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6Feb

By Onai MushavaNo Comments

Books, History

Stanlake Samkange Bibliography

Stanlake Samkange Bibliography Stanlake Samkange was Zvimba’s and Mashonaland’s first graduate. He obtained his B.A. degree in English and History at Fort Hare University College in 1947. A Professor of History, he has taught at Fisk University, Nashville exas, Havard, and North Eastern University, Boston Mass. He is the founder of Nyatsime College. By Mukoma Onai, December 14, 2025 Samkange, SJT. (1994). “Nyatsime African College”. New Rhodesia. 23 (19). pp 19. Samkange, SJT. (1994). “When Sir Godfrey Huggins Goes – A Survey of the Possible Successors to Sir Godfrey Huggins as Federal Prime Minister”. The New Commonwealth, 28. pp 667-668. Samkange, SJT. (1959). “Crisis in Central Africa: How to be a Partner. Part One”. Twentieth Century, 165 (4). pp. 365-368. ...

27Apr

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Books, History

Bill Saidi Was a Renaissance Man

Bill Saidi Was a Renaissance Man Bill Saidi was a proud and free spirit. He maintained a bare-knuckle approach to journalism, paid occasionally for standing in the way of power but became a presence wherever he turned. By Mukoma Onai, January 10, 2017 Bill Saidi was a proud and free spirit. He maintained a bare-knuckle approach to journalism, paid occasionally for standing in the way of power but became a presence wherever he turned. The black-and-white columnist mugshot with a Stalinist moustache arched above a stubborn smile had its day from Zimpapers to Modus Publications, ANZ and AMH. His stylish op-eds occupied real estate across the main stables as he pompously hopped from newsroom to newsroom like a journalism equivalent of Moses Chunga. Saidi had lost his ...

6Jan

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History

Reply to ‘The Case for Colonialism’

I am the savage you want to groom for the Queen’s kitchen, the eunuch in whose presence madams, Helen Zille and Marie Le Pen, can safely undress. I am the collateral damage underfoot grand crusades of civilisation, the scum of the Dark Continent who got away when you shovelled my people into a mass grave for imagining they were full-blooded humans like you. I picked up crumbs of your language when I was a serf on Rhodes’s farm, though my Bantu accent rings discordantly against it, and my dark skin is a synonym for everything wrong with the world. I may be only an ape in a work suit, but I hear just fine when polite society talks about me. The budding humanity in me cringes and my fur stands on end when I see blades sharpened for me in broad daylight. I am not a broiler that innocently ...

“Mawonero/Umbono” Questions Accepted Truths about Zimbabwean Art History

17Oct

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Books, History, Sculpture

“Mawonero/Umbono” Questions Accepted Truths about Zimbabwean Art History

"Mawonero/Umbono" Questions Accepted Truths about Zimbabwean Art History Mawonero” is Shona for “perspective,” while “umbono” is the Ndebele equivalent. Insider perspectives on Zimbabwean art by Raphael Chikukwa, Doreen Sibanda, Zvikomborero Mandangu, Tashinga Matindike-Gondo and Farai Chabata make up the new publication. While there has been no shortage of material on Zimbabwe’s visual arts sector, the contributors attempt an exclusively Zimbabwean joint feat and generously upload representative artworks into their narrative. By Onai Mushava | October 17, 2015 Book: Mawonero/UmbonoEdited by Ignatius MabasaPublisher: Kerber Verlag (2015)ISBN: 978-3-86678-937-1 Zimbabwe’s earliest patriarchs were masters of art. The keynote symbols of our national identity are drawn f...