Category: Theory

  • A Resurgent Colonialism in Africa

    A Resurgent Colonialism in Africa

    It was Franz Fanon that wrote on what he referred to as “A Dying Colonialism”.  In this collection of essays, Fanon was generally optimistic about the future of Africa and its revolutionary and liberatory ethos.  Already in “The Wretched of the Earth” he had also sort of indicated the ambiguity of what liberation meant and…

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  • Culture and Praxis in Zimbabwe.

    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…

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  • A Journey Through Zimbabwe’s Political Consciousness

    By Takura Zhangazha* Most of us as Zimbabweans do not examine the trajectory of our contemporary but also individual national consciousness.  For example we do not really ask, what shapes our individual political opinions?  Is it the school we went to?  The churches we attended or the political processes that we witnessed or experienced?  Let…

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  • The Undying Importance of Workers Committees’ in Zimbabwe.

    By Takura Zhangazha* With high levels of unemployment in the formal sector in Zimbabwe it is relatively given that formal trade unionism and workers rights activism is on the decline.  Yes we still have trade unions such as the brave Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and its affiliates.  But it is only to be…

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