The Youth Inspirator

A couple of decades ago young people have suffered the predicament of adult culture. A culture that killed their voice the any discourse to mankind. The previous years have seen the imminent rise of young people with a voice to be part of the Zimbabwean discourse. A marginalised group that suffered adult-colonialism and today it is gaining momentum in the Zimbabwe Agenda. In the fight for the participation freedom we have endured loss to our fellow brethren and sisters, endured abuse and many inhumane acts compromising our human rights. We enlighten the adult world enjoying the status quo that rise we will and never fall again for we have endured the pain of the revolution to emancipation and noted the movement to defend the long struggle. We endeavour to do away with the youth at heart-adults, who proclaim to understand us yet establishing a poise to suffice economic enrichment. Today I unveil my Youth Zimbabwean Dream I have a dream where young people stand up for their rights and ...

 They grew up with a law on their faces They wanted to question the law They kept the question to their hearts They became slaves to the law A law they did not want A law that suppressed them Inadvertently, they endorsed the law as their forefathers When they were aging That law was also on their children’s faces Who also wanted to question the law Questions which died in their hearts Gradually they became slaves to the law That same law their fathers did not want The same law they did not want The law that suppressed them Unwittingly, they upheld the law as their fathers Now they are old Today we are here We have that law on our faces The law our grandfathers wanted to question The law our fathers wanted to question The law they kept in their hearts The law that suppressed them The law that repressed them Amplified now we Question the law We act not to abolish the law We proclaim an amendment Incepting a law of youth participation A law of youth involvement We usher a new dis...

The involvement of youth in the making of the youth year end landmark was coloured by an ersatz of youth involvement.   Youth involvement can only be noted by the presence of the term youth with regard to this juncture. Not only is this a national crisis but stood also as an international crisis. The programming of the celebrations was conducted by mere old cadres in the name of interests in youth development cushioned as youth participation whilst there are a lot of youth activists and youth-led NGOs. We cry foul for the lack of REAL youth involvement at international and National level. July 25 th and 26 th   of 2011 saw the UN General Assembly convening a High-Level Meeting on Youth with the overarching theme “Youth Dialogue and Mutual Understanding”, an International Year of the Youth package. We acknowledge the UN`s initiative to address youth issues in a High-Level fora.   Global Youth Coalition on HIV notes that there were few opportunities for REAL youth parti...