“The Bob Marley spirit is a source of inspiration — whether in hair, meditation, or mentality. “Even me, I grew up with a ...

At a dinner party in Salisbury (Harare) in the late1950s when white rule in Rhodesia was at its height, Terence Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85, told the left-wing academic ...

Takudzwa Chikepe, who was raised in Harare, was not born at the time of Marley’s historic performance. Known as VaChikepe The ...

For many decades, Africans were under colonial rule that gave them little or no chance to express their desires. Despite the numerous obstacles, some youngsters (who eventually became renowned African ...

One of the most significant aspects of the Rhodesian government was its investment in local infrastructure, particularly in education and healthcare. Rhodesia had some of the best medical institutions ...

Few knew that it was Lord (Christopher) Soames (the last governor of Southern Rhodesia) who virtually ordered Mugabe to make the appointment of the Englishman Denis Norman to agriculture and a Scot ...

A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, journalist and writer Peter Godwin states that his is not a “conventional memoir” – its aim is to “reflect [on] the enduring power of memory”. Therefore, it ...

Source: Could an Englishman be Zimbabwe’s first saint? Is Zimbabwe on its way to having its first Catholic saint? And might ...