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Nathaniel Manheru: The Other Side Happy New Year, gentle readers! Well, a New Year in the Gregorian sense of movement of time. But certainly just another day, another time, in other cultures free from the bane of Western religion and outlook. Including our own before the coming of the white man. Then time was concretely […]
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The other side with Nathaniel Manheru— The other week I had attempted a very angry piece on the state of thought in our beloved Zimbabwe. I shouted; I railed. After a while I reflected, and then recalled a proverb used by Amilcar Cabral in his 1966 Tricontinental Address in Havana, Cuba: when your house is […]
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THE OTHER SIDE NATHANIEL MANHERU— An interview Donald Trump is alleged to have had with People Magazine in 1998 quoted him as saying: “If I were to run [for US presidency], I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and […]
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The Other side with Nathaniel Manheru — Dear reader, if you expect a straight piece this week, prepare for a shocker. I want us to construct meaning from a knowledge-spawning situation I came across in one of my intellectual peregrinations. This week iwe neni tine basa. We have a job to do, jointly. An epistemological […]
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The other side with Nathaniel Manheru — No surprises for me. Hopefully none for you too, gentle reader, if you didn’t miss my September 24 and October 21 instalments. September 24 piece in part read: “However rough one finds him [Donald Trump], clearly he is the stronger candidate, given the gains he continues to make […]
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The other side with Nathaniel Manheru I had a chuckle the other day when Zimbabwe People First propaganda novices were at pains to suggest an epic battle for leadership between Joice Mujuru and Margaret Dongo.
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THE OTHER SIDE: Nathaniel Manheru— Denial or deceit: these are the two dominant impulses between which vexed life hovers. And vexations come both by way of agonising expectations, or by way of deep fears, especially fears of hazards one would rather not acknowledge.
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The Other side with Nathaniel Manheru One Nomazulu Thata — that angry Zimbabwean beauty whose headgear leaves me breathless — is not too pleased with my snide comments on the sitting arrangement of Joice Mujuru, the leader of Zimbabwe People First. She called my last instalment in which I asked Joice, after Achebe’s
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Nathaniel Manheru The other side— I have been reading Basil Davidson’s 1969 publication, The African Genius. This followed a claim I ran into in the context of my research where Davidson is described as one “historian who changed Africans’ perception of themselves”. The British-born historian died in 2010 after penning quite a number of books
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THE OTHER SIDE: Nathaniel Manheru— A BIG thank you and apology are merited. Thank you to The Sunday Mail for hosting me last week. A big apology to the Editor of The Herald and of course my readers for not meeting my commitment last Saturday. What man proposes, God disposes. Matters simply went beyond my […]
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The other side with Nathaniel Manheru— THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, can share the snuff by which we summon our ancestors. We need them […]
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The other side : Nathaniel Manheru— This week I enjoyed two statements sure to enrich the national stock of political sayings. The first one came from Kudzai Chipanga, the de facto leader of the Youth Wing of the ruling party, Zanu-PF. Addressing his peers in the Youth Wing, he dismissed vain hopes of the opposition to […]
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Nathaniel Manheru: The Other Side— I have made a pledge to you my readers. A pledge I will always endeavour to fulfil for as long as I write. That pledge is to raise difficult questions, break taboos, speak and spill the truth, so this society confronts its warts. And its weaknesses. There is lots of […]
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The other side: Nathaniel Manheru— Ice cubes in the freezer can never change the weather in the kitchen, I keep telling people. In politics, anything goes, more so for people who delight in pelting opponents. It is downright foolish to invoke the book of rules when your missile has just landed, pinching tender flesh. Dr […]
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The other side with Nathaniel Manheru— I have no difficulties with insults heaped upon our ancestors by the white world, both before and after colonisation. Much of it arose from overweening Victorian pride and racism anyway, a lot more from sheer ignorance of how to read things African. Of course with time, there was a […]
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