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My little story on American sanctions Only a few weeks shy of my sixty-first birthday, I have been, until late last week, on United States list of sanctioned Zimbabweans. I have been there for twenty-one years. Those more than two decades were, arguably, the ripest part of my life both as a biological being and […]
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@JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY Colour of the cat does not matter Late Deng Xiaoping put it so well: I do not care the colour of the cat, so long it catches mice! Deng’s China then was opening itself up to the world, in the aftermath of Chairman Mao’s demise. The once-reviled leadership under Chairman Mao, led […]
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@JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY Down and Out in Paris I am re-reading Eric Blair’s iconic essay, Down and Out in Paris and London. To assist those who do not know, Eric Blair is the real name of George Orwell, the famed writer of the often-quoted but little-understood allegorical story, Animal Farm, and of course what was […]
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@Jamwanda2 on Saturday A time to re-load SORRY folks, I took a long leave in order to reload. Often, readers forget weekly writings require years of stocked reading material. But there comes a time when the stock runs out, making renewal necessary. I was burning out. In the intervening period, so much has happened without […]
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@Jamwanda2 on Saturday A sage called Boswell An anthology titled The Great Age of the English Essay, edited by Denise Gigante, includes an essay by one James Boswell titled, On Concluding. Its opening sentence struck me as perspicacious: “To retire in proper time from any state of exertion is one of the most nice and […]
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@JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY Hail King Nero, The First and Last! “There shall be a leader and Change Champion-in-Chief (Advocate Nelson Chamisa) who shall be the Administrator and President tasked by the citizens to champion, lead, and guide processes of the movement…. The Change Champion-in-Chief shall be the chief spokesperson and chief representative of the CCC […]
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@JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY Going for the jugular Tshabangu Cyclone continues to rag unabated, its spasmodic yet overwhelmingly buffeting landfalls looking endless. Before long, Tshabangu will strike vaster, leaving Triple C numb and in utter paralysis. Options for Chamisa continue to slim, until such time he has no choice but to wail hapless in the biblical […]
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@Jamwanda2 on Saturday Zimbabwe’s emetic pill However one sees our politics, and from whichever camp, the goings-on in Chamisa’s Triple C have been politically emetic. Zimbabwe has experienced some therapeutic political vomit which leaves it much relieved, reinforced by a good bout of cathartic laughter. Not everything going on in Triple C has invoked sadness […]
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@Jamwanda2 on Saturday Some little-known god called Tshabangu Homo sum, humanum nihil a me alienum puto. What a fast-paced week it has been! Even the most agile minds have had to play catch-up. I am not referring to events in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, tragic and globally reverberating though these may be. Rather, […]
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@ JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY Reading Edward Gibbon Where is God bakithi? Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain’s governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minister has to have read him. I can’t vouch for Premier Sunaki, even though I aspire to scale similar heights on […]
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@Jamwanda2 on Saturday Our Americas I am reading Jose Marti’s essay, Our America. Reading it for the umpteenth time. It continues to speak to me with the freshness and forcefulness of a newly penned piece. Yet the angry essay, written by this Cuban revolutionary, was written in the late 19th Century. False erudition There is […]
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@JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY Franz Kafka’s world Franz Kafka’s art rests and runs on the bizarre and overawing grotesquery. Yet it is that de-familiarised, out-of-size world which he so ably colours which becomes the vehicle for his creative genius. Coupled with his sheer wit grounded in the sardonic, to convey his surly view on life. Fools […]
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@Jamwanda2 On Saturday From a writer, critic, traveller, doctor I am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor. The letters span a big chunk of his life, reflecting all the four roles rolled into one. This gives this epistolary collection quite some depth and breath on the close […]
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@Jamwanda2 0n Saturday Becoming a political cliché Gustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: “Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion.” Nowadays we speak of the expressive force of language, including celebrating vocabulary and diction that confounds conventional usage. Come to think of it, good writers […]
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@JAMWANDA2 ON SATURDAY The war which never ended There is a narrative reigning in opposition circles. It says all stories related to the Liberation Struggle are stale and sterile, indeed some self-titillation by a dying generation seeking to cheat time and extort past glory against present failures. This is hardly surprising. After Tsvangirai and his […]
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