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  • Juju, Ganga and Mafia at Dynamos

    Juju, Ganga and Mafia at Dynamos

    Zimbabwe’s global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul. Dynamos Football Club legend Memory Mucherahowa’s new book, “Soul of Seven Million Dreams”, refreshingly does away with airbrushing strokes and puts the health of a national institution up for…

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  • Kendrick Lamar – Rhyming at Nobel’s Door?

    Kendrick Lamar – Rhyming at Nobel’s Door?

    Kendrick Lamar, the most lethal warhead in rap’s disruptive echo chamber, is ever blazing new territory. He has ego-tripped on Uncle Sam’s toes, emerged as the Pope in a genre not known for its Bible-thumbing, outfoxed Rupert Murdoch’s talking heads and jazzed up black self-love. If hip-hop is the CNN of the black community as…

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  • Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”

    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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