Joining the George Ayittey Society is a step towards fighting for real change in Zimbabwe

My recent acceptance into the George Ayittey Society is an honour that fills me with immense humility and gratitude. To be part of a distinguished group of scholars, intellectuals, and researc...

Parting Thoughts from 2023 Zimbabwe Coconut Reforms

It is not a secret that the rotten state or the coconut republic of Zimbabwe must be reformed and replaced with a well-functioning state. To establish a functional state, reform is needed in political...

Mangudya finds the $15 billion booty

On 18 June 2022, Zimbabwe woke up to the Reserve Bank Governor, Mangudya's admission that, "Fifteen major companies have been creating huge extra profits by borrowing billions of dollars, often from s...

The mother of all vampire states

On 18 June 2022, Zimbabwe woke up to the the Reserve Bank Governor, Mangudya's admission that, "Fifteen  major companies have been creating huge extra profits by borrowing billions of dollars, of...

Zimbabwe now a Vampire State

A Vampire State is a country where anyone who gets to be the president ends up with much more wealth than before s/he became president. On the other hand the poor and working class are always left beh...

MDC Structures keep the dream alive, the Jewel of Africa returns

Julius Mwalimu Kambarage Nyerere referred to Zimbabwe as the jewel of Africa that needed heart and soul to protect it. Decades of independence later, Zanu-PF has changed that view. Zimbabwe has been c...

Dialogue on reforms will save us

THE past few days have been hell for Zimbabwe; the citizen has been subjected to attrition, causing severe physical and psychological inflammation and, in the worst case, death.These deaths ha...

Five years of nothing, a manifesto of hot air promises

The Zimbabwean people have been dragged into a bottomless, many rue the 2013 election, the election has turned out to be a late July fool's day dummy. Many false promises were made by ZAN...

Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai - The Peak of the Struggle's Hall of Fame

Ash Wednesday is the day that the traditional churches remember that the human being is mortal; the Priest physically draws a cross of ash on each of the foreheads of every congregant accompanied by t...

Is Zimbabwe a coconut Republic or a banana republic?

The Editor, A coconut Republic or a banana republic? After reading Dr. George Ayittey's attempt to distinguish the difference between a coconut republic and a banana republic below, I ...

'Mugabe turns Zimbabwe into a vampire state'

In his book, Defeating Dictators, George B.N Ayittey makes the point that much of Africa is a vampire state that metastasizes into a coconut republic and finally implodes into a collapsed or failed st...