Before the Brits showed up in Zimbabwe - things were very bad having nothing to do with racism, rather how the locals ruled themselves.
They picked a new king once a year who was permitted to do whatever he wanted literally. Have as many wives, concubines, other men’s wives as he wanted, settle old scores in whatever fashion or method and so on. After the end of the year, there was a big celebration and feast, at the end of which the king was slain, and a new king chosen.
Everything was just awful for most people. But now back to Mugabe things are returning to the normal state of abject misery - any racism is of their own making.
Who’d want to be a king there unless they were crazy?
Well anyhow once whites DID show up, then the issue of racism was ripe to show up too. Hey, we’re the Crazy Blacks and We Rule even though the end will be our death!
Gospel is really the only thing that could fix this.
And I do think of gospel here. The King did die, but again the King didn’t remain dead. I’m sure these people would be a lot happier with that kind of king. These people DO understand the need for sacrifice, which gives the gospel a leg up already. Atheists are harder to approach.