Category: Theory
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Explaining the Fluidity of Young Zimbabwean Political Minds
Click or not: Explaining the Fluidity of Young Zimbabwean Political MindsBy Takura Zhangazha* When persons of my age, not necessarily generation, were growing up in the 1990s, we knew the importance of the library. In most cases, it was considered a sort of sanctuary and serious space for either studying for examinations or alternatively a place to escape whatever issues were happening at home or… …
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Writing on Class and Class Struggle in #Zimbabwe
Click or not: Writing on Class and Class Struggle in #ZimbabweBy Takura Zhangazha* I once took a flight to South Africa from what was then referred to as Harare International Airport around 2013. As always, I was used to flying in and out of that country because there is a morning flight and an evening one that made one able to meet and do the… …
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Chomsky from the Global African South
Click or not: Chomsky from the Global African SouthIt was recently falsely reported that one of America’s leftist intellectual and media giants, Noam Chomsky has passed on. It has turned out that his wife quickly dispelled social media rumours that had spread like wildfire. What had been reported in progressive mainstream and social media is that Chomsky has been unwell for a while.… …
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Zimbabwe, Africa , TikTok and Behavioral Digital Capitalism
Click or not: Zimbabwe, Africa , TikTok and Behavioral Digital CapitalismBy Takura Zhangazha* So the American Congress wants to ban a social media application known as TikTok. It is owned by a Chinese based company but as with global financialised neoliberalism also has owners on American financial shores. It would appear the major problem with this social media platform is the fact of its ownership… …