Vanity of Vanities…

Politics in Malawi is very humorous. It converts into a conformity game where the patterns keep echoing themselves but branded in a different colour and form. This has curved into a dwelling where the current owner can’t control the temptation of extravagance that is manufactured out of desperation for colour and pomp and goes ahead to buy 50 pickups because the previous possessor had 49. 

To add on to the insults hurled at his pitiable neighbours the owner sends one empty headed cheer leader who announces the purchase of the fleet of cars well in advance and tries to play around with verses and phrases that have become part of this political gabbling for ages, “well-wishers have showered us with all the millions we are splashing, by the way what’s your business in all this?” am even seeing a middle finger being flashed in this empty pomposity.    

My argument still remains, let them have all the cars they want in this world but come May, 2014, none of those pickups will be casting a ballot. In the wise words of King Solomon they remain “vanity of vanities… all is vanity”

My mind keeps swaying my point of view believably to the platitude “truth hearts”. The orange team has been found to be a bunch of some desperate clowns who have wretchedly left all that matters about Malawi, just like the behaviour of most politicians before them, they can choose to play around with our emotions at will, even our lives in the name of leaving a mark, outpacing their opponents, convincing the electorates, searching for achievements, unfortunately their orange brand can’t sell. 

When it comes to telling lies, they tell lies like no other political party before, they clap hands to mediocrity like it has never happened before. They are way on top in everything that is politically bad. They are a case study of a failed domination and don’t even deserve to be given the mandate to rule this country at any cost.

It took Bakili Muluzi 10 years for people to conclude that his was a lost decade. Then came Bingu, he left a mark in his first term of office but missed the plot in his second term because he had made selected mistakes in judgement but overall he had 5 good years and some few bad years (must be one or two) that’s a consolation. 

Came April last year, eish! Where do I start from? Because it has been hell all the way. I have always asked the hand-clappers to the current leadership to at least show me something apart from the ‘chiwongolero” “ntchito iyoooo” “yanyamuka” slogans that will convince me to join them in praise singing, but all I get in return are insults from party zealots.

President Joyce Banda is our president, one president at a time, JB moment, what else? Yes we all agree but come 2014 her time will come to an end because as rightly put, I haven’t heard of her being called a life president.  

“That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, see, this is new? It has already been in ancient times before us”. Atelo Mlaliki.