WE, in the village, value knowledge that is applicable to our day-to-day social and economic activities.
There should be a very close link between the school system and every other sector of our society.
The education sector has to be the central pillar of our country’s...
EDITOR — WHEN our critics write about Zimbabwe as having been the breadbasket of Southern Africa during the 1980s and early 1990s, they are obviously conflating the achievements scored in health and education sectors together with some achievements in agriculture whose benefits were predominantly...
By Prof Artwell Nhemachena
IT is time for African scholars of politics and international relations, government studies, political sociology and political anthropology to stop tinkering with theories that do not advance African interests.
Advancing the African condition requires theories premised on African priorities and interests beyond...
By Nthungo YaAfrika
SOME uninformed modern Africans do not know who the Nahasis are, but this is not surprising as their story is not found in the so-called ‘modern’ education system here in the motherland.
If the books by Cheik Anta Diop and G.M. James, among...
By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere
IN the middle of biological threats, having a biological hazard-free Zimbabwe is possible.
But, only a robust bio-strategy is the answer to that microbiology menace of mass destruction.
One renowned philosopher once said, being at peace with people will not have...
WE, in the village, like everyone else value education, that is why we will sell our cattle, goats, grow peanuts to send our children to school.
As a nation we are tweaking and fixing our education system to totally dismantle the colonial legacy and significant...
EDITOR–AS Zimbabweans we have developed a culture of criticising and complaining, unfairly and without the full facts.
A lot which is untrue is being said about the recently announced National Budget. Remember we have to raise every dollar of the budget ourselves and nothing comes...
By Vitalis Ruvando
Dawn reckons for the “Ubuntulisation” of Western electoral urgings that are affecting Afro-humanness.
Ubuntu leadership code comes first.
In the courts of the “Designer of the land”: Muwari-Muari: God of Matopo hills, the Voice from Vatisingazivi: That-which-nothing-greater-can-be-conceived said “leaders must rule by protecting thy...
By Professor Artwell Nhemachena
IT does not make sense to insist on a balance of power in the political realm alone such that the economic realm, which is much more important, is not balanced in the sense of ensuring economic balance of power.
It does not...
By Abraham Mabvurira
WHAT is so wrong about a nation full of young boys and girls who so love their nation to the extent of willingly laying down their lives in defense and protection of it?
Of course, nothing is bad about that -since patriotism has...
EDITOR — AS Zimbabwe’s economy improves and some people finally find their footing, economic wise, there are a number of infrastructural development projects (homes, commercial stands) ‘going up’. The projects have created jobs that have enabled many to fend for their families, but one...
By Artwell Nhemachena
ONE of the biggest problems in the 21st Century is ideological contradiction.
Whereas Marxism teaches us that we can only become genuinely free once we adopt the dictatorship of the proletariat, global capitalism teaches us to have a morbid fear of ‘dictatorships’ in Africa.
We...
