One can never fail to believe the extent to which very many westerners, even the most educated ones, are easily taken for a ride. To be taken through the same circle of lies several times but fail to uncover a con game beats all logic.

But when it comes to believing in fiction, Americans take the crown. The US Department of Agriculture recently made headlines when it listed the Kingdom of Wakanda on its website as a trading partner. Some of the goods they traded included ducks and donkeys!

So it is not surprising when an enterprising conman who goes by the names of Paul Rusesabagina continues to hold sway a section of the American people with his hero fairytale

He continues to be feted despite being a fictitious hero from Wakanda. Whether it is laziness or the attractiveness of living in Never Neverland, simple research would make his admirers drop him like the plague.

In fact, not only has he milked the Genocide dry, he and a former Prime-Minister-turned-virulent-racist, Faustin Twagiramungu, have now set up a terrorist organization to fight against the very people who stopped the Genocide.

Unfortunately, the past few months have not been kind for their armed groups as one-by-one their commanders are being picked off in the Congo jungles and their troops captured or on the run.

Their setbacks are making them run round in circles that Rusesabagina is ready to take on any speaking engagement he can get, as long as his audience is an ignorant lot.

On the other end, Twagiramungu has now become a hysterical wreck who sees Tutsis everywhere to the extent of branding the new Miss Universe, South African Zozibini Tunzi as one of them!

Cry, my beloved country.