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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...

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Western civilisation owed to Africans and Asians

BEFORE the West became the leading civilisation, the East, particularly China, occupied this high...

The Christs are black and African

THE Western perception of Christ is purposely distorted.  Christ is depicted as a Caucasian man...

Exploring ancient African traditional beliefs

WESTERN education, particularly science, tries to teach us that human beings are equivalent to...

Europe’s dark ages now in Africa

AFRICA is contemporarily classified as a ‘Third World’, ‘underdeveloped’ or ‘poor continent’.  Yet even the...

Capitalism and the destruction of stocking

I OFTEN hear businessmen and women saying they are increasing prices of their products,...

Revisiting festive season … year can’t begin in winter or summer

CHRISTMAS is largely regarded as the most important day of the year by many...

Alternate systems of governance …Western ‘democracy’ not the alpha and omega

WESTERN ‘democracy’ has limited and inhibited progress and development in developing countries; it is...

Western democracy vis-a-vis Africa: Part One… whites trying to spoil Africa

THE US was first inhabited by blacks who made up the ancient tribes of...

African influence in East Asia …similarities between East Asians and blacks

FOR the past few weeks we have been looking at the presence of blacks...

Linguistic evidence of the presence of Blacks in East Asia

IN East Asia, there are many words that are of African origin.  These stand as...

Presence of blacks in ancient Asia

IT would be surprising to realise that black people lived in Far East Asia...

Remba concepts Zimbos need to know: Part Three …what is shinja?

SHINJA is a Remba term which literally means ‘clean slaughter’.  This slaughtering technique is performed...

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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...