By Binyavanga Wainaina
ALWAYS use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘safari’ in your title.
Subtitles may include the words: ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’, or ‘Bygone’.
Also useful are words such as guerillas’, ‘timeless’, ‘primordial’ and ‘tribal’.
Note that ‘people’ means...
By Shephard Majengeta
VISION 2030 of an upper-middle income economy will be realised.
However, the journey, naturally, will not be an easy one.
The path to Vision 2030 is fraught with challenges and one of the biggest ones is ‘extra lessons’ in schools.
While ‘extra lessons’ are a...
The abridged story of Cde Thula Bopela
AS a young man in the early 1960s, South African liberation struggle fighter Thula Bopela sacrificed his boyhood dream of becoming a lawyer to follow his duty as a Zulu man to be a warrior against apartheid.
Bopela joined...
EDITOR’S NOTE
WE begin another new year and are presented yet another opportunity to work for the motherland.
Since the inception of the Second Republic, we have recorded growth every year.
In the Second Republic are servants we trust to guide the nation in the face of...
COMMENT
A DEFINING feature of the liberation era was the determination never to lose sight of the goals of the struggle, despite the birth pangs which were an inclusive painful necessity.
Nothing was ever handed to us on a silver platter.
And to succeed, everything had to...
WE, in the village, are grateful for yet another year to do better, to grow and contribute more to the motherland.
As a people, as a nation, we must take stock — it is imperative that we pause and reflect.
As much as we value our...
By Prof Artwell Nhemachena
CAPITALISM has weaponised multiplicities of individuals, institutions, organisations and States such that it is now dictating through these multiplicities and pluralities even as it blindfolds humanity into thinking they equal freedom and liberation.
Liberalisation, pluralisation and multiplicities are not necessarily liberating, particularly...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
ZAMBIA’s ‘Kenyan-style’ moment-of-madness-cancellation of legal international hunting tender was recently denounced and ruled as illegal by the country’s high court, giving local hunting communities’ hope that uninterrupted international hunting will return in 2024.
Largely influenced by the animal rights extremist...
WE, in the village, value our land more than anything.
When one becomes an adult, one is given a piece of land where he/she should start in life.
The land question is always with us.
What have you built on your land; what crops are you growing...
COMMENT
TODAY, December 22 marks one of the most important holidays, Unity Day, on the calendar of this country’s liberation history, as it brought an abrupt halt to hostilities based on tribal grounds then bedevilling our polity.
Just after independence, in 1980, some disturbances in Matabeleland...
Letter of the week
EDITOR – NO doubt Christmas is a great time for us and is the most beautiful time for family.
In any case, it’s now a broadly accepted way of celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Watching TV, social and print media, conversations and habits,...
By Shephard Manjengeta
HE story of Peter, the disciple of Jesus, walking on water, is loaded with very important lessons, especially for us Zimbabweans as we work towards achieving Vision 2030 of an upper-middle income economy.
It is a story which applies to our own nation...
