It is one thing to point out problems as a critic and a whole other domain to take charge and provide the solution. Tinashe Mushakavanhu, a leading Zimbabwean literary critic, earned notoriety for rou...
Zimbabwe’s new board of censors was greeted with suspicion last week. Sceptics, wary of political interests and cultural biases lording it over free speech, have pointed out the board’s colonial origi...
Dorian Gray, a young man abandoned to a sensual lifestyle, commissions an artist to paint him a life-size portrait. As Gray rakes himself with pleasure, the mythic picture bears the marks, while he pe...
Book: The Internet Is Not the Answer Author: Andrew Keen Publisher: Atlantic (2015) ISBN: 978-0-8021-2313-8 If the history of modern societies was to be simplified into one thread, it would be most li...
The United Nations (UN) solicits European entries for a poster design competition to mark the tenth anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The winning entry by Stefan Einarsson from I...
The value of knowledge, chiefly its facility to maximise the human potential, is geographically agnostic. Knowledge is the foremost resource for any economy, and failure to access, utilise and re...
Early hours, when sun and song awaken surbubia to finer delights, and uptown vistas spread out, leaders may never suspect what it takes to endure life away from vastly diverting luxury. For then every...
William Shakespeare is not new to posthumous conspiracy. Latter-day men of letters such as G.B Shaw and Leo Tolstoy have questioned the universal acclamation with which Shakespeare is read. For them, ...
Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (TM) is one of the better-known “born-free” Zimbabwean writers and academics. He has edited “Emerging Perspectives on Chenjerai Hove: Literature, Politics and Culture,” “Rememb...
