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Zambia’s warning to Britain‘…don’t cause wildlife loss’

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA THE president of Zambia National Community Resources Board Association (ZNCRBA), George Tembo, recently said that the British Government’s recent announcement to ban international trophy hunting imports from Africa will inevitably cause loss of Zambia’s wildlife. Therefore, Tembo said, the Boris John administration...

Vestiges of colonialism…generational colonial mentality in the UK

By Special Matarirano WHEN a wish for an archaic, deposed and heinous order still guides the attitude of a former superpower towards a third line country, it means all attempts to let bygones be bygones have failed to yield desired results and it’s back to...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Seven‘… will you buy out the white farmers?’

THE Battle of Mavhonde, coming shortly after Mapai, had again dismally failed to strengthen the Rhodesian hand at the Lancaster House Conference. To the nationalist question: “Will you buy out the white farmers?”  Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Edward G. Lanpher claims his answer was: “No....

Religion and colonisation: Part 13 …the rise of African initiated churches

TODAY, there are thousands of African initiated churches (AICs) found all across Africa. It is estimated that at least 36 percent of Africa’s population belong to an indigenous African initiated church.    These are particularly well-documented in Southern Africa, where there are more than 10 000...

Chimoio the last bridge: Part One

RHODESIANS described Chimoio (November 23 1977) as the “…most mind-boggling special operations victory in history,” when in fact Chimoio was their final undoing. There can be no victory to celebrate for any sane human being when you have murdered defenceless civilians, schoolchildren, patients in hospital wards and amputees. The Rhodesians celebrated, but it was to...

Omicron variant: World in panic mode

By Elizabeth Sitotombe AS countries rush to vaccinate their people against the COVID-19 virus, new versions of the virus continue to emerge, striking fear into the hearts of many all over the world. There have been 13 different variants of COVID-19 identified since the pandemic outbreak.  More...

Why MDC is afraid of elections

RECENT reports that the MDC Alliance is mulling pulling out of next year’s by-elections and the 2023 polls did not come as a surprise but only served to confirm what this publication has stated in the past few months.  The opposition is in disarray and...

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 the Olmecs, Washitaw, Maya, Yamasee and others.  Later they were joined by a Mongol contribution from the Far East which crossed the Bering Strait into North America and trekked south.  These would...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Six…Lanpher was a snitch

ON June 25 2002, Charles Stuart Kennedy interviewed former black US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Edward G. Lanpher, who summed up his assignment as US representative at the 1979 Lancaster House Conference in the words: “My role was to represent the US. Our role was to...

Is there justice in the US?

THERE is need to look at the problems of guns and justice being brought to the fore following the decision by US Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder to acquit the now 18-year-old former police youth cadet from Antioch, Illinois,  Kyle Rittenhouse, on Friday,...

Religion and colonisation: Part 12 … the rise of African indigenous churches

AFRICA is a vast continent encompassing both geographic variation and tremendous cultural diversity, religious African beliefs and practices.   Each of the modern sovereign nations in Africa today, has its own particular history and each in turn comprises numerous ethnic groups with different languages and...

On the battlefield of culture …we must return to the basics

By Nthungo YaAfrika ‘ON The battlefield of culture’ is the title used by the late Cheik Anta Diop when dedicating his book, Civilisation or Barbarism, An Authentic Anthropology, to his late dear friend Alioune Diop.  I will quote verbatim the dedication. “I dedicate this book to the...

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