Category: Zvenyika

  • The Butterfly Dialectic

    The Butterfly Dialectic

    The Butterfly Dialectic Karl Marx is out of a job in black America. His last prophet, Cornel West, beats a grumpy retreat from blackface capital everywhere he turns. The culture, with its emphasis on appearance and acquisition, is not so much an ideology as it is an ontology. “Money trees is the perfect place  for shade”…

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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens up on Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” Mnangagwa

    Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens up on Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” Mnangagwa

    Zimbabwean soldiers allegedly raped 17 women and brutally assaulted many others on sensitive organs during the state crackdown on protests against a 150 % fuel price increase last month. Government has denied the claims of the women, who are currently in NGO safe houses, citing that only one of them has made a police report.…

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  • Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”

    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…

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  • BOOK LAUNCH| Fay Chung’s “Zimbabwe Looking East”

    BOOK LAUNCH| Fay Chung’s “Zimbabwe Looking East”

    BOOK LAUNCH| Fay Chung’s “Zimbabwe Looking East” Fay Chung, an educationist of Chinese descent, recently published a book called “Zimbabwe Looking East” to explore the efficacy of the policy and to explore further possibilities from the current matrix. A climate of economic indeterminacy outlined Zimbabwe at the inception of the unity government in 2009.  Coalition…

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