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Deconstructing Prof Mutambara's ahistorical narrative
Last week Professor Arthur Mutambara ignited debate on social media platforms after writing a lengthy piece criticising the country`s examination system.The long article, which was published&n...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:11hrs | 278 | by Leroy Dzenga
Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:41hrs | 368 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Zozibini and decolonial aesthetics
THE saying that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" is an old English saying that has its roots in Ancient Greece. The roots of the saying are deeply philosophical as were its Greek geneal...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:07hrs | 461 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Decoloniality: Did somebody say China?
The name "China" invokes mixed reactions from a mixed bag of many different people from varied interests and locations in the world. For others China represents the alternative to Euro-America...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:47hrs | 225 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
What is Decolonial Heroism?
EVERY living philosophy has its dilemmas and frustrations. Philosophies, if they are not sophistry and charlatanry, always arise from perplexity. The perplexity of decoloniality as a philosoph...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 98 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
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 | 466 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
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 | 107 | 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 | 184 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Unmasking the myths of decolonization in Zimbabwe through the lens of Cain Mathema
Cain Mathema's 2018 publication, "I Join The ZAPU Armed Struggle" captures stories of experiences and reflections of the young Thula at Cyrene Mission, an Anglican Church boarding school for boys. ZAP...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 21:36hrs | 685 | by Brian Maregedze
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 | 1645 | 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 | 147 | 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 | 1921 | 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 | 120 | 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 | 3292 | 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 | 554 | 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 | 366 | 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 | 746 | 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 | 74 | 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 | 790 | 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 | 226 | 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 | 45 | by Cetshwayo Zindaba Mabhena
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 | 141 | 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 | 399 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
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 | | 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 | 247 | 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
Codesa was a betrayal of South Africa's black struggle
Former constitutional judge Albie Sachs had to shield the Constitution against sharp criticism from students dismissing it as a "betrayal".On Tuesday night Sachs delivered the Oliver Tambo cen...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 14:52hrs | 188 | by City Press
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 | 128 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Zanu PF 21st movement celebration to honour the colonialists
MDC officials Descent Collins Bajila has expressed reservations that the move by Zanu PF to hold its 21st movement celebrations in honour of President Robert Mugabe's birthday at the Rhodes Estate Pre...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 05:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 395 | 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 | 411 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Liberating the University in Africa
Presently there are emphatic currents of argument all calling for either the transformation, Africanisation or the decolonisation of the university in Africa. Long years of university education in Afr...Published: 08 May 2016 at 10:44hrs | 2329 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans
As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 2654 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Coltart and Msipa's memoirs: A time to reflect on Zim's split patriotic consciousness
It is with great shock that Zimbabwe is continuously losing her prolific thinkers. This past week I was shocked to receive the news about Alexander Kanengoni's departure for eternal rest. "Gora" (His ...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:05hrs | 2361 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Mzilikazi Khumalo: The king and the myths
Typical of the many African pre-colonial military and political leaders, the name and legacy of Mzilikazi Khumalo is enveloped in colonial and racist myths. European adventurous explorers and prospect...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 21:27hrs | 2877 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The long trial of Joshua Nkomo
Even as he rests in peace, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo faces contesting judgments. In appreciation he is "Father Zimbabwe," the adorable "Umdala Wethu" who was once called "Chibwechitedza," the small slipper...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:46hrs | 1887 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Zimbabwe: A History of the Future
If in the present world there was no propaganda and no war, politics would not be seen and experienced as a very dirty game. The telling of lies as truth, marketing of myths as reality and the shootin...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 19:50hrs | 1737 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Book titled Mugabeism published
The Palgrave Macmillan has published a book titled Mugabeism chronicling the controversies surrounding the Zimbabwean leader President Robert Mugabe.The book was edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gat...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 08:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | 7248 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 23 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mugabe and his wife Grace are terrified people
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise power exc...Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 19:43hrs | 7773 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Inside Mugabe's sealed succession envelope: Fear, self assassinations and a coup
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise powe...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | 17166 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabweans are the masters of decoloniality
WHEN some of us write about decoloniality and post-coloniality, there are those that are quick to point out that it makes little sense to write all this stuff "from the comfort of imperialist countrie...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 05:37hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
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