THIS year’s National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) which were held last week at the Bulawayo Rainbow hotel exposed some serious flaws that the organisers of the event, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) must pay attention to if they are to be successful...
THERE is an entwined relationship between language and culture where one represents the other.
Language is used as a way of signalling identity with one cultural group and difference from others.
Due to globalisation, it has become trendy in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa to...
IN my past installments, I once hinted that theory or ideology is critical in understanding any literary work.
Let me further clarify this point before I take you through this complex novel which deceives by its seemingly simple plot and language.
It is true...
OFTEN, we think of Christian missions as being led by mostly white men carrying Bibles to the remotest parts of Africa, preaching the gospel of salvation from sin.
In most cases, it was indeed the white man who led the missionary zeal not only...
AS you travel from Masvingo on the Masvingo — Mutare road; about 80 kilometres east of Masvingo, you get to a business centre called Maregere.
At that business centre you branch off, turning right and going in the south-easterly direction on a dirt road....
EDITOR – FOR years now the European Union (EU) has been on our shoulders.
However, Zimbabwe is also being sacrificed by other fellow Africans who behave as if they have seen it all.
Botswana, for example, what kind of independence did they want us to achieve...
By Chakamwe Chakamwe
WHEN the great black American freedom fighter Malcom X was assassinated by a hired racist killer, the United States racist establishment’s propaganda machine said that that iconic black freedom fighter deserved to be murdered because as far as they were concerned, Malcom...
AS highlighted in earlier series, Yahshua (Christ) was a black man.
His first followers commonly described as his disciples were also black.
These are the people who continued his mission after the crucifixion. Throughout his life, Yahshua’s main concern was finding ‘the lost sheep...
By Dr Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura
The mouse and her children
AFRICAN people say: The mouse goes everywhere – into rich people’s houses and into poorest people’s houses, too.
In the old days, the mouse made stories from all that she saw.
Stories were her children....
By Munhamu Pekeshe
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Ordinary Level results are out and champagne bottles are still popping for a job well done.
We are told the pass rate jumped from 18 percent to an incredible 20 percent.
Credit is duly delivered to...
FOR more than 14 years Morgan Tsvangirai was the darling of the West, who sponsored and pampered him as their right man to effect regime change in Zimbabwe.
The beating of Elton Mangoma and Tendai Biti and the violence rocking the MDC-T party could...
By Siyabonga Madayi
MONUMENTAL preservations go along with attempts to keep the history of a people alive.
They ride on the backbone of accomplishments which can never be wished away.
Enter the Zimbabwean people’s struggle and there entangled within it are a lot of figures...
