Developing Countries: Neocolonialism in Zimbabwe (Coursework Sample)

Neocolonialism in Developing Countries
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Introduction
Even after the eviction of the colonial masters from Africa, some countries never attained full independence due to the emergence of neo-colonial leaders. Practically, countries such as South Africa have made a significant development move for embracing all the citizens to work together regardless of their races and ethnic background. However, from what transpired in Zimbabwe recently, after Martha O’Donovan, an American posted a tweet that led to her arrest; we are still convinced that dictatorial rule still prevails. In my opinion, there is an over misinterpretation on Martha’s short tweet to look as a disgrace to the world’s oldest president. Apparently, there is neocolonialism of highest order in Zimbabwe that is evident by limited freedom of expression, racial stereotyping and other practices seen in the article on New York Times (Onishi, 2017).
Martha’s arrest is associable to her skin color and country of descent by one of the leaders in the company that she serves as an employee. Perhaps the dictatorial government is afraid that developed nations are trying to play a significant influential role in promoting regular, free, and fair elections in the developing countries. Arresting the woman and other acts such as renaming the largest airport in Harare is a display of strength to communicate ‘false’ message of power by the leaders. These attempts to scrutinize and track down all social media activities reveals the government’s desperation in the quest for power. In such a situation, all government moves aim at covering all its flaws using false allegiance against influential people who seem to be activists against the dictatorial rule. Taking on the American the government seems to be worried about westernized influence to scrap ineffective leaders. Zimbabwe has a legacy of evicting and treating the whites in an unfriendly manner and this arrest raises a lot of concern in the international society. Martha’s of mere tweeting reflects more racial stereotyping influence than rationality in that a similar case of a pastor who emerged in the opposition did not involve tough judicial moves.
Moreover, dictatorship takes effect where we see the government silencing other evolving opposition sides with immediate effect. Normally, changing the name of corporations and huge government parastatals requires corporate consultations and evaluations on the implications it might have on the economy. However, greed and desperation are apparent in this context of changing the name of the airport. In addition to that, increasing cybersecurity in Zimbabwean government aims at suppressing of “radical” information according to the government but essentially, it is apparent that the government fear the rapidly growing social media to serve as a tool to extol new takes on elections and general democracy. In my opinion, a mere tweet about the age and health status of the president is not enough criminating evidence to charge one as guilty. In fact, some prominent leader such Late Nelson Mandela showed courtesy through early vacation of office. People like influential leaders and not dictators and therefore, the government seeks ...