"When news broke out that London had been bombed I was in a pub"

A contribution from Kudzanai Musange, a Zimbabwean journalist writing from Harare.

"The reaction over the London bombings? well, it's unfortunate to say
that the incident elicited some wideranging reactions -from the
sympathetic to the celebratory "i-told-u-so" kind of thing!

There is a huge population of Zimbabweans in England -an estimated 1.5
million people. According to the last census which was carried out in
2002, we have a population of 12 million. Another 2 million
Zimbabweans is scattered all over the world, especially in the US, New
Zealand, Australia and Ireland.

When news broke out that London had been bombed I was in pub and the
first remark that I registered was that the bombing should have
happened at our State House where president Mugabe is resident....Like
I said, it's sad that such a thing occurred in London -every
Zimbabwean feels the proximity, but in a way, that also poses
questions about the justice of the "world system" --we should not
condemn injustices in one part of the world and condone similar
injustices in another part of the world...conscious people will always
ask, what about Guantanamo, what about Palestine?

So, while I would have loved to give u a straight-forward answer, i feel i'm
still overwhelmed by the happenings of today's world..."