Certain censorious eyebrows have frowned at the
self-celebrating birthday feast que s’offre
Zimbabwean President-for-Life Robert Mugabe. Featured on the menu: expensive elephants.
This aspect of Mugabe’s fine dining is being widely reported in the
European press, including in the British Isles, but for some reason it has been largely omitted in
American media. Similarly,
Americans are in general unaware of the predilection of his fellow African
dictator, Bokassa, for another succulent delicacy, long pig.
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| "Tastes like chicken..." |
Both men are still widely revered in Africa, though scarcely
outside it.
To those who objected to the high cost of the festivities,
saying that it might better have been spent on Zimbabwe’s orphans, the
President-for-Life gave an answer recalling that of Our Lord in similar
circumstances, though turned upside-down, indicating in effect:
Orphans are but the mayflies of a
day;
Me
you have with you forever.
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