[Civsoc-mw] Was "Noriega" not a Hero?

[Louis Nthenda]

Too true, too true.
Muluzi saw to it to honour Fr O'Malley. He was Malawi Honorary Consul in
Ireland. Though I've learned that being  Malawi Honorary Consul is the
equivalent of the Honour of the White Elephant bestowed on one by His
Majesty the King of Thailand. (Dictionary, white elephant:  a possession
that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to
maintain or difficult to dispose of.). Elephants in Thailand are domestic
animals used as work horses and at festivals. Sometimes an albino elephant
is born. Albino elephants are regarded as sacred and must be presented to
the King. The King then allocates them to some rich person to maintain in
high style, but as sacred animals, they cannot be made to work). But here I
digress. In addition Unima awarded Fr O'Malley and honorary doctorate on
the same day Unima honoured Prof George Shepperson under Muluzi's
administration.

You mention Unima's Honorary doctorate to JZU. I'm aware of some attempts
at the time to include the late Rose Chibambo, the former leader of the
Women's League, a prison graduate alongside HKB, a Minister and only woman
in the first Independence Cabinet and a casualty in Cabinet Crisis. Yes,
she did appear on MK200 banknote; but that's no reason for not awarding her
a Unima or Mzuni doctorate. And there is the other independence fighter,
Cameron, etc.

Prof Mkandawire is right about a Truth Commission. Ghana had a whole slew
of Commissions of Inquiry into every aspect of Nkrumah's administration
after his overthrow. So we know a great deal about Nkrumah, his henchmen
and those the system had persecuted. It availed both the perpetrators and
the victims a public platform, where people on either side confessed and/or
explained their grievances and were challenged before the whole nation.

LN

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:31 PM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> Practically, Noriega may not be on Nyasanet or on this forum. Colleagues
> on this forum know him as sadly, they had to interact with him under those
> conditions. It may be helpful for people to get in touch with him (if still
> alive) and get to learn whether such a recognition may be acceptable to him.
>
> I read the O'Malley book with a lot of sadness. O'Malley was also a good
> man who perhaps out of his goodness did not wish to offend/embarrass
> people. He referred, for example to the Principal of Chancellor College
> without naming him (all principals at Chanco have been men!); the Head of
> Department and others in such terms. What a good man he was! But these
> people (some of them ) who danced with and fed the crocodiles are still
> among us and we seem to not demand accountability. The naivety that many of
> us believe in that it was all Banda and him alone (and his triumvariate)
> needed to be unmasked. There seemed to have been many collaborators and
> people doing things in the name of the president. How conflicted and
> confused we have been was not surprising exemplified when UNIMA awarded
> Honorary doctorates to JZU and Prof Peter Mwanza on the same day. What an
> ironic day it was!
>
> On 16 May 2018 at 13:27, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Prof,
>> We've had this conversation on Nyasanet, as part of the obituary of Fr
>> O'Malley, in which some of us regarded "Noriega" as a hero and that he
>> should come out so that we can honour him if he is still alive. Good of you
>> to bring up this issue again.
>>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I am a reading Patrick O' Malley's book in which he chronicles some of
>>> this interactions with Chanco brains jailed at Mikuyu. One man known as
>>> Noriega emerges. Was he not a hero deserving unmasking and national
>>> recognition?
>>>
>>> adamson
>>>
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