Author: Takura Zhangazha
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Revolutionary Pan African Cultural Icon #Kenya #Zimbabwe
Click or not: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Revolutionary Pan African Cultural Icon #Kenya #ZimbabweThe great African writer and intellectual, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, has left us here on earth. He passed away this week after a long illness as described by his family. I did not know or interact with him personally. I only met him via his amazing novels and Pan-African essays as I encountered them in the Waterfalls and… …
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Prof Masipula Sithole and Zimbabwe National Consciousness
Click or not: Prof Masipula Sithole and Zimbabwe National ConsciousnessA very recent event made me remember my primary Zimbabwean academic mentor, Professor Masipula Sithole. Someone had mentioned, in passing, what a new Catholic Pope Leo XIV would mean for global politics. I simply said let us wait and see. (And I wont return to this matter on global Catholicism in this article) But before I had answered… …
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Ramaphosa vs Trump: House or Field Negro? An Urgent Need for a Renewed, Organic Pan Africanism
Click or not: Ramaphosa vs Trump: House or Field Negro? An Urgent Need for a Renewed, Organic Pan AfricanismSouth African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently returned from what is now a controversial bi-lateral meeting with his USA counterpart Donald Trump. It was evidently controversial in its public live streaming by the mainstream media and social media platforms. This was mainly because the media framed it as ‘ambush’ of Ramaphosa by Trump on the issue of an… …
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Kagame, Ramaphosa are Not Being Honest With Africans
Click or not: Kagame, Ramaphosa are Not Being Honest With AfricansI have a number of friends in private business and by dint of the same, in private capital. Some of them are exceedingly wealthy. Others are in between. They have phases where they are thoroughly rich and phases where they sort of get by. But maintain their exorbitant lifestyles. This is all fair and fine.… …