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The finger-pointing tendency of the imperial culture defines and determines the actions and behaviour of imperial agents – whether these be in the media fraternity or in politics.
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In a week leading to Zimbabwe’s referendum on a new constitution and at a time we are experiencing bizarre claims of supernatural happenings across the country, it is a bit of a quandary for any columnist to focus on a topic far away from home. Claims about the occurrence of godly
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For long Africa has been looked at as the world’s arbiter of poverty, and the plight of Africa’s poverty is the basis of the billion dollar charity industry, that despite the glaring fact that Africa’s poverty is -
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This year’s election is not only about the revolutionary Zanu-PF fighting for power against the liberal MDC, but about nationalism against liberalism — about pro-people policies weighed against pro-profit ideology — otherwise -
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Regardless of the rhetoric on the nobilities of promoting democracy and on the sanctity of freedoms and liberties, economic sanctions illegally imposed on Zimbabwe by the West since 2001 have played a significant role as part of -
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Zimbabwe has recently been experiencing some of the most bizarre and outrageous happenings rooted in the people’s deep seated beliefs in either the Christian faith or African Traditional -
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One of the saddest lessons of history is that when we have been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozled. It is not easy to believe that you have been taken for a -
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The idea of democracy must naturally be pinned on the concept of people involvement in all governance affairs that pertain to their welfare and lives. In what can only be described as a twisted
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The 20th century saw the fall of colonial empires in Africa, and with it came many post-independence civil conflicts, mainly attributed to ethnicity. It is widely perceived that the Biafra war between July
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Today’s widespread preaching of the gospel of prosperity and the recent surge in church leaders titling themselves prophets of God raises serious concerns, more for the impact this has had on the -
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Elections in developing countries, particularly in those blessed with abundant natural resources, are often an excellent testing ground for the imperial propaganda model, inasmuch as they also test the
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An opinion piece recently published by an online publication, authored by the MDC-T policy chief Eddie Cross, and titled “2013 Outlook: Prophecies by Eddie Cross” was quite telling in revealing the -
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The Nigerian Igbo proverb that says “Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” applies so well to what intellectuals do to their communities today.
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There are dire consequences when a people lives on borrowed values and reasoning, and this is precisely why Africa has not made the expected progress after the fall of colonial empires almost 60
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