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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts The title of my piece today could get me lynched by the purists in science. They will most likely cite me as yet another example of a clogged mind and in the same breath shake their heads ruefully and wonder out loud about so-called educated people whose ignorance can be so debilitating.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts There is always something cathartic about mourning. When your flood of tears and emotion wash your eyelids and drench your weeping heart, there is afterwards an unmistakable feeling of having been cleansed. Lord knows we all need some cleansing. There are those who will want to be philosophical about death, saying as one […]
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Comrades and friends, please indulge me a little longer while I continue to mine from the depths of the wisdom of our people. Poetry and profound thought ooze like honey from the honeycombs of our culture and our experiences. And do forgive me for the mixed metaphor. I know, as we all […]
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts There is a wonderful saying from the archives of Shona wisdom which in its original form says, “Kugara nhaka huona dzevamwe (We learn from others and are then able to sustain our legacies and our heritage)”.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Comical incidents come in many forms and on a variety of occasions and circumstances. There are some people whose antics are thought to border on insanity.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Way back in 1968, a friend of mine and I arrived at a teachers college on the outskirts of what is now Chivhu town and was known then as the Republic of Enkeldoorn where one of the Afrikaner farmers from the surrounding ranches and tobacco-growing farmers called himself President of […]
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts True life, the best teacher, is an instructive paradox. While we live on Mother Earth, we continue willy-nilly to experience and even celebrate what the erudite Professor Jonathan Moyo, Honourable MP and Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, would in his eloquence call “our oxymoronic existence”.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts In William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, Caesar tells his bosom friend, Brutus, that Cassius gives him the creeps. With uncharacteristic humour and candour Julius Caesar says of Cassius:
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts According to Dorothy R. Jolley “Ubuntu” means being humane. She also argues that Ubuntu is an expression of cultural beliefs and values and is, therefore, what being human means.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts When I was a boy with milk on the nose as they say, and still at primary school, a rather perspicacious friend of mine, a little too world-wise for his age if you ask me, but not so bright in other ways, told me about a book he called “The […]
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Forty-two-year-old Lameck from Mabvuku, Harare, has become a celebrity of sorts. Thanks to a video of his impassioned speech at a funeral. The video has gone viral and Lameck has been interviewed around the world, including by Marvellous Mhlanga-Nyahuye in Washington.
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David Mungoshi Shelling The Nuts Even a passing glance at economics can help us understand national and other economies. The terms “supply” and “demand” are bandied around with regular abandon and become critical when hard times visit a nation, something that leads to all kinds of ideas being tried in an attempt to find solutions.
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David Mungoshi Shelling The Nuts The maxim that says, “to each according to their needs and from each according to their ability” is particularly relevant in today’s Zimbabwe. We have neglected this basic principle and replaced it with acts of consumerism and avarice.
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David Mungoshi Shelling The Nuts While blowing one’s own trumpet does not always endear people to their peers, the very act of doing so is offset by the assertion in the proverb that says, “Faint heart never won a fair lady.”
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Over the weekend I drove to Coventry to be among happy and united Zambians celebrating 52 years of their country’s independence. I can say without any hesitation whatsoever that I had a good time. Most people at the gathering hold regular jobs and are generally very busy people. So that meant […]
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