Love and courage in Africa
April 7, 2011, 10:52 am
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
Here is a link to a BBC broadcast that features two people actively involved in dealing with horrors in contemporary Africa, a priest in the Ivory Coast who is trying to defend tens of thousands of refugees, and Jenni Williams, one of the founders of Women of Zimbabwe Arising, who is under persistent threat of arrest for her and her group’s activities. Here is their home-page.
What courage and what love!
They both have love and courage in spades!
I’m glad to see that WOZA has received international attention–e.g., the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award from President Obama in 2009–but Ms. Williams and the other brave members of WOZA have an implacable foe in the Marist- and Jesuit-educated, Roman Catholic dictator Robert Mugabe, who has brutalized the people of Zimbabwe and turned the country’s economy into a shambles. (What is there to say about a hyperinflated economy where a $50 billion note (actually issued as currency!) has the purchasing power of a couple of loaves of bread?) As unchristian as it is, perhaps the best that can be said about Mugabe is that he is 87 and will hopefully be passing from the political scene in the near future.