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Prophet Enoch Immanuel Amanor Agbozo of the Enoch Missions, a world missionary outreach movement operating in
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This is an undisputed fact. As the sun sets on the year 2011, one of the major highlights of 2011 are the global protests, riots, uprisings that touched every continent and most countries, including the most powerful nations. The applicability of the First Amendment Act in the United States of America is under serious test when the right to protest has ended up with allegations of serious police brutality.
The year's protests took all forms: from marching with placards bearing various messages, to shouting, singing and dancing, self-immolation, hunger strikes and much more. Placards that used to be the de facto symbols of protest were this year upstaged by tents in the Occupy Wall Street protests, demonstrations against the capitalist system. In -
Murdered South African activist and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement Bantu Steve Biko said, "Black people are
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When Western nations imposed illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe and made desperate moves to turn it into a pariah state, Zimbabwe shifted goal posts and turned to nation states that had made it possible for the Zimbabwean dream to be realised - sovereignty and self determination.
The "Look East" to some was like a "kiya kiya" strategy being adopted by a desperate government.
Unknown to them, the United States of America, the world's superpower is doing exactly that with its "comeback to Asia" strategy. At the time of writing, both the Zimbabwean and US Presidents were in the East on official visits. President Mugabe met a number of -
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Tomorrow marks that tragic day in Zimbabwean history when in 1965 during this eleventh month ("the month of the goat declared sacred by our people), on the eleventh day and eleventh hour, the renegade Rhodesian leader Ian Douglas Smith proclaimed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
History has since shown that Smith's defiance was done on a day set aside to remember their kith and kin that fell in the 20th century's two world wars.
With this unilateral act, he extended the quarrel started by his ancestors when they colonised Zimbabwe in 1890. This week, I look at a current issue in the context of UDI, and why it continues to be a devil in our -
We are living in a fast-changing terrain. If you snooze, you lose. As I watch the popular embrace of information communication technologies by all and sundry, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity and belief systems, it is as if the Internet, with its accompanying familiarities such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yookos have always been a part of our lives.
We have become the touch-button generation that can easily talk about bits and bytes, cyberspace and virtual reality.
Despite using them daily, I've often remarked that sometimes I feel so ancient. It was in the early 90s that our small class on information networking (the Internet) turned some of us into cyberpunks - literally living on the Internet - netizens as one of our professors loved to call us.
We even laughed at a New York Times article of June 5, 1994 headlined, "On the Internet, dissidents' shots heard ‘round the world'".
To the print media, this was a major discovery, which we had since discovered as we witnessed struggles finding their way on the Internet.
When social media finally became the acceptable term, it -
The Arena Hildegarde
Last week's Arena commemorated the life and works of former Mozambican leader Samora Moises Machel who perished in a mysterious plane crash on then apartheid-ruled South African soil. I ended the piece thus, "To Cde Machel we say, A luta tem que continua! (The struggle MUST continue!)", and Africa will never be colonised again. However, I digress on part 2 of 21st century revolutions.
That day, another African leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his son Mutassim and an unknown number of aides were captured and killed in his home town of Sirte by rebels of the National Transitional Council assisted by NATO allied forces. NATO forces were the first to bombard Libya on March 19 claiming they were implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973's no-flying zone, and protecting the
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