Category: Politics
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Prof Masipula Sithole and Zimbabwe National Consciousness
Click or not: Prof Masipula Sithole and Zimbabwe National ConsciousnessA very recent event made me remember my primary Zimbabwean academic mentor, Professor Masipula Sithole. Someone had mentioned, in passing, what a new Catholic Pope Leo XIV would mean for global politics. I simply said let us wait and see. (And I wont return to this matter on global Catholicism in this article) But before I had answered… …
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Ramaphosa vs Trump: House or Field Negro? An Urgent Need for a Renewed, Organic Pan Africanism
Click or not: Ramaphosa vs Trump: House or Field Negro? An Urgent Need for a Renewed, Organic Pan AfricanismSouth African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently returned from what is now a controversial bi-lateral meeting with his USA counterpart Donald Trump. It was evidently controversial in its public live streaming by the mainstream media and social media platforms. This was mainly because the media framed it as ‘ambush’ of Ramaphosa by Trump on the issue of an… …
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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,… …