Category: Books
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Pan-Africanism and the Mercenaries of Global Capital
Ngugi WaThiongo Africa is a site of conflicting narratives. In recent times, contradictions have orbited around the development question. There is growing optimism that Africa is rising, with statistics pointing to the continent as the fastest growing region. The “Africa Rising” narrative has brokered unusual consensus between Pan-Africanists and global media echo chambers. Africa has…
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Self-Publishing a Spiral of Mediocrity?
Add caption Zimbabwean literature is enduring an austere patch which has been widely attributed to the performance of the economy. Books no longer constitute a household phenomenon, with lack of disposable income cited as the missing link. Although Zimbabweans do not exactly recoil from alternative pastimes, literature has become a blacklisted luxury – a sure way of reverting to…
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African Renaissance – The Elusive Design
Kwame Nkrumah delivers Independence speech A grand design for better days runs the thread of Pan-Africanist literature. Pan-Africanism has been up the podium from the outset of the 20th century, chanting down imperialism, propagating cohesion and charting the course to a better Africa. Tragically, the vision remains a file too large to retrieve. As if disunity…
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Locating a Pitch for Contemporary Poetry
Ignatius Mabasa (Photo Credit: The Herald) Poetry has been long pigeonholed as a tradition past its prime. Impassioned obituaries are often directed at the genre whose mojo has vastly diminished in recent decades. As far as reception is concerned, the observations cannot be written off alarmist not least because poetry no longer commands a significant…
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African Writers Have a Pro-Poor Mandate
Wole Soyinka The mainstay of African literature is nationalist sentiment. From the outset, the continent’s creative canon has assumed an overtly patriotic tenor, varying between durable writing and political ear candy. While this undercurrent hasbeenlong directed against colonial injustice, there is need to locate new frontiers, chiefly inequality within Africa, which is by farthe biggest…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Wild, Wired World
Book: The Facebook Effect Author: David Kirkpatrick Publisher: Simon and Schuster (2010) ISBN: 978-1-4391-0211-4 Hands up whose planet is not the browser. Chances are you will also be signed up for this global netizenship on our next count. For better, for worse, the world has been reconfigured around the Internet. Hard times squeeze other industries…
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Mob 2.0 – Internet, Culture and the Economy
Add caption Book: The Cult of the Amateur Author: Andrew Keen Publisher: Currency (2007) The digitally enabled democratisation of information and creative content has been widely lauded as progressive. Most current discussions loosely converge around such catch-phrases as Web 2.0 revolution, ICTs and digitisation. One is either in the loop or finding their way in.…
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Stimulus for Proudly Zimbabwean Brands
SUPERSTAR: Oliver Mtukudzi Book: The Brand IdeologyAuthor: Oscar HabeenzuPublisher: The BehaviourReport.com (2013) Zimbabwe has not been spared by the cosmic juggernaut of globalisation.While indigenous culture has long been identified as a casualty of this phenomenon, homegrown brands are also desperately clutching at their life rafts. Others have ceded their stakes in the face of formidable competition from outside.…
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Is Scrapping Shakespeare a Sound Option?
Add caption William Shakespeare is not new to posthumous conspiracy. Latter-day men of letters such as G.B Shaw and Leo Tolstoy have questioned the universal acclamation with which Shakespeare is read. For them, the world is too generous in its estimation of the man whose work Swinburne calls “the crowning glory of genius, the final…
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Think Like a Saint, Write Like a Genius
Add caption Book: C. S. Lewis – A Life Author: Alister McGrath Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers (2013) ISBN: 978-1-4143-3935-1 It was an age of disbelief. Religion was in the bull’s eye of secularist missiles. A war of record proportions was dismantling the old order. Values which had held good for centuries were not spared. God…
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