Author: Takura Zhangazha
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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… …
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Age, Conversation and Changing Consciousness in Zimbabwe
Click or not: Age, Conversation and Changing Consciousness in ZimbabweI have a couple of friends that like to remember what they refer to as the good old Zimbabwe days. Be it when they were in primary or secondary school. Or undertaking one or the other state-sponsored tertiary education. They talk of getting milk at school, eating well, getting student payouts/loans and how everyone was… …