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As Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe handed over the reins of African Union chairmanship to Chad’s President Idriss Deby on Saturday, he ranted for an hour against whites, former colonists, Westerners, U.S. President Barack Obama and the United Nations.
What was set to be a ten minute speech ended up lasting around an hour instead, with the Zimbabwean president rambling and rating, while receiving a standing ovation from his peers at the African Union summit.
While the main topic at the African Union summit held Saturday in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia was the critical situation in Burundi, it seems Robert Mugabe had his own agenda.
Despite rumors of his death that did the rounds during his recent vacation in Asia, there wasn’t much wrong with Mugabe as he gave his rousing speech, making UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon squirm in his seat as he spoke out against the UN. Mugabe told the gathered audience at the African Union summit that Africa would walk out of the UN unless it was given permanent representation on the UN Security Council.
Mugabe said, “We have asked and asked and asked for security council reform,” adding Africans are tired of making “hollow speeches” at the UN with no results.
According to Mugabe, only those with white skins were the real members of the UN and that Africans were not and he said if the UN is to survive, “we, Africa must be equal members of the United Nations, if not one day they would decide “down with the UN” and walk out.
As reported by the Independent, Robert Mugabe did say that Ban Ki-moon is a good man, but he said Africans “can’t make him a fighter.”
“That’s not what your mission was. But we shall fight for our own identity and personality as Africans.”
Imploring Ban to tell the UN that Africans also belong to the world, Mugabe said they “are also human, not ghosts.”
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