The problem with being progressive
Freedom fighters are pioneers, they persevere and push on where others faltered and gave up. They suffered untold horrors at the hands of the colonisers, they made sacrifices that we the present generation can’t begin to comprehend. Some freedom fighters didn’t live to see and experience the freedom they fought for. Perhaps that is why the surviving generation of freedom fighters ‘The elders’ , look at our generation with disdain. Perhaps that is why they see it necessary to remind us of the sacrifices that were made for us to live free, perhaps they sometimes see us as a lost flock without any direction. What I have come to realise is that every generation looks down on the generation that succeeds them, case in point ; the way my generation (80’s kids) looks down on the ‘born free’ (After 1990) generation (It’s contagious). Freedom fighters are also visionaries, case in point; educational reform in post-independence Namibia. Freedom fighters realised that an independent cou