Author: Takura Zhangazha
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In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan Africanism
Click or not: In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan AfricanismWe may have a new form of what I will refer to as a fake Pan Africanism in our African immediate consciousness. One that has recently found voice following the dramatic and tragic cutting of foreign aid assistance by the new United States government led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Accompanied by the quite… …
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Makandiwa’s “Main Actoring”: Religion as a Societal Ruse in Zimbabwe
Click or not: Makandiwa’s “Main Actoring”: Religion as a Societal Ruse in ZimbabweYou could almost laugh about it. Thousands of adult Zimbabweans flocking to a Sunday service to ‘see’ the power of ‘prophecy’. Over and about a US$ 1 million pledge on, you guessed it, the ability to prophesy what was in a religious leader’s pocket. These thousands of Zimbabweans were not only in the auditorium. They were also online and… …
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The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)
Click or not: The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)As an African you will regularly reflect on your being, your othered ‘blackness’ and also your material standing in a now highly globalized perception of what can be the ‘good life’. And in all of its mimicry of the colonial legacy of global north societies. Or if we were to be a little bit more… …
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Undemocratic, Ahistorical Harare City Modernisation, Contradictions and Colonial Legacy
Click or not: Undemocratic, Ahistorical Harare City Modernisation, Contradictions and Colonial LegacyZimbabwe’s urban landscape is changing form quite rapidly. Particularly where one considers new modern urban developments such as shopping malls away from city centres or new residential housing in the form of either ‘flats’ or ‘cluster’ residential compounds and new low-income suburbs. This is also in tandem with the expansion of privatized social service buildings… …