Current Events > Zimbabwe and Zambia to open "Wakanda One" village

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[The Zimbabwean] Government has pledged 2000ha to the African Union for the Wakanda One village to be shared by Zimbabwe and Zambia as part of joint development efforts across Southern Africa.

Wakanda One village is a concept that seeks to rope in Africans living in the Diaspora in spearheading development at identified sites on the continent.

The pledge comes in handy in the countrys re-engagement efforts where it also seeks to court Zimbabweans in the Diaspora to contribute to the nations economic turnaround.

President Mnangagwa has also set an ambitious target to turn Zimbabwe into an upper middle-class economy by 2030 with tourism, agriculture and mining driving the vision.

In an interview during the inaugural Intra African Trade Fair, which ended on Monday this week in Cairo, Egypt, African Union Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the US, Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao, confirmed President Mnangagwas pledge recently.

I met His Excellency President Mnanagwa recently and he offered us 2000ha for the regional Wakanda One in Victoria Falls.
The offer also comes in when the Zambian Government has also offered some land across the river in Livingstone. So we are looking at building the village straggling the border between the countries, she said.

Zambia has offered 132ha for the project.

The Wakanda One village concept expresses a desire by African leaders for all people of African descent the Diaspora to return home and participate in building the continent.

Wakanda One the building of African Centres of Excellence across Africa is looking at building five centres, one in each region, which serve as growth nods for each region which should have downstream benefits for the population.

It will provide state of the art healthcare facilities using advanced technology and onsite pharmaceutical manufacturing.

https://www.herald.co.zw/just-in-gvt-offers-land-for-wakanda-one/

Wow, this is actually real and not a parody. I wonder if this will end up coming to fruition.
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Hopefully it does. Pretty ambitious but I can see it really turning shit around.
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I have no idea what to fucking think of this, but I'm disgusted, nonetheless.
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Bump
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Inb disney lawyers comes with nuclear weapons enough to level the whole continent if not C&D
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They should have Zimmerman cut the rope

Kineth posted...

I have no idea what to fucking think of this, but I'm disgusted, nonetheless.

Why disgusted?
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pretty sure mickey is going to sue them...
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monkmith posted...

pretty sure mickey is going to sue them...

That would be pretty heartless of them.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

monkmith posted...

pretty sure mickey is going to sue them...

That would be pretty heartless of them.

Which is why they're gonna do it
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apolloooo posted...

Inb disney lawyers comes with nuclear weapons enough to level the whole continent if not C&D

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Disney is likely going to sue the hell out of them.
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this is the epitome of a cash in
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WZRDxBULL3TZZZ posted...

Kineth posted...

I have no idea what to fucking think of this, but I'm disgusted, nonetheless.

Forgot to switch alts?

I don't use alts.

__Cam__ posted...

Kineth posted...

I have no idea what to fucking think of this, but I'm disgusted, nonetheless.

Why disgusted?

Because this

Kelystic posted...

this is the epitome of a cash in

Plus the fact that neither of those countries are good candidates for representing Wakanda.
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the real wakanda is gonna get upset
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

They should have Zimmerman cut the rope

What the fuck?
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Kineth posted...

Plus the fact that neither of those countries are good candidates for representing Wakanda.

I mean, it seems like the whole idea behind naming a place "Wakanda One" is to strive for a stronger, more developed area in the long term, living up to a place like Wakanda. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Like what, you want them to take a developed city and rename it Wakanda? You want to limit the amount of African countries that can use the name because they're not "good" examples of African countries? Because that flies in the face of a stronger, more developed Africa. Not to put words in your mouth, but this part of your post has some pretty unfortunate implications.

I agree that it's a cash-grab, and I can't help but think that some fringe psychos are going to make a case for this being an example of colonialism since they're using a name that was produced in America to be used in an American property to develop an area in Africa. But it's like if Black Panther was seen as positive representation, enough for African nations to feel comfortable drawing inspiration for a project like this, then maybe it's cool. Definitely a bit cheesy, but it's probably cool.

Offworlder1 posted...

Disney is likely going to sue the hell out of them.

Not necessarily. Scientists named a chemical in the brain "pikachurin" as a homage to Pokemon, and we've had plenty of fictional properties being used to name meteorites and stars and shit.
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