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Harare – Zimbabwe claims a place in the list of countries participating in the Eurovision Song Contest. According to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe has “every right” to participate in the song festival.
Zimbabwe wants to be the first African country to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, but has not yet received permission to do so. Mnangagwa does not accept the argument that it is a European festival and therefore intended only for European countries. “If Azerbaijan and even Australia can join us, we can too,” the Zimbabwean president said.
Australia was a British colony and therefore allowed to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, but according to Zimbabwe this is not a valid reason. “Zimbabwe is now a respectable dictatorship, but we were also a British colony. Incidentally, since Brexit, Britain is no longer even part of Europe.”
“The Eurovision cartel fears Zimbabwean competition. And that's right.”
Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe
The real reason Zimbabwe is not allowed to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, according to President Mnangagwa, is pure fear: “The Eurovision cartel is afraid of the Zimbabwean competition. Rightly so. Other countries also know that they no longer have a chance if we have Thomas Mapfumo in the Eurovision Song Contest Mhandoro Dzinonwa Let them sing.”
