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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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Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe
Click or not: Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in KwekweSyndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe What was the divorce album he wrote his first wife, Melody, upon settling in the City of Gold? Which hometown rockstars did he kick it off with, having arrived from Harare without a band? What about his studio correspondence with Daisy, before and after Kwekwe? Oliver Mtukudzi slept… …
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MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”
Click or not: MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”Catching Feelings is a South African romantic comedy, written, directed and led by Kagiso Lediga. The Netflix thinkpic brings together sex, race and literature as seen through the insecurities of its cruelly self-probing lead character Max Matshane. …
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OBITUARY| Cont Mhlanga Was Relentlessly Committed to Arts Development and Free Speech
Click or not: OBITUARY| Cont Mhlanga Was Relentlessly Committed to Arts Development and Free SpeechZimbabwean dramatist Continueloving “Cont” Mhlanga died in Bulawayo on Monday (1 August), aged 64. The highly regarded theatre director also made his mark as screenwriter, actor, arts manager and broadcaster. Banned and arrested by Robert Mugabe’s government, he was also fearlessly committed to free speech. …
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Drunken Piper – King Kwela Spokes Mashiyane
Click or not: Drunken Piper – King Kwela Spokes MashiyaneKwela pennywhistler Johannes “Spokes” Mashiyane (1933-1972) is one of the most influential names in African music. Sitting atop the loose genealogy of South African movements from kwela and mbaqanga to kwaito and amapiano, Mashiyane is also an old head in the township music renaissance of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Lesotho and other scenes. …
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The Butterfly Dialectic
Click or not: The Butterfly DialecticThe 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”… …