Indewhat Day?

I have almost forgotten “Independence Day” The lighting of the flame martial music mass displays women with be-faced hips and buttocks fists raised in the air, once triumphant turn to anger Thomas Mapfumo yodelling “Chitima cherusununguko” (Here comes freedom train) These are fading scenes in my mind which is fresh with questions Independence? From whom…one oppresser to another? the then - British colonizer to now Chinese? Liberation? To what end...an endless cycle of poverty and self-exiled ambitions? Happy Independence Day then, If you will… 17/04/2013