Yesterday’s game between Manchester United and Chelsea has started countless debates on social networks, the blogosphere and the web in general. Great games always cause such discussions, as people will be talking about the stars who fail to shine, chances wasted and excellent play. This game, however, is being discussed mainly for the refereeing decisions…
The President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, is the poorest President in the world according to numerous reports. It is not hard to believe, considering that he donates 90% of his $12 500 monthly salary to charity and has an old Volkswagen car as his only other possession. He does not live in the Presidential palace,…
October cannot be a good month for African leaders, they seem to die a lot during this month. Just a few days ago Africans, home and abroad, celebrated the death of Thomas Sankara, today is the anniversary of Gaddafi’s death and, more relevant to this post, yesterday was the anniversary of Samora Machel’s death. So…
On 15 October 1987 in a coup led by the then Vice President (now President) of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, and believed to be backed and instructed by France, Captain Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso was killed. Africa’s truest revolutionary was then buried in an unmarked grave and his erstwhile friend Blaise Compaore became President.
Dear Rahman. I know it is not easy carrying the hopes of an entire nation, less so when that nation is Zimbabwe, whose citizens are always complaining about one thing or the other. Yesterday is a day best forgotten for you and millions of Zimbabweans. It was a terrible day, a disastrous end to…
A few months ago a thief was caught at the University of Zimbabwe trying to make off with a laptop. He nearly succeeded and was only apprehended because the taxi he boarded delayed allowing the victims to reach the taxi terminus and conduct a search. The unfortunate thief was dragged back into the University and…
Last October Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai supported gay rights during a BBC interview and caused a media frenzy back home.A year on, the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) debate rages still with Zimbabweans yet to speak with one voice. I reproduce here, a post I wrote last year, soon after the PM made his rather politically inexpedient remarks.
The Akan people of Ghana have a proverb which goes, “Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi.” Literally translated it means, “It is not wrong (taboo) to go back and fetch what you forgot. From the proverb comes the word Sankofa, which means ‘Go back and get it.’ The symbol of Sankofa is a…
Africa, like any other place, has its problems, fears, hopes, beauty, aspirations and dreams. To put it shortly, Africa has its own story- a story that can only be told fully by Africans. This story, however, has been so grossly distorted in the past 500 years. After a discussion of such distortions, a friend sent…
Last month when the University of Zimbabwe refused to accept students on the cadetship scheme because of a huge outstanding debt, the then Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Cde Stan Mudenge ordered the University to open its doors to all students regardless of financial status. Commendable, especially coming from a man who was unpopular…
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