Slog - Comments on The Other Election http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election Why is Mugabe confident he is going to be reelected? Because his main opponents, Mr Tsvangirai, who heads the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Simba Makoni, the former Finance Minister, are from Manicaland. I'm a Manica, my family comes from the mountains around the capital of Manicaland, Mutare. What is the problem with being a Manica? We are, to put it in terms that are not complicated, the smallest tribe of the the three main tribes in Zimbabwe. We might produce lots of educated men and women, but our intellectual power is not backed by the power of a... Copyright 2008 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:30:46 -0800 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:01:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NapoleonXIV Mugabe! Tsvangirai!

Makoni! Muedede!

Let's call the whole thing off!

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946122 2008 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:23:10 -0800 Comment by tsm I would've figured he'd be sure of reelection because his men will be counting the votes.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946160 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946160 2008 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:21:45 -0800 Comment by Big Sven Hey, Charles- could Africa solve a lot of its problems if it just tore up the European maps and build states around ethnic lines? This part for Tutsiland, this part for Hutuland, etc, etc, etc? Or are the tribes mostly co-located?

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946174 2008 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:09:12 -0800 Comment by charles mudede to go tribal with borders is to go backwards. tribalism like homophobia reeks of country thinking. i'm of the city. i am a universalist. what matters is the human condition. the human situation. and human liberation.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_other_election#c946205 2008 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:01:59 -0800