Author: Takura Zhangazha
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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.… …
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Admiring What We Should Not: Africa’s Populist, Tragic Inferiority Complex
Click or not: Admiring What We Should Not: Africa’s Populist, Tragic Inferiority ComplexA colleague asked me recently, “What is the source of globally progressive ideas?” It was a very casual conversation and I replied that history provides key lessons of what can be considered ‘progressive’. By this, and with hindsight because the conversation did not last as long as it should have, I have had to think a little… …
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Elections Matter: What Happens in Between them Matters More
Click or not: Elections Matter: What Happens in Between them Matters MoreZimbabwean politics is as fluid as it is historically conservative. That is it is not characterized by a specific dynamism of new political ideas beyond its existential history and culture. Even with the advent of social media and its attendant populism. Our national political character and culture since independence in 1980 which we recently commemorated in Gokwe,… …
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We Are Not Numbers. We Are African and We Will Talk Back as Zimbabweans
Click or not: We Are Not Numbers. We Are African and We Will Talk Back as ZimbabweansThere is an ease with which we as Zimbabweans refuse to discuss international/foreign aid to our national existential circumstances. And here I am not yet talking about the Private Voluntary Organisations Act (PVOA) signed into law last Friday. Together with self-censorship about what the recent closure of the United States Agency of International Development (USAID)… …