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Self-belief critical to achieving Vision 2030

By Shephard Majengete THERE is a very close relationship between religion and politics that can easily translate to life or death of a race. And, if Africans cannot read this fact, that is exactly what is going to lead to the demise of whatever is left...

Threat to Africa’s health sovereignty …conspiracy theorists and WHO’s envisaged Pandemic Treaty?

By Prof Artwell Nhemachena THE problem of treaties in Africa is that they have historically preceded colonisation and have been used as tools to colonise Africans. Writing about the envisaged Pandemic Treaty, Al Jazeera, on March 30 2021, stated that: “The idea of such a treaty, aimed...

Religion and education setting us back …impediments to the ‘Unity Project’

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE founding fathers have been declared the best our motherland has ever produced, yet they failed to unite the motherland in 1963 and 1965.  This is my post mortem why this was so; and if we continue to worship the whiteman and not...

National agenda demands all our energy

WE, in the village, totally agree that we should build on the gains made in the last five years; that we are standing on terra firma is self-evident and cannot be disputed. “Together, we should be able to agree on a common programme of economic...

Child kidnappers on the prowl

EDITOR – EVERYONE at the scene ended up thanking the boy’s guardian angels after he escaped what could have been his last dance of life.  He (name withheld) was asked by some men in an unregistered beige twin cab, (which could be an SUV) for...

Our destiny is in our own hands

By Shephard Majengeta IT has been argued and proven that culture, and nothing else, is the soul of a nation.  And time and events have shown that those who lose their culture are as good as the dead.  People and civilisations that have disappeared or been swallowed...

Ubuntu/hunhu specs on Western electoral frames: Part One

By Vitalis Ruvando THIS article zooms hunhu/ubuntu lens on global north electoral imperatives, while other narratives may magnify hunhu/ubuntu goggles on  modern African electoral practices. Without doubt there is growing importance of knowledge and innovation in every human endeavor. As a people, as Africans, all our activities...

Know yourself

By Nthungo YaAfrika AS a race, do we know ourselves?  The answer to this question is crystal clear.  An explosive no.  We talk about Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, among other religions, but are deafeningly silent about our African religion, Ma’at or Maat, the mother of all religions. Ma’at...

Decolonising the mind: Part 20 …persecuted for what is good and just

By Abraham Mabvurira  A GLIMPSE into the vision, aims and mission of the constitution of ZANU PF vis-a-vis the Western agenda and mission will easily make one to understand why the imperialists are incessantly seeking to remove ZANU PF from power.  To make it more precise,...

Brits: Worry not about Zim

WE, in the village, cannot help but wonder why our ‘small’ nation keeps popping up in Britain’s conversations.  It appears Britons are ready to come to blows whenever  Zimbabwe is brought up in their discussions; they are passionate about our beloved motherland. The way Britons are...

A Zimbabwean mindset  …key to achieving vision 2030

By Shephard Majengeta IT is unfortunate that, for the longest time, blackness has been viewed as a curse, both by blacks and non-blacks. This view has debilitated the African race, with many up to today continuing to argue that blacks have achieved very little in ancient...

Coloniality of research agenda in Africa: Part Two …of valuefull and valueless science

By Professor Artwell Nhemachena HISTORY has shown that research can be conducted unethically, and even unlawfully such that some sections of humanity are, and have been, actually harmed. But then, the danger is that once relational ontologies displace the primacy of the human entities in research,...

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