Category: Culture
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Zvihuta: End of the Road for Quail Farmers?
Quail eggs (Beyond Sustainable) Harare, ever the site of shortlived crazes, witnessed a sudden surge in the popularity of quail breeding early this year. The selling point of the new craze was the medicinal and nutritional properties of the birds, while farmers embraced it as a more lucrative avenue as compared to chicken farmer. For…
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Morality – Syllabus That Can’t Be Scrapped
President Robert Mugabe When education prepares students for a livelihood but not for life, its benefits can seldom be sustained. It is a glaring contradiction when space for acquiring self-sustaining skills equally becomes space for acquiring self-destroying behaviour. Tragically, this seems to be the case with education in Zimbabwe, at least to a minor but…
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Universities Must Grow Jobs
Higher Education Minister Prof Jonathan Moyo If universities remain mills of qualifications to get jobs, instead of capacitation to grow jobs, unemployment will remain a stubborn hurdle for Zimbabwean youths. An estimated 10, 000 university students graduating from Zimbabwe’s 13 universities every year are up against an austere patch in the job market. Universities have…
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Missing Angles in African Narratives
Add caption Book: The Bright Continent Author: Dayo Olopade Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 978-0-547-67831-3 The United Nations (UN) solicits European entries for a poster design competition to mark the tenth anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The winning entry by Stefan Einarsson from Iceland merges barefooted African children, apparently queuing for food at…
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The Future of Faith in the Public Sphere
Prof. Cornel West Religion and politics have a long pending case at the divorce court. Those for separation cite issues of compatibility. A militant coterie of this number has gone so far as to push for the ejection of every last vestige of religion from state and society. For them, politics is public and normatively…
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First Street’s Open-Air Preachers
Talent Chiwenga preaching along First Street If Harare is a site of spiritual contest, as its contrasting tendencies suggest, then First Street may well be the foremost stronghold of God’s militants. Hundreds converge at the corner of First Street and Speke Avenue every week day between 11AM and 8PM for marathon sermons by a varied…
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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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Jah Prayzah and the Sounds of the Far South
Jah Prayzah’s Jerusarema Jah Prayzah has thrown his keys to the urban contemporary movement down the floor of the sea. His latest album, Jerusarema, available through Jive Zimbabwe, tours deeper into the sounds of the far south. The eleven-track album features tracks “Jerusarema,” “Eriza,” “Roots,” with Luciano (the Messenger),” “Ndoenda,” “Daira,” Chinamira,” “Vanorodza Miseve,” “Tiise…
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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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