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Reason Wafawarova Political Monday It is simplistic and easy to narrate the history of Kenya when one is fantasising about coalition success stories; admiring the historic feat when the Rainbow Coalition fielded Mwai Kibaki as the sole candidate against KANU’s losing candidate Uhuru Kenyatta in 2002, who was to bounce back as Kenya’s President in […]
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Reason Wafawarova Political Mondays If there is something former Cuban leader Fidel Castro will be remembered for after his death on November 25, it is his potent symbolic stature as a spiritual beacon for the world’s oppressed and poorest, especially at the height of the Cold War. Of course, his detractors from the capitalist world will […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday BEING truthful is one of the hardest things to do for politicians, much as it is a general problem that bedevils humanity in general. I hear our politicians are telling villagers in Chimanimani West that they have some kind of a plan to make up for the looted diamonds of Chiadzwa, […]
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Reason Wafawarova: on Monday Western Europe’s political establishment has been shaken by Donald Trump’s populist victory in the United States — not exactly a populist one considering that the maverick tycoon did not win the popular vote. But the fear among Western Europe’s politicians now is that populism may start shaking the traditional establishment, threatening heavily the […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday SOMETIMES people just want to sin without consequences, and they will try by every means to create good explanations around their shortcomings. In religion, atheism is often seen as the best excuse to sin without thinking of the consequences. Once you have decided that God does not exist then you free yourself […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Of all hunting expeditions scapegoating or the search for a scapegoat is the easiest. In the wake of serious allegations of fraud levelled against Professor Jonathan Moyo and his deputy, one Godfrey Gandawa, the learned and witty Professor’s ready excuse has been pointing his accusers in the direction of his constituency […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday IN Africa, some of our politicians believe more in populism than developmental policy. We have short-sighted leaders who have made us pay a huge price that comes with failed leadership — their failed leadership. It is not too hard to figure out how populism works on the continent’s political landscape. Populism thrives on the […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Without equal concern for the issues affecting the governed, government is only a tyranny, and author Ronald Dworkin made good this point in his book “Sovereign Virtue.”
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday It is difficult to determine the position of the common person in Zimbabwe when a group of supposedly disenchanted Zimbabweans travels to the United States to make a protest point against their own Government on the streets of New York. It even gets a lot more complicated when the said group
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Naturally ideas have to evolve with time and so do politics. There was a time the liberation and empowerment ethos of the black power era was the engulfing thought among people of African decent across the world, and there was a time the anti-colonialism legacy gave a huge boost to the […]
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Reason Wafawarova On Monday President Mugabe hails from the school of nationalists that brought down the colonial empires, and he has obviously dedicated his entire life to independent nationalism. For people like him, a comparison can be made to someone who after surviving a perilous disease, chooses to devote all his life to vaccine research. Listening to President […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Zanu-PF is not an unpopular political party to warrant the threat of a popular uprising, and it is precisely on this basis that violent protests by youths from the opposition will only result in ruthless extinguishing.
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Our political culture in Africa can be dangerous for democracy in its Aristotelian sense. We somehow believe politics to be an art based on the invincibility of political leaders, and this expectation among our people has given us egoistic and power hungry individuals who are often dangerously
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Daniel Goldhagen coined the term eliminationism in his book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.” He centred his argument on the political ideology rooted in eliminative materialism, and from his viewpoint, our ordinary, common sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong.
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday We often make the mistake that the land we live in is an inheritance from our ancestors, and it is from this logic that we have not taken kindly to colonial conquest. While our ancestry truly gives us entitlement to the land of Zimbabwe, the truth about the land is that […]
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