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OF course there has always been rules for the goose, rules for the gander. I am reading a piece in the British Guardian where one Chris Grayling says the Conservative government would withdraw from the European
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The Scottish bid for secession has failed, and hey, what a relief to the British pound! The whole world was waiting with baited laugher to see if Britain was going to balkanize, begin to disintegrate, thereby matching in physical, geographical terms its millenarian decline by
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Nathaniel Manheru THE Chinese are here. The Russians are coming. The Western world quakes, courts. But this is not a poem, can’t be. Reality is always deeper, more problematic than rhyme. It needs reason. Then boldness. Much else follows.
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru TWO weeks ago, I penned a piece on Obama and his conditioned inability to use “his” presidency to stop the abuse of blacks in America, abuses with a long history and tradition in that country. I noted racism is endemic to American life, adding that to be black is […]
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The Other Side by Nathaniel Manheru IT has always been a hard fact of life that in America as elsewhere in Europe, a black man only has condemned colour and a sorry history, nothing else.
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“EVERY day we notice more and more that the distance which separates the White race from the Black race is an abyss which only Jesus Christ himself can fill. During our long travels among the native peoples we have become particularly aware of this sort of revulsion between these two races which strike the European […]
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru Dear reader, kindly google the British Guardian issue of yesterday, Friday, 8th August, 2014. You should be able to find an article titled, “Childcare funding could be cut off for failure to promote British values”.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side There are things that ruling or governing parties just will not do. Yet there are a number of things Zanu-PF is doing presently which are so unseemly of a ruling and governing party. Worse when you consider the margin of its victory in the July 2013 harmonised elections.
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Those who have read a bit of satirical poetry will remember the acerbic Alexander Pope famed for his long, four-versions poem, The Dunciad. Itself a strident attack on dullness and tastelessness in art, the long poem was a stout response to Pope’s spiteful opponents whom he accused of impugning bona fide poets so rare in […]
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My good friend from Zambia once recounted to me a stormy encounter between President Sata and a dismissed senior Patriotic Front party official who proceeded to join the opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) a short while later. The front-loading fifth President of Zambia and leader of the ruling Patriotic Front
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Nathaniel Manheru: The Other Side THE other day I critically wrote about commemorative rituals for Bulawayo as “a modern city”, rituals which in damning inadvertency, panegyrized the Rhodesian white settler ethos, all at the expense of colonialism’s beast of burden, the African.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side David Livingstone comes to us in white history as a Scottish medical missionary of the London Missionary Society (LMS), a slave abolitionist and an explorer associated with the Royal Geographical Society. The same history tells us he died in May 1873 at Illala (in present day Zambia), a location described […]
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I hope I will not sound obscure and thus needlessly pedantic. While it has to be admitted that the object of writing is to communicate, it must also be conceded that the purpose of reading is to enlarge one’s knowledge, indeed to venture beyond one’s ken. Otherwise, there is no point. So, the art of […]
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side In the second part of Shakespeare’s history play, Henry IV, is an emotionally riveting great rejection scene. King Henry V, all along the playful Prince Hal, gets crowned following the death of his tainted father, King Henry IV. Tainted because he literally wades through blood to reach the throne. Before […]
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side It must be truly distressful when Jack watches the world he built crumble with the speedy drama of a deck of cards. So it must look for the Americans. No doubt the news out of Iraq must be quite stressful to Obama, a president dogged by charges of the “wimpy […]
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