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Topical: Chris Nyathi, left, and Oumi Ndaba in Nyasha Kadandara’s documentary Matabeleland about a Zimbabwean immigrant’s journey home from South Africa to retrieve his father’s bones. Photo: Supplied

Whose Zimbabwe is it anyway?

Beautifully made and emotionally rich, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight exposes the uneasy truth of who gets to tell Zimbabwe’s story

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Setting the scene: Dancers, choreographed by Luyanda Sidiya, in Dancing the Death Drill. Photos: Joburg Theatre

Dancing the Death Drill: A Resurrection of forgotten spirits

Dancing the Death Drill is more than theatre — it is a resurrection, a requiem and a haunting reminder of forgotten African history

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
In black and white: The Nkosi family circa 1942, in a photo taken on the steps of a church in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Morley Nkosi, author of the memoir The Way Home, is seated in the middle.

Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

8 min read
Ethiopia puts paid to Western perceptions that African people lack history and are incapable of poetry, philosophy and science. Photo: File

Ali Mazrui’s view on how Ethiopia solves the West’s ‘puzzle’ about Africa

Ethiopia puts paid to Western perceptions that African people lack history and are incapable of poetry, philosophy and science

8 min read
Adekeye Adebajo’s book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994

A panoramic view of a continent

My latest book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994

  • Eyaaz
8 min read
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The impact of colonialism on contemporary African knowledge systems

Africans need to return to communalism and share knowledge to thrive together in the 21st century

5 min read
Redemption song: Bob Marley on stage during the Viva Zimbabwe independence celebrations at Rufaro Stadium, Salisbury (later Harare), Zimbabwe, on 18 April 1980. Photo: William Campbell/Getty Images

Songs of freedom in a dancehall in Zimbabwe

Bass culture is as old as Zimbabwe itself

  • Eyaaz
5 min read