Category: History

  • Admiring What We Should Not: Africa’s Populist, Tragic Inferiority Complex

    Admiring What We Should Not: Africa’s Populist, Tragic Inferiority Complex

    A 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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  • Zimbabwe’s War Veterans and Revolutionary Stasis

    Zimbabwe’s War Veterans and Revolutionary Stasis

    In the tragic crossfire that was Zimbabwes liberation struggle, I have only known at a personal level eleven (11) liberation war veterans.  I can only name five (5) who are regrettably late but who also actively always encouraged me to tell stories of their own versions and roles, as they wrote or spoke of it,…

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  • Age, Conversation and Changing Consciousness in Zimbabwe

    Age, Conversation and Changing Consciousness in Zimbabwe

    I 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…

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  • A Not So New Meaning to Being White and (South) African in Africa and the World

    A Not So New Meaning to Being White and (South) African in Africa and the World

    USA president Donald Trump recently issued an executive order about South African domestic politics.  In it he was basically protecting white South Africans and in particular those of Afrikaner (Dutch) origin. This was after one of his infamous and closest political advisors, Elon Musk had warned via his social media platform X, that there would be…

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