Category: Culture
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Understanding Wicknell and His Money as Influence in Zimbabwe
Click or not: Understanding Wicknell and His Money as Influence in ZimbabweControversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has been quite literally dishing out both luxury and basic utility cars to celebrities and individuals at an alarming rate. Both unilaterally or upon social media requests/ pleas from long known celebrities. He has also been helping, at least according to his social media accounts and some media reports, well known… …
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Mothers as Flawed Revolutionaries
Click or not: Mothers as Flawed RevolutionariesMothers are correctly sacrosanct in Zimbabwean culture. More-so given the popular adage ‘kusina Mai hakuendwe, kune rima’ (where there is no mother, you do not go there, there is darkness) is deeply ingrained in most of our national consciousness. Especially as popularized by Simon Chimbetu and the Orchestra Dendera Kings in the famous hit single “Kusina Mai”. Hence… …
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Deliberately Forgetting Cultural Changes in Zimbabwe
Click or not: Deliberately Forgetting Cultural Changes in ZimbabweOn a recent trip to Bikita, Masvingo we did not have the now ubiquitous flash drive for uninterrupted journey music. What was interesting was that we could purchase one without music and then get someone else to transfer music to it. The person that was to transfer the music to it was of the apostolic faith… …
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Culture and Praxis in Zimbabwe.
Click or not: Culture and Praxis in Zimbabwe.A friend recently asked me about what I meant many years ago about “generational praxis”. I will come back to this concept/issue later. But if you want to crosscheck Antonio Gramsci on Google, please go ahead. He asked me this in an awkward context wherein we had listened to the new music that is now… …