Category: History
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“Gold Mafia” King Anointed MP as Zimbabwe Removes 108 Voted Officials
By Rukudzo Onai When Zimbabwean gold dealer Pedzai “Scott” Sakupwanya decided to chalk up some political adventures on a ruling-party ticket in the capital city, Harare, last year, he might have easily passed for a chancer. A hegemon in the more populous countryside, the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is out…
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Beyond Big-Man Palaver – Pan-Africanism’s Precarity Problem
Pan-Africanism means we will do it ourselves by doing it together. It grounds economic advancement, political liberation, cultural self-determination and territorial integrity in the unity of all African people on the continent and its diaspora. While the African Union has scored some important wins, African unity essentially fails along class lines.
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Burna Boy’s “20 10 20” – Protest Music, State Violence and Power of People Platforms
Burna Boy’s critical single “20 10 20” highlights the emancipatory triad of protest art, people power movements and social media. Young African protesters are using their own platforms to undermine the coordinated abuses of state violence and censorship.
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Pan-Africanism under Spotlight at the African Crossroads 2020 Hybrid Edition
New directions for Pan-Africanism, lockdown wellness, adaptive technologies and resistance music came under spotlight at the 2020 hybrid event of African Crossroads. The event merged immersive playlists with engaging, decolonial discussions.
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Bill Saidi Is Pioneer Extraordinaire
By Onai Mushava Bill Saidi was a proud and free spirit. He maintained a bare-knuckle approach to journalism, paid occasionally for standing in the way of power but became a presence wherever he turned. The black-and-white columnist mugshot with a Stalinist moustache arched above a stubborn smile had its day from Zimpapers to Modus Publications,…
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Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”
I am the savage you want to groom for the Queen’s kitchen, the eunuch in whose presence madams, Helen Zille and Marie Le Pen, can safely undress. I am the collateral damage underfoot grand crusades of civilisation, the scum of the Dark Continent who got away when you shovelled my people into a mass grave…
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Thomas Mapfumo, Mbira Masters and Rhodesian Gatekeepers
Zimbabwe’s mbira sound is spiritual tender in world music. The mbira, perhaps the Southern African country’s flagship culture export, is a defining influence on the country’s hit parade, spiritual landscape and social memory. Zimbabwean musicians who have made international headway, particularly Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo, Chiwoniso Maraire, Bhundu Boys and Four Brothers, have ridden on…
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Alexander Kanengoni on the Price of Independence
Echoing Silences, the riveting, mystic and brutal reconstruction of the liberation struggle by Alexander Kanengoni, is not merely a work of hindsight. The Chimurenga classic is the burden of the past on the present, the bearing of the present on the future, the arrow that courses every direction. It is a multi-layered reminder of the…
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Frantz Fanon, Race 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 long…
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Chinua Achebe on the Civic Mantle of the Artist
Add caption Chinua Achebe’s last book, “There was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra,” provoked charges of political heresy. The ethnic drift of the memoir polarised reception and reincarnated old hostilities, at least in the rhetorical domain. Achebe was accused of reconstructing the history into a partisan frame, an inevitable charge given that he…
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