By Takura Zhangazha * I first encountered Steve Biko’s collection of Black Consciousness articles via the book titled ‘I Write What I like’ in 1997 at the Dzivaresekwa District Council Library in Harare, Zimbabwe. I was initially drawn to it on the basis of its somewhat stubborn title. Being young and looking for some sort…
By Takura Zhangazha* Within the context of the Covid 19 pandemic in Zimbabwe there are increasingly many social and economic injustice issues that are being muted. Most times deliberately and in rarer cases by default. In the process there is also the rarely mentioned factor of class that emerges as a result of the fact…
By Takura Zhangazha* There are many ways of perceiving, imagining and even desiring Zimbabwe. Be it from lived experience in-country, assumptions of enlightenment (education) or an outsider/external comparative eye view. What is evident is that the narratives hitherto and thereto are many. Some more historical or organic, others more populist and others that may be…
By Takura Zhangazha* It is an interesting historical fact that most of the newer/modernist thinking around Zimbabwe’s liberation emerged from the Diaspora. Or at least from experiences by those who were to become leaders of the same either as nationalists, war veterans and activists in one form or the other. This was mainly via them…
