Author: Mukanzo Vunda

I lived in Zambia till my late teenage years, when, while at the University, studying civil engineering, I was offered a scholarship in Czechoslovakia, then still in the Eastern block. Even though I could only be accepted at a veterinary school there, I gladly accepted and left my favourite subject, engineering, for a course I had no interest in - I was after all getting a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel abroad. While in Czechoslovakia, my course was changed to economics, decisions I think the commies made because they felt it essential that they brainwash as many of us as they could. Veterinarians are hardly seriously introduced to Eastern Political Science, which was the aim of the whole scholarship program after all; each side wanting to indoctrinate as much of the world as they possibly could with their ideology in this era of the cold war. Fellow students whose courses were changed at the last minute put up incredible fights, gave ultimatums, and acted when these were not met, until they were re-instituted to their old courses. Unfortunately, and this I regret to this day, I did not put up a fight. Even a letter from my parents advising me to take immediate action did not change this. I simply stood aside and watched, stoically, as others decided my life for me.

 

I graduated from the university in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, in 1988, and moved to Germany. I learnt the German language in preparation for study at the university there, but left Germany for Holland to join a friend who claimed it was much better there for foreigners wishing to continue with their studies. No truth came of this, but before I lost interest in educational achievements, I had acquired one more degree in psychology.

I am still resident and working in the Netherlands.

Mukazo Mukazo Vunda.

 

Visit mukazo.com: This site is an initiative by Mr. Mukazo Mukazo Vunda, founder of the company Burning Bush Solutions! the designing power behind this site. The aim of this site is to present the salient features of books by Mr. Mukazo Mukazo Vunda. It is both a promotional tool for the books, as the opinions of Mr. Vunda presented on this website are to be found in full in his books, as well as an opinion exchange point for people interested in knowing more, or contributing to the idea of an African renaissance.

 

 

A collection of socio-political articles on the African condition by Mukazo Vunda, written in the course of ten years. Mukazo Vunda's view of the connection between a revolution and a renaissance is dealt with. The legacies of colonialism that interfere with sub-Saharan Africa's political and economic well-being are also dealt with, and proposals on how to free the African psyche from the chains of this legacy, in readiness for a true revolution, are given.

Published: August 2001.

 

 

Life in the west exposes Mukalu, a descendant of protagonists in the short stories of this book, to the "men" who run the world political and economic scene, who find no difficulty discovering him. His realization that he is predestined to end up their enemy comes too late. With doors shut all around him, he is at the mercy of the "men". Mukalu becomes isolated, then untouchable. At the height of his decline, no longer interesting, the "men" depart. Left alone in the open however, not yet a hopeless case, he manages to return to his homeland and proceeds to "make contact and peace with his ancestors", and helps create a new political and economic kingdom, applying to its strategy the ways of the "men" he has acquired in full.

Published: April 1999.