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Africa is full of contradictions; Qwabe twins are still VIRGINS at 26 years!
Seeing their photo on Bulawayo24 today, I wonder what is cultural, and traditional about these twins? This photo shoot looks like big German barbies on sale. There is nothing that tells me that these ...Published: 21 Sep 2024 at 11:01hrs | 2916 | by Nomazulu Thata
When dark babies are not good enough! Thank you Andile: what an article!
It is a pity such articles never attract attention they deserve. Your article Andile was a good read and spot on. I do not need to seek far, why our African communities do not see the need to read it....Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:28hrs | 1346 | by Nomazulu Thata
Decoloniality - a necessity in Zimbabwean Universities
Colonialism in Africa is not over, rather it is all over. One of the things that has given colonialism this staying power is the education system in Africa that largely mirrors the virtues of imperial...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:54hrs | 304 | by Dr Aribino Nicholas
Decoloniality vs mental re-orientation
PART of the duty and responsibility of today's academics and intellectuals is to find answers to Africa's development challenges.This is because the post-independent African State has done not...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Ngwabi Bhebhe declared national hero
Founding Midlands State University (MSU) Vice Chancellor Professor Ngwabi Bhebhe, who died yesterday, has been declared a national hero in recognition of his outstanding role as an academic, a great t...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans not silent accomplices of Zanu-PF oppression
Zimbabweans have never been silent accomplices of their oppression with citizens expressing their grievances through cultural artefacts, a South Africa based academic has said.Speaking a...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Black advocates responds to Adriaan Basson's insults
We the undermentioned advocates respond formally to Mr Adriaan Basson's insults against Dali Mpofu SC as follows: On 7 February 2022 Mr Adriaan Basson, Editor-in-Chief of News 24 published an ...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
The paradigm of war and interests
The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.West...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 5 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Patriotic Zimbabweans in Diaspora party is born
EDITOR,In line with the Zimbabwe Constitution Section 67 (1)(b), 67 (2)(b)(c) and 67(3)(a)(b) that confers Zimbabwean citizens political and electoral rights related to political membership an...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs to dump colonial regalia
CHIEFS are set to abandon their colonial regalia as it does not reflect Zimbabwe's traditional heritage and cultural values but cements colonial dominancy. The red and purple gown and round sh...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Richard Mahomva
How to think in Dark Times
"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The genera...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Sadc resolutions portend well for Africa's unity
In his seminal public lecture in South Africa, Prof Artwell Nhemachena succinctly attacks the jugular vein of coloniality by stating that: "African voices have spoken and cried but the world has not b...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu
State Capture: The imperfect metaphor
Language and its expressions and metaphors does not only deliver messages and meaning but it can also do a lot to hide the truth. In that way language can be used, sometimes innocently and at ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
On Decolonising Governmentality
It is a truly careless but also stubborn truism that if we had no nation-states in the world we would not have nationless and stateless people. Nations and states are the source of nationlessness and ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Critical consciousness and educatedness
Even some of the leading philosophers and theorists of education have made the mistake of thinking that being informed is the same thing as being educated.In actuality one may accumulate quant...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The Church as seen by a Young Layman: Unmasking the darker side of modernity in Christianity
It is now forty one years since Steve Biko, the doyen of South African Black Consciousness Movement passed on. A part of this piece title is developed from Steve Biko's, I Write What I Like. Although ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 17:03hrs | 11 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
A decolonial response to 'The case of Colonialism’
It is over a year now since Bruce Gilley, the political imperial historian wrote his controversial article as an apologist to colonialism in Africa. More contentious from the article, was the call to ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:20hrs | 42 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
A decolonial response to 'The case of Colonialism'
It is over a year now since Bruce Gilley, the political imperial historian wrote his controversial article as an apologist to colonialism in Africa. More contentious from the article, was the call to ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa
It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. F...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Zimbabwe elections: Recognition and God's Case, No Appeal
RECOGNITION of the result of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections was always going to be a matter of basic international relations. One would be forgiven for arguing about which countries recognise th...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
De-Westernisation towards Decolonisation
Most of what are called African problems today are problems that Europe and America have caused or at least promoted in the continent.Most African problems, including civil wars and genocides,...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1
If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Beware of the 'Devil on the cross'
There is a group of self-appointed trustees of morality and political truth. This crop of thinkers calls itself the democrats and economic recovery enthusiasts.It is known for its dismissive t...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:15hrs | | by Micheal Mhlanga
Planetarity: From Third World to Global South
Presently it is the true stuff of political and intellectual fashion to refer to Africa, Latin America and even Asia as collectively the Global South.For the reason that there are more politic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindaba Mabhena
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe supports the military in the demise of Mugabe
THE native army in Zimbabwe since colonial rule has repeatedly sought to guarantee the recognition of human rights and democracy. Despite the diversity of the debate about security in Africa, one fact...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 15:54hrs | | by Tedious Ncube is a Political Scientist.
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Manheru is back with Mnangagwa's 100 Days: Defying Horace's Burden
In one of his mature Odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known in the English-speaking world as Horace, coined the famous "delicta maiorum immeritus lues".Now sounding pedantic and obscure ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by George Charamba
Apologies for a boring coup!
"The words you speak become the house you live in." What a killer and loaded statement from Hafiz.Dziri seiko dzimba dzamakazvivakira nemashoko? Mumwe nemumwe mumba yake. Let me leave this sto...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Bishop
Decoloniality and critical encounters
I found my sorry self in the unenviable position of addressing the Pharisees of quality and standards in South African higher education.The police officers and magistrates of the academy. The ...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Patrick Lumumba: How to become a Colonial Constable
Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba does not only speak on African solutions for African problems, he raises hell and does not let any sleeping dogs lie. The Kenyan Pan-Africanist lawyer and judge does not ta...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 09:54hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Lupane university hosts public lecture
Lupane State University Alumni Association is today Friday hosting a public lecture on the role of universities in paving way for national development.In a notice sent to invitees, the u...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Negotiating the political economic space of the youth in Zimbabwe's policy framework
The post year-2000 era Zimbabwe's political-economy challenges have accelerated learnt lessons to every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean youth, as a constituency in itself, is having a compromis...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 12:41hrs | | by Tedious Ncube
'Negotiating the political economic space of the youth in Zimbabwe's policy framework'
The post year-2000 era Zimbabwe's political-economy challenges have accelerated learnt lessons to every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean youth, as a constituency in itself, is having a compromis...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Tedious Ncube
'Negotiating the political economic space of the youth in Zimbabwe's policy framework'
The post year-2000 era Zimbabwe's political-economy challenges have accelerated learnt lessons to every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean youth, as a constituency in itself, is having a compromis...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 20:24hrs | 5 | by Tedious Ncube
Human profits of decoloniality at large
It was about to be a planetary truism that our world has become an information and even knowledge society.In the present age of technological magic, the century of the social media and era of ...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:01hrs | 6 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation
Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian an...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Treachery of African philosophy
One of the unseemly decorations of Western science and philosophy has been, in this century and its many forerunners, its vaunting and chest-beating arrogance.Without a single dot of shame, Fr...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Other factors sustaining the 'regime-change' agenda
On 01 June, 2017 Bulawayo welcomed the launch of the Blues Café, a new creativity nest ideally founded to contain the creative capacity the City of Bulawayo.The launch of this arts hub is a w...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Gukurahundi wounds are still fresh
In one of the saddest episodes in Zimbabwe's never-ending political drama, some lawmakers are now approaching the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill from factional vantage points influenced by Zan...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Brezhnev Malaba
Man, the silliest animal
A soldier looks at buildings ravaged by war in SyriaIT is perhaps true that human beings in their true state of nature began as citizens of a small world in a huge planet; through intelligence...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The born free and other dangerous myths
It comes easy in Africa to call the young men and women born after political independence as the "born free" generation. What the nature of their freedom is, what they are free from, and what priv...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:17hrs | 13 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The ANC and the crisis of democracy in Africa
Since its formation as an African party, not just a South African liberation movement in 1912, the African National Congress has had its slogan as "Amandla!" which is a determined cry for power. T...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:33hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
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