Monthly Archives: May, 2022

Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death of sungura legend Leonard Dembo.  He died in 1996.  Dembo’s real name was Leonard Tazvivinga as opposed to Kwangwari Gwaindepi as is widely reported.  In fact, Kwangwari Gwaindepi was his grandfather and that...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the US, was asked by one African- American woman from Harlem what plans he had for a free South Africa since all newly independent African countries never seemed to have the...

Africa Day …rediscovering the self through art and culture

IT is fortuitous for the African continent that Culture Week and Africa Day take...

Why Zimbabwe keeps rising

JUST as with previous elections since the turn of the millennium when the country...

 Africa must take stock 

 We celebrate yet another Africa Day.  But what are we really celebrating?  The onslaught on Africa...

 Bullies have no place in Africa 

 THE US proposed Act to punish African governments that Uncle Sam deems to be...

Kombis need regulation

EDITOR — I AM happy that the transport crisis of the previous weeks has...

I am because of Zimbabwe

By Tawanda Chenana IN 1992, vagaries of the weather and ESAP had battered our nation and...

Patriotic front formations: Part 16…whats good for the goose…

BRITISH colonial governments across the world felt it their patriotic obligation to contribute forces...

 Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 19…disintergration of the Mutapa Empire  

THE Portuguese enjoyed active commercial and political control with the Mwenemutapa Kingdom by the...

Gendron and US endless race problems 

INSTEAD of reparation and reconciliation following a long ugly history, racism narratives are still...

 Of monkeypox and racism 

 By Elizabeth Sitotombe  MONKEYPOX cases are rapidly spreading all over Europe. Since May 13 2022,...

A ‘Putin’ required on the motherland

By Nthungo Ya Afrika IS Vladimir Putin, Russian Federation President, a warmonger or a uniter...

CAF venue mockery

IT is supposed to be the biggest club match on the continent, but CAF...

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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...

What is ‘truth’?: Part Three . . . can there still be salvation for Africans 

By Nthungo YaAfrika  TRUTH takes no prisoners.  Truth is bitter and undemocratic.  Truth has no feelings, is...