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Mugabe honored as an ‘African hero’
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Foreign dignitaries including former and current African leaders on Saturday paid tribute to the late former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe at a state funeral in Harare.
Mugabe died in Singapore last week at the age of 95. Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for nearly four decades until he resigned in 2017, will be buried later at the National Heroes Acre in Harare after completion of a special mausoleum that is being built for him at the top of the shrine.
In his eulogy, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo said the whole of Africa was mourning the loss of a great fighter and a worthy combatant of Africa’s causes.
The whole of the African continent in general and particularly the people of Zimbabwe have lost a contemporary leader of this millennium. A true defender of human dignity all over the world and a strong defender of the sovereign rights of the people of Zimbabwe, he said.
Obiang was the last African leader to visit Mugabe four days before he passed on in Singapore.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Mugabe will be remembered as a pan-Africanist who selflessly dedicated his life to the emancipation of Zimbabwe and Africa.
“He was a visionary leader and relentless champion of African dignity. Mugabe has left an indelible mark in the history of Zimbabwe and African continent at large through his political astuteness and zeal for the economic and political liberation of Africa,” Kenyatta said.
He said keeping Mugabe’s dream of a truly free and prosperous Africa will be the most befitting tribute that Africa can pay to the departed African statesman.
Mugabe, Kenyatta said, was steadfast regarding Africa’s quest to address challenges facing the continent and he saluted his unwavering insistence that African problems demand African solutions.
He observed that Mugabe always championed African interests first and challenged African leaders to continue doing the same as a befitting tribute to Mugabe.
Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings said Mugabe was not only a teacher but an impressive moral compass.
“Our enduring affection for Mugabe is equally rooted in the strong bonds of brotherhood that derived from his growing up, studying and teaching and by marrying a Ghanaian girl,” Rawlings said, referring to Mugabe’s first wife Sally who was from Ghana. Sally died in Harare in 1992 and was buried at the National Heroes Acre.
Samia Suluhu, the vice president of Tanzania also paid tribute to Mugabe and described him as an icon and luminary leader.
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