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Month: October 2015

  • The Wiring of the Mind

    Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind Book: The Future of the MindAuthor: Michio KakuPublisher: Doubleday (2014)ISBN: 978-0-385-53083-5 If there is a short circuit in the wiring of genius, it is its incapacity to understand itself. The human mind is the perhaps most fascinating example of this contradiction. It seems as though the smarter the… …

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  • Three Gospel Singers

    Takesure Zamah Ncube performs with Joyous Celebration They have kept us posted with mellow jams, but popular credit has been long time coming for Zimbabwean gospel music’s trending acts.  We look at recent arrivals and persistent pilgrims on the Christian entertainment circuit, and the journeys that took them to acclaim.  More than just torching up… …

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  • MADMEN AND INTROVERTS: ZIMBABWE'S VISUAL ARTISTS

    Dominic Benhura (Photo: Shona Art) Book: Mawonero/Umbono Edited by Ignatius Mabasa Publisher: Kerber Verlag (2015) ISBN: 978-3-86678-937-1 Zimbabwe’s earliest patriarchs were masters of art. The keynote symbols of our national identity are drawn from their visual heritage. San rock art prefaces the compendium of local history, while the Zimbabwe Bird, a soapstone legend of the… …

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  • MBARE'S SICK UNDERBELLY

    Mbare is the first home of Harare vendors, generational music talent, a storied stadium behind many a cheer and heartbreak, and the nerve centre of countrywide bus tours. Along with a century of cultural strivings, these claims give Mbare a cosmopolitan resume, making it one of the most famous suburbs in the country, and for… …

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  • WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENT TAX KNOWLEDGE?

    Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa The value of knowledge, chiefly its facility to maximise the human potential, is geographically agnostic. Knowledge is the foremost resource for any economy, and failure to access, utilise and regenerate it is often the difference between power and poverty. Fareed Zakaria’s 2015 book, “In Defense of a Liberal Education,” assigns the… …

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  • MUNGOSHI'S HUMOUR MILL AND FIRESIDE TALES

    Charles Mungoshi (Photo: goodreads.com) Book: The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk Author: Charles Mungoshi Publisher: Baobab Book (1998) ISBN: 1-77909-006-4 Poetry is the most obscure stroke on Charles Mungoshi’s life-size canvas. The accomplished artist’s poetry anthology, “The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk,” has not matched his prose and drama in popular reception. However, one may… …

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  • STITCHIE'S LOVE LETTER TO JAH

    Stitchie (Photo: groovinradiony.com) When dancehall singjay Stitchie became a candidate for baptism, he read a new meaning into his stage name instead of dropping it. The unlikely candidate reasoned that while the comic stagecraft of his days in the world had left people in stitches, the post-conversion Stitchie would stitch people’s lives back to God.… …

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