Category: Books
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Fareed Zakaria’s Stimulus for Scholarship
Fareed Zakaria stresses a point Book: In Defense of a Liberal Education Author: Fareed Zakaria Publisher: W.W Norton & Company (2015) ISBN: 978-0-393-24769-5 The incredible facility of science in the quest to enhance life and knowledge has earned it universal appeal. Everyone seems eager to get a feel of the trending technology; to keep in…
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Unravelling the Wiring of the Mind
Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind Book: The Future of the MindAuthor: Michio KakuPublisher: Doubleday (2014)ISBN: 978-0-385-53083-5 If there is a short circuit in the wiring of genius, it is its incapacity to understand itself. The human mind is the perhaps most fascinating example of this contradiction. It seems as though the smarter the…
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Mazwi – The Bookstore of the Future?
Mazwi shopkeeper Tafadzwa Makura Imagine a world where anyone can wake up a published author. Mazwi Online Shop promises just that – and to abolish several other publishing protocols. Forget about a publisher sitting on your manuscript – you can be now your own agent, editor, publisher, vendor and cheerleader from an integrative vendor dashboard. …
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Hunger Management and Power Processes
The Hunger Games Trilogy Many rivers, thirsty children, burning streets.“The Hunger Games” trilogy is an allegory of our time.In the highly regarded set, featuring “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire,” and “Mockingjay,” Suzanne Collins cuts away from the moody complexes, which are the materials for young adult fiction, to a frighteningly real world, our own.The set…
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Locating a Pitch for the Creative Process
Bob Marley’s Zimbabwe If environment is a significant factor in the creative process, which situation could be best favoured by the muses? If bends in the road of life are sometimes resolved as masterpieces in the arena of art, does class have a bearing on creativity? Whose workflow merits lasting reception: the activist, the isolate,…
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“Svinga reNduri” Stokes Shona Poetry Renaissance
Rabison Shumba Rabison Shumba credits social media as a bouncing board for the creative energy captured in new poetry anthology “Dzinonyandura: Svinga Renduri.” The varied collection, featuring 16 mostly new poets, is an inadvertent outcome of Shumba’s “a poem a day challenge” on Facebook early last year. A sustained response to the challenge facilitated the…
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Love Crave, Web Craze and Sex Texts
Beyond Rebellion Book: Beyond Rebellion Author: Oscar Habeenzu Publisher: iNduku Publishing Group (2013) ISBN: 989-0-7974-5680-8 “Beyond Rebellion” is an unsettling case against a morally adrift generation. The inordinate promotion of sexual expressions in music, movies, magazines, social media and peer influence is more disempowering than is generally acknowledged. Zimbabwe’s sex-captive society is culturally inverted in…
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Shona Masters and Disruptors
Dominic Benhura (Photo: Shona Art) Book: Mawonero/Umbono Edited by Ignatius Mabasa Publisher: Kerber Verlag (2015) ISBN: 978-3-86678-937-1 Zimbabwe’s earliest patriarchs were masters of art. The keynote symbols of our national identity are drawn from their visual heritage. San rock art prefaces the compendium of local history, while the Zimbabwe Bird, a soapstone legend of the…
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Tobaiwa Mudede and the Black Woman’s Burden
Registrar-General Tobaiwa (Photo: The Chronicle) Registar General Tobaiwa Mudede flared up an interesting debate last year when he branded birth control drugs a form of Western conspiracy to keep Africa underdeveloped. Mudede attributed the upsurge of cancer, hypertension, induced obesity and other maladies among women to the use of family planning drugs. He protested that…
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Government Taxes Knowledge to Death
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa The value of knowledge, chiefly its facility to maximise the human potential, is geographically agnostic. Knowledge is the foremost resource for any economy, and failure to access, utilise and regenerate it is often the difference between power and poverty. Fareed Zakaria’s 2015 book, “In Defense of a Liberal Education,” assigns the…
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