Is the African renaissance finally happening?

[Kevin Peacocke]

It feels like the winds of change are blowing. Politics seems to happen in pendulum swings, and after the post colonial liberalism, communism and anti- ness that I lived through I do declare Africa is on a new path. Speaking about Zimbabwe, sensibility is more evident than ever. It is the beginning, yes, but from the new policy to repair infrastructure, through policy to protect the environment and clamp down on poaching, the initiative is in indigenous Zimbabwean hands. Unless that is a reality, forget it, it ain't going to happen with Western drivers.
Botswana is hunting again, Mozambique is tackling the insurgents, Rwanda is looking to open hunting, Zambia is level and steady. Mugabe is gone, the last wave of the die hards with him, nobody wants or needs these anachronisms any more. Now everyone can bury the hatchett and get on with it.
And what can our foreign friends do to keep the pendulum swinning in the right direction? Just come hunting as often as you can, stats mount up, fugures make compelling arguments in the sensibility game.

 

[R.M.C.]

I'm heading over in July. Hopefully it helps lol definitely things changing every day!!

 

[ActionBob]

Kevin i love that optimistic view and pray it comes to fruition. I'm heading over to Africa very soon and spending a very big pile of USD while there It's going to be a blast! Not Zimbabwe this trip but all the same, good for the whole Continent.

I know some people haven't wanted to spend money in Zim in the past because they thought it all went to the corrupt people. When i was there, my PH went out of his way to show me where the money went and what was done with it. It was most definitely an incentive to the local people to support legal hunting!!!

I look forward to returning to Zimbabwe