The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912
By Thomas Pakenham
Published by Phoenix Press (2001)
ISBN: 1 84212488 X
AFRICANS resisted colonialism in different ways when imperialists decided to slice and share the cake (Africa) in the guise of spreading Christianity and civilisation.
In some African States, active resistance was a...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
EVENTS culminating in the Africa Day commemorations on May 25 2021 could have been the basis for construction of several docu-dramas illustrating the eternity of African memory which the ubiquitous dariro represents.
Let me illustrate these possibilities by enumerating some of the...
THERE is something disturbing about the attitude of the US and its allies towards African countries, Zimbabwe in particular.
Theirs is a case of ‘Do as I say, not as I do’.
For example, in the West, there is nothing as sacred as freedom...
FORMER colonial powers, that claim to be champions of observance of human rights, have strangely persistently refused to apologise for the atrocities and genocide they committed in their former colonies in Africa.
Germany, Britain, France and Belgium are some of the Western powers that have...
Try Again
By Chiedza Musengezi
Source: Women Plus Magazine 3 (2) May - July 1998
Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network
LATE last month, Zimbabweans witnessed the unveiling of Mbuya Nehanda’s statue in the Harare Central Business District.
Mbuya Nehanda, a First Chimurenga heroine, occupies a special place in...
DID you know that only 12 African countries recognise May 25 as a public holiday.
And there are 54 countries in Africa!
This is really sad.
It has been agreed that Africa Day provides an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of the peoples and governments of Africa...
A STANDOUT embodiment of what patriotism is, is none other than Mbuya Nehanda – that iconic heroine of the First Cimurenga, whose statue was unveiled by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the country’s capital Harare on Africa Day, May 25 2021.
Patriotism can be described as...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
THE ego can be defined as the raw natural material of the human being from which the family and society (using relationships and institutional structures) draw elements with which to build that personality.
Personality is the sociable, relational human character which...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
THE Bantu words kuumba (to mould or to create); muumbi (potter or the Creator); and dumba (the hut/house in which a child is born and kept until the umbilical cord falls off) are all related.
They can also be linked to...
OUR liberation struggle is something we must never stop talking about because our nation is anchored on it.
The Americans, for example, never tire of talking about their founding fathers and the ideals they set for their nation.
Therefore, as long as we have Zimbabweans in...
THE recent France-Africa Summit held in Paris demonstrates to what extent our colonisers never want to lose control of their divided former colonies.
Indeed, the Berlin Conference of 1884 was never meant to see this resource rich continent ever united again after the partition.
There are...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
ELSEWHERE, I have observed that the African relational philosophy of hunhu teaches that there are three fundamental bases of hunhu/ubuntu, that is, bases for what makes a human being:
Where Renē Descartes, as one of the founders of Euro-American linear philosophy, said:...
