Category: Essays
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Welcome to Storyboard
In the classic welcome note of a column, a journalist called Yours Truly chats up a pen friend called Dear Reader with the wise words of a great philosopher called Anonymous and a connection is made. I was all about keeping my thread unscripted and personal, but for the sake of tradition, Dear Reader, welcome…
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Britain, Chamisa and Mnangagwa
To hear Nelson Chamisa tell it, Zimbabwe under his administration will be a technological nirvana that will make Wakanda look like a Stone Age wasteland, with supernovic bullet trains and aerodromes connecting rural farmers to world markets. His futuristic fleet was, last week, deflated by Stephen Sackur’s typically agonistic line of questioning in a BBC…
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Bulawayo Goes Futuristic
In a good year for African heritage at the box office, Black Panther has flared up discussions for its daring, optimistic and controversial reinvention of the continent. While the top-grossing movie has made Afrofuturism pop worldwide, literary Africa has been also warming up to science fiction as a platform for floating big ideas about a…
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A Croc and Bull Story – Wananchi Goes to America
‘Wananchi, the revolutionary cake has more yeast than flour. We cannot leave Uncle Sam’s bakery with an empty basket.’ ‘Who are you, cloth-cap nigger?’ ‘I am Tendai, the lawyer who briefed the U.S Senate on Zimbabwe’s coup lite. Since your goodwill dried up, the opposition has become a cigarette, bitten on one side, blazing on…
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Leonard Zhakata’s State of the Nation Address
Leonard Zhakata, for years, dominated Zimbabwe’s hit parade with the flamboyance of Michael Jackson, the radicalism of Bob Marley, the piety of Jimmy Swaggart and proverbial turns of verse evocative of a rich Shona past. Each time he entered the studio, Zhakata murdered competition, issued a new edition of Shona idioms, pleaded lawsuits for the…
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Frantz Fanon and the Power Triangle
Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades Author: Peter Hudis Publisher: Pluto Press (2015) ISBN: 978 07453 3630 5 Frantz Fanon’s crusade against the shady tendencies of power crosses racial and ideological bounds. His foremost accomplishment is, perhaps, the precedence of humanity over ideology in his work ethic. For this, his intellectual strivings remain audible…
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Nyerere – Homage to Village-Wise Statesman
Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah (PBS) When politicians run their tenure, they are survived by our monuments, but statesmen are survived by their legacy. Pan-Africanist father figure Julius Nyerere towers immortally in his manifold legacy for the continent, chiefly freedom, unity and development. Although there are still promises to keep, at a time when inequality…
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FAY CHUNG'S NEW MAP TO THE EAST
Fay Chung’s Zimbabwe Looking East A climate of economic indeterminacy outlined Zimbabwe at the inception of the unity government in 2009. Coalition partners ideologically oscillated between the polar extremes of the modern world – the East represented by China, and the West represented by Europe and the US. With Zanu-PF’s decisive electoral victory in 2013,…
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PROFITEERING FROM A BASIC RIGHT
School children (Photo: Africa Check) When schools squeeze parents to beef up their safes, children are the ultimate losers. The commercialisation of education, trending in Zimbabwe through obligatory fund-raising mechanisms by secondary schools, prices a basic right beyond the means of poor children. Not even schools but inequality, poverty and ignorance, the principal demobilisers of…
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Stereotypes – Who Feels It Knows It
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (Photo: ted.com) Early hours, when sun and song awaken the privileged to earth’s delights, and mellow vistas spread out, leaders may be surprised to know what it takes to endure life away from their vastly diverting luxuries. For then everyone must head away from the impartiality of dreams, each to a familiar…
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