Category: Nhoroondo
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DEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange
Click or not: DEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake SamkangeDEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange Mabhuku ake anosanganisira African Saga: An Introduction to African History (1971), anomutsidzira kwazvo ruremekedzo rwatinozvipa sevanhu vatema, uye akanyorwa panguva iyo vanamuzvinafundo vazhinji vaidukupisa rudzi rwedu vachikusha nhema dzeusvetasimba. Stanlake Samkange akavhurira Mashonaland musuwo weyunivhesiti paakatora dhigiri rayo rekutanga muna1947 paFort Hare University College. Kudzidza pachikomo kwaiera makore aya,… …
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Beyond Big Man Palaver: Pan-Africanism in 2022
Click or not: Beyond Big Man Palaver: Pan-Africanism in 2022Pan-Africanism means we will do it ourselves by doing it together. It grounds economic advancement, political liberation, cultural self-determination and territorial integrity in the unity of all African people on the continent and its diaspora. While the African Union has scored some important wins, African unity essentially fails along class lines. …
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INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe – When Blood Is Thick as Ink
Click or not: INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe – When Blood Is Thick as InkA year after Munhumumwe’s “Makorokoto” won him Radio 2’s first independence-era number one song, his cousin Zimunya published “And Now the Poets Speak”, co-edited with Mudereri Kadhani, and set the tone for new Zimbabwean poetry. Few years later, he had written well enough to be considered Zimbabwe’s foremost poet. What did it mean for Zimunya… …
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King Mswati III’s Government under Fire for the “Targeted Killing” of People’s Hero Thulani Maseko
Click or not: King Mswati III’s Government under Fire for the “Targeted Killing” of People’s Hero Thulani MasekoThulani Maseko (1 March 1970 – 21 January 2023) was fatally stopped in his tracks as he campaigned for electoral reforms in Eswatini. The assassination has attracted global attention on the extent of repression in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Calls to hold King Mswati III’s government to account for the “targeted killing” are getting louder. …
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BOOK REVIEW| Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Portrait of Emlanjeni”
Click or not: BOOK REVIEW| Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Portrait of Emlanjeni”The idealised landscape of Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s new novel, A Portrait of Emlanjeni, is animated by the spirit of the people, their community ties and abiding regard for tradition. Ngwenya brings the indigenous and official justice systems into conversation, broadening them to make space for women. …
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BOOK REVIEW| Chigozie Obioma’s “The Fishermen”
Click or not: BOOK REVIEW| Chigozie Obioma’s “The Fishermen”Although he has already been called the heir of Chinua Achebe, Obioma’s mastery of the questions of the day and rich blend of influences uploads into the African canon a mythic feat uniquely his own. An undercurrent of tragedy courses through the novel, several layers of memory foreboding loss and destruction. …
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Charles Mungoshi, through the Eyes of His Peers
Click or not: Charles Mungoshi, through the Eyes of His PeersTo hear fellow writers tell it, Mungoshi’s first language was laughter; and his physical address, the habit-forming bottle. He stars in memories of young love, and artist encounters in Zengeza and Kambuzuma shebeens as a man of disarming charm and a writerly ego only outsized by his wit and grit. …
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How Mono Mukundu Got His Groove
Click or not: How Mono Mukundu Got His GrooveNot yet 50, Mono has played more than 1000 albums, sungura, chimurenga, reggae, rhumba, even holding his own as the go-to guitarist for the Pentecostal community. …
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Bill Saidi Was a Renaissance Man
Click or not: Bill Saidi Was a Renaissance ManBesides, the president was already unimpressed with Saidi’s failure to write about humanism (the philosophy Kaunda wears on a t-shirt and preaches from a bicycle in history books). One lucky pardon from the president, after Saidi had managed to get himself fired from an important editorship, was punctuated with the singular instruction: “Write about humanism!” …
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Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”
Click or not: Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”Reply to “The Case for Colonialism” My kin didn’t go to your cities because they were starstruck by towering lights, wanted to read your Dickens or run your municipal errands. They went there because you took their farms, stole their cattle, raped their women, drove them to dry reserves and siphoned their wealth to the… …