Zim’s spindoctor: We’re allright, Jack!

Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the US, Machivenyika Mapuranga, speaks to Foreign Policy TV about his nation and its inclusion in the 2007 failed state index at number four, after Sudan, Iraq and Somalia. (Hat tip: This is Zimbabwe.) It’s all a plot, of course. Things are just fine. In fact, Zimbabwe is one of the strongest and well-organised states in Africa. It rocks, it rolls, and shimmies to the beat. If racist homosexual colonialist imperialist in Britain and the US didn’t ban the export of harps to Zim, it would be heaven!

Sadly, the fellow speaks some truth:

In Africa, Zimbabwe is not regarded as a failed state. We are greatly loved and admired by the other 53 African countries.

Including by Zimbabwe itself, one assumes.

The United Nations voted Zimbabwe to be the chairing country of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. … They wouldn’t do that to a failed state!

Actually they would. And they did. Someone should abolish that impotent, corrupt and downright offensive charade of an organisation.