Dr Tony Monda

FOZEU’s call for strike…an attempt at provoking anarchy

By Elizabeth Sitotombe IN an attempt to sow anarch across the country by calling for a nationwide strike among teachers, the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators’ Union (FOZEU) has taken on the role of the aggressor. FOZEU, while relatively unknown, comprises members who have long been a...

Chitepo’s fight for land

This story was first published on 21/03/2016 By Patience Rusare LAND ranked highest among the grievances that motivated the black majority to launch the First and Second Chimurenga/Imfazwe to free the country from colonial oppression. It is worth noting that in the period preceding the liberation war, mwana wevhu/umntwana...

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Were sculptors of Zimbabwe Birds women?

THE notion of who built Great Zimbabwe assumes that the male conceptualised, designed and...

Great Zimbabwe: An indigenous architectural legacy

WRITTEN at the height of the liberation struggle in 1978, the poem ‘Zimbabwe’ by...

Colonial destruction of Zimbabwe’s heritage

WHEN I was asked to introduce myself as a student in the US, in...

Colonial education limited career choices for girls

IN high-income countries, as many as 95 percent girls as boys attend primary and...

When victory medals resemble badges of oppression

BRITISH colonial war medals from India to China, Canada to Australia and Africa were...

Who says there was no African art?

By Dr Tony Monda IN 1957, a new national gallery – the Rhodes National Gallery...

Zimbabwean avian sculpture…..exploring repositories of indigenous knowledge

GIVEN the Zimbabwe Bird is the symbol of the nation, it comes as no...

Zim needs coherent indigenous language policy

IN a research undertaking that began in 2006, Dr Arthur Makanda observes that in...

Zimbabwe’s Tower of Babel …re-discovering the mother tongue

By Dr Tony Monda LANGUAGE is defined as a system for the expression of thoughts,...

‘Church and State make strange bed-fellows’

“The imitation of the victor by the vanquished may be an unconscious phenomena, or...

Of pledges and patriotism……are we truly proudly Zimbabwean?

“Although it is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, it is not absurd...

Africa Day: Celebrating the art of a continent

AT the second pan-African Cultural Congress of 2009, it was discussed that: “The development...

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FOZEU’s call for strike…an attempt at provoking anarchy

By Elizabeth Sitotombe IN an attempt to sow anarch across the country by calling for...

Chitepo’s fight for land

This story was first published on 21/03/2016 By Patience Rusare LAND ranked highest among the grievances...

Winning mindset in post-elections

WE, in the village, are known for our resilience, we never give up and...

Import of US illegal sanctions

By Jonathan N. Moyo TWENTY-ONE years ago, on March 6 2003, US President George W....