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By Takura Zhangazha* Sunday morning conversations are hard. Especially if they occur during early morning visits from intellectual friends.  Recently one such friend paid a surprising courtesy call and invariably our conversations ended up trying to casually examine a key question of Zimbabwean national consciousness.  My friend was more about the science of it and… …

By Takura Zhangazha* So a young Zimbabwean cde in his professional work with me was in conversation explaining how certain things work.  He then used a specific turn of phrase about how you realize that everything is sorted.  This was a turn of phrase that related to a popular social media religious influencer called Passion… …

By Takura Zhangazha* In 1998 I had to undertake a research project for a course called Theory and Practice of Public Policy for my undergraduate studies.   I had decided that I would do it on the Bikita Rural District Council budgeting processes because since its my rural district I knew I would have the relevant… …

By Takura Zhangazha* One hot afternoon at the University of Zimbabwe, we were in a tutorial for a course called Development Administration.  The technical aspects of the course combined with the weather made the mood rather snoozy until one of our classmates suddenly said, ” Let me catapult this discussion to a higher level”.  We… …