ZNyaya
Leisurely reads, opinions, profiles, travel guides, and cultural deep-dives for the weekend.
The Soft Target
 Baba Tafara lives forty minutes from a mine. The road to his house is gravel. The nearest clinic has no ambulance. Trucks pass his gate every hour, and the dust settles on his roof and his maize.He b...
Knowledge Is the New Infrastructure
 Why Africa and the Global South must build symbiotic relationships with nations willing to share the secrets of their modernization Saxon Zvina I. Shifting Global Gravity and the Meaning of Symbiotic...
The Man Who Posted the Receipts
 Wicknell Chivayo died on Wednesday evening. The helicopter carrying him came down near Marondera, and the aviation authority is investigating. He was 43. His wife, Lucy Muteke, died with him, along w...
An Empire Brews?
 Mai Chenjerai lives in a ward where the chieftainship changed hands twice in one season. A man arrived saying the spirit mediums had named him King Munhumutapa, and that this gave him the power to de...
Were Those Smiles Fake?
 Emison HaripindiLong before the CCC led by Nelson Chamisa was formed, CCC meant something else â Cash, Car, Cellular.Yes, at the turn of the millennium, owning those three Cs meant one was a Mbinga,...
The Grammar We Reach For
 Baba Tanaka used to say it about everything. The boy who stole mangoes. The tenant who was late with rent. The MP who crossed the floor. âNgaarohwe.â Let him be beaten. It was not really advice. It w...
Zimbabwe Has Escaped the Fragile List. Has It Escaped Fragility?
  Zimbabwe has won an important international vote of confidence, but the celebration over its removal from the World Bankâs fragile and conflict-affected classifications comes with an uncomfortable q...
The President's Two Ledgers
 Rodwell Mtetwa stood at Kariba District Hospital in the middle of August and announced the number: US$100.That was what the government would give each family affected by the ferry disaster that had,...
The Politics of the Record
 By Simbarashe NamusiThere is something increasingly fascinating about the Second Republic's relationship with records.Zimbabwe has been presented with records in tobacco production, exhibition attend...
Spare a thought for the Biker.
 By Emison Haripindi A lot has been said about bikers.Nasty comments are posted on social media about bad habits by motorbike riders.Motorists defend themselves, suggesting that bikers are all to blam...