Zimbabwe is a paradox. A country riddled with contradictions. While the often unpalatable and sometimes hair-raising stories are making news, the stories of everyday people of Zimbabwe are less reported, if not altogether the country’s best kept secret. “Generally, Africa seems to be portrayed in a negative light,” says Gerald Mugwenhi, better known as Synik, […]
Last Thursday, Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court unanimously “chastised” state security agents for torturing Jestina Mukoko, national director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, four years ago.
As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.
American media should focus on the real political struggles in Zimbabwe and not think that the government of national unity has brought Zimbabwe out of a period of violent political conflict.
Short recent video profile by VOA’s Nico Colombant of the Zimbabwean artist, illustrator and designer R!OT (also known as Sindiso Nyoni).
Land reform and Zimbabwe; say those words in any order and you get a reaction. It obviously was a failed and atrocious attempt of a corrupt leader who bribes people to vote for him and then still lies about the result just to be popular amongst his people. Obviously. Well, obviously at least if you […]
The trailer for the feature film “Short Cut” (to be directed by Norman Maake) about the quest of two brothers to escape a life of hardship and political turmoil in Zimbabwe and decide to travel to Johannesburg only to be forced into slavery in an illegal mine in a border town. As Maake explains: “They […]
One of the leaders of Zimbabwe's opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.
“The Zimbabwe Alliance is a funder/advocate partnership to promote a vibrant civil society and a successful democratic transformation in Zimbabwe. The alliance is non partisan and does not accept corporate funds.” Nothing here we are not in support of, so we figured we’d share this promotional video for the Zimbabwe Alliance, recorded by Nomadic Wax’s […]
As 42 opposition activists were facing treason charges in Zimbabwe for watching video footage of the Egyptian democracy protests, the Financial Times sent Alec Russell, its comment and analysis editor, down to Harare to interview Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister. Tsvangirai’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change is serving together in a Government of National Unity […]
http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his ‘Lost for Words’, recorded in Harare by Magee McIlvaine for Nomadic Wax. – Tom Devriendt
Via Patrick Bond: Last weekend a group of Zimbabwe scholars–organized by University of Kwazulu-Natal School for Development Studies PhD student, Showers Mawowa, and University of Johannesburg professor David Moore–met in Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, to discuss political and economic developments in that country. (I have copies of the papers; email me off-blog and I’ll forward them […]
This film "Mugabe and the White African," is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32pplDyPlo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My friend, Wendy Willems, former Londoner now teaching media studies at Wits University, pointed me to the music of part-Londoner, part-Zimbabwean Tinashe. This is the single “Saved,” of his debut album out in early August. Below is a recent video interview Tinashe did with culture blog, Afripop:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFCSfP6mH0&w=480&h=295] The talks about trade opportunities between Iran and Zimbabwe during a visit to Zimbabwe by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is all just bombast and hides other sinister political motives (like vote buying in Zimbabwe’s elections by Life President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF). Of course, they’re not hiding it very well. Al Jazeera English
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wlh_HF2Y8E&w=600&h=373] By now you’ve seen some version of this footage–in this case from a South African TV channel, ETV–of the events earlier today when Julius Malema, the leader of the ANC’s Youth League, kicked a BBC journalist, Jonah Fisher, out of an ANC YL press conference for interrupting him. Malema was there to talk about […]
[vodpod id=Video.3381102&w=450&h=370&fv=] Jon Stewart, on last night’s “The Daily Show,” unpacks the maverick politics of John McCain, who is engaged in a tough re-election bid against a Tea Party candidate in Arizona and has been flip-flopping on his positions to gain traction with that crowd. To make his point Stewart throws in a Zimbabwe reference […]
How Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's Life President since 1980, bested CNN's Christiane Amampour.