Africa. At the Kwame Nkrumah Museum and Mausoleum they have a tradition of getting visiting dignitaries to plant trees. Mugabe has a tree here too. When I told the staff that I was not a Zimbabwean elite they were sympathetic and passed their condolences. They however went on to lament about the state of Mugabe’s tree. It is not doing well at all ooh! Ah, we no go understand why. It is just really skinny and tall.

As a keen horticulturalist I know why this tree is not doing well. It has a parasite within its core. No amount of light, mulch or water will bring it to health. Mugabe may be gone, but the parasite is still within the core. Zimbabwe is still for the political elites, and Africa is for Africans. So far Diboo is my favourite! Gavin rescued a damsel in distress so comes a close second.

Viva Afrique!! Pidgin English anyone?