Category: Theory
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Revolutionary Pan African Cultural Icon #Kenya #Zimbabwe
Click or not: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Revolutionary Pan African Cultural Icon #Kenya #ZimbabweThe great African writer and intellectual, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, has left us here on earth. He passed away this week after a long illness as described by his family. I did not know or interact with him personally. I only met him via his amazing novels and Pan-African essays as I encountered them in the Waterfalls and… …
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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… …