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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader It is difficult to fault Dr Muchemwa’s narrative for every statement is backed by historical or archival footnotes. Actually, most of the material is derived from writings by white historians or writers and the end result is a serious indictment of colonial dispossession of indigenous Zimbabweans of their God-given land.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Black History Month, which is also referred to as the African-American History Month in America, is annually observed in United States, Canada and Britain as a period to remember prominent individuals and events that shaped the future of the African Diaspora. Black History month is celebrated in February in Canada and […]
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Recent troubles within the war veterans movement and brazen disrespect shown to liberation war fighters are fanned by factionalists and successionists in the ruling zanu-pf. War veterans leader Cde Chris Mutsvangwa (CM) recently opened up to our Senior Writer Lovemore Ranga Mataire (LRM) about this and other issues affecting former fighters. Below are excerpts of […]
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere is a luminous figure in the birth of independent Africa whose astuteness, simplicity and dedication to the African cause is yet to be matched by any leader in the modern era.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader One of the areas that I think the new curriculum failed to fully capture is the issue of children’s literature in local languages. In a presentation at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Writer’s Workshop way back in 1998, South African author Elinor Sisulu
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Students undertaking an English Honours Degree programme at the University of Zimbabwe recently launched the English Department Creative Writing/Press Club whose mission is to reignite a reading culture in Zimbabwe and create a platform for students to interface with opinion leaders who they
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Cheikh Anta Diop, the Senegalese author, Egyptologist and philosopher has contributed a lot to debunking orchestrated attempts by European historians to reduce African contribution to world civilisation as mere myth.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Readere Up In Arms (1982) by Chenjerai Hove is arguably one of the most enduring poetry collections by a Zimbabwean author that captures in detail the multifarious dichotomies of trials, tribulations of a people struggling against colonialism.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader The Offshoot (2008) by Priority Project Publishing is a uniquely woven narrative that lies between a short story, a novella or a novel. It is too long to be a short story, too long to be a novella and seemingly falls short of being a “normal” novel because of its concise […]
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader In the current environment of hyper media saturation, media literacy and critical reading are indispensable tools needed in understanding the impact and operations of mass communication, mass media and culture.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader The Journalist is a biography based story by Jos Scharrer, a South Africa-based veteran journalist and an advertising guru. Published in 2014, the book is a story of Flora Shaw, who according to the author shattered the misogynistic glass ceiling of the 19th
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader There were mixed reactions when President Mugabe recently said South Africa needed to embark on a second liberation struggle as the country was fundamentally and economically still under white control.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader PROFESSOR Molefi Kete Asante, who is in Zimbabwe for an Afrocentricity International conference, is an African luminary who has been cited by the African Union as one of the top scholars of African descent who have contributed immensely in working towards the
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Wole Soyinka is a phenomenal figure in the canon of African literature in English who became the first black writer on the continent to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. While there is a lot of debate on the validity of his award, which some critics have described a […]
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Jonathan Ralph Kadurira and Kudzai Portia Gurure are two innovative young people who combined their spiritual, intellectual and life experiences to share with readers the plausible and fruitful ways of existence through a book titled: Mind Blower.
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