Category: Theory
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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… …
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A Resurgent Colonialism in Africa
Click or not: A Resurgent Colonialism in AfricaIt 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.
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… …
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A Journey Through Zimbabwe’s Political Consciousness
Click or not: A Journey Through Zimbabwe’s Political ConsciousnessBy 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… …