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since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe’s internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreigners who think Zimbabwe incurably remains a white man’s burden. Well, it isn’t, never has agreed to be, even though white-occupied and traumatised for nearly a century. Even though it faces a real risk of resurgent neo-colonialism after almost four decades of formal freedom. Not many realise that the Rhodes and Lugards of the imperialist colonial world continue to lurk and live, albeit under different guises and titles, and always invoking different arguments to legitimise their claim and hold over us. They have sought to modernise and re-issue colonial histories, to neatly re-package them using different lexicon and lingo, to make our continuing vassalage direly needful, urgently desirable and cheerfully borne, indeed reckoned as a benchmark to modernity.
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Judging by on-line reaction, this column has only a handful of readers, but millions of critics! Which is what makes writing it worth every of my while. Week in, week out, you get fiery feedback from persons who, having been upset by its postulates, swear by their chaste mothers they haven’t read beyond the first word of it.
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Where I come from you don’t begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty ‘bull’. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and does not add one beast more into the kraal. So you let kids play, as long as you ensure they are in village rags, and not in their school uniforms. We all came through that route anyway, all to become today’s “large” men and women, with sins, children and all.
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Hey hoo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have a new quartermaster! One who knows it all, and manages the national armoury from far-away Kenya. Maybe these are the wonders of a twitter epoch: you know it all, write it all, comment on all, and safely from afar.
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UNDER THE EAVES WITH IGOMOMBE Gentle reader, I am sure you have listened to the Twitter live-cast involving the two mighty men of Generation-40, a.k.a. National Patriotic Front. I am referring of course to Jonso and Zhuwao who claim they accidentally broadcast themselves “live” as they trudged the streets of Kenya. And of course the […]
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I have just been reading Deluze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It’s a big book, one quite opaque and thus requiring stout intellect and a liberal outlook to digest it.
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DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can’t be play, play, play forever.
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UNDER THE EAVES with Igomombe Before going very far, let me introduce myself. I came into this world some day in the month of Kubvumbi – the just-ended month of tail showers. Many troubled years later, it would also become the month of our Independence which came exactly two weeks after the day commemorating my […]
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