Blogs
2 years ago | May 6, 2021
Awakening the great speaker within (Part 2)
Elliot Ziwira Senior Writer In our last instalment we discussed the essence of speaking, not only as a component of ...
2 years ago | March 29, 2021
Tips on comprehension passages (Part 1)
Elliot Ziwira Senior Writer There is something about examinations that is rather puzzling; in that the closer they get ...
3 years ago | November 4, 2019
Reading: Integral part of the learning process
Elliot Ziwira Senior Writer The reading culture appears to be in recession and this reflects on the dearth of creativity ...
3 years ago | October 30, 2019
Being a citizen: Turning the lenses on self
Elliot Ziwira Senior Writer It is every citizen’s right to live the life he desires both for himself and his children. ...
4 years ago | August 5, 2019
Let’s keep singing ‘Songs of Ourselves’
Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore “SONGS of Ourselves” (2005) is a compilation of poems done by the University of Cambridge ...
4 years ago | June 19, 2019
Housing PPPs can help fight poverty
Elliot Ziwira Senior Writer “We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national ...
4 years ago | April 1, 2019
Of blindness, deceitful sight
Worn out by poverty in the periphery of an opulent household, whose fat cook is deaf to their pleas to spare them bowls ...
4 years ago | January 14, 2019
A peek into ‘This Side of Nothingness’
Life itself loses lustre if all that one can think of is one’s demise, as if death is not borne of life. Death drives ...
4 years ago | December 10, 2018
Achebe pokes at inherited African tragedies
In Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987), the central character, Sam has power thrust upon him unexpectedly, ...
4 years ago | October 7, 2018
Awakening the great speaker within
Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore In a world where exhibition of skills and competencies are in vogue, aided by the ...
4 years ago | September 25, 2018
ED, the broken window philosophy
There are crimes that injure individuals, and then there are crimes that injure society. Crimes that injure individuals ...
5 years ago | August 14, 2018
Embracing, enhancing devolution
A new way of doing things is being inculcated in Zimbabwe. The narrative is very clear that we have to recall the ...
5 years ago | August 13, 2018
Remembering our gallant freedom fighters
Elliot [email protected] The Book Store As you read this instalment from the shelves of the Bookstore today gentle reader, spare a ...
5 years ago | July 23, 2018
Struggle for legitimacy in the post-colonial state
Through assimilation, France sought to create a black man who would think of himself as French first and African second; ...
5 years ago | July 17, 2018
Let’s elect a credible candidate
If a vision lacks realism, it also lacks credibility. Any father can come to their children and promise them the most ...
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