Some time last year, I was warned by an exacting reader of this column, Michael Kaliika, to cease and desist from further writings on Dangamvura experiences. I promised this tough critic that I was done. However, for...
There is a new mini-series on Netflix called Adolescence. It is a story set in England and involves a 13-year-old boy called Jamie who is suspected of murdering a female classmate. I won’t spoil for you how...
Robert Nesta Marley died on 11 May 1981. He was only 36. Incredibly, by the time of his demise he had created an oeuvre of music that is timeless, conscious and eternally relevant. Marley chose a Jamaican...
The imposition of Zezuru as the standard dialect has done more harm than good, writes Douglas Mutepaire, sharing his personal experiences of language discrimination. To build true national unity, he writes here, it’s time we confront the...
It has been a spectacular six weeks of drama and seismic global policy shifts since Donald Trump assumed office. The businessman-cum-politician has looked at the US balance sheet and decided it cannot be business as usual.
On 16 January this year, my dog Bordeaux died. At sixteen years old, she was half-blind and hard of hearing. Where before, she had the energy of a nuclear bomb, Bordeaux now walked slowly and spent most...
I doubt that Evans Mawarire knew how #ThisFlag campaign would shake the ZANU PF regime to the core when he launched it by accident in 2016. What had just begun as a video post on Facebook by...
By Ranga Mberi
Growing up, I was always fascinated by a church they only called “chechi yemadhirezi marefu”. The church of the long dresses!
I’d see them on their way to...
Way back in the mid-1970s, my family worshipped at the Pentecostal Church in Zimunya Township, some twelve kilometres from the city centre of Mutare. Our preacher was Reverend Piniel Chimuriwo. He was a simple man – always...
Recently, someone posed a question on social media that had some nerds, and the usual frivolous brigade, jumping in to respond. The post said:
plutocracy - rule by the wealthy
kleptocracy...
