
The gods of liberation
The imperative to tell the untold stories of Zimbabwean freedom fighters during that country’s liberation war, especially their engagement with spirituality.
The imperative to tell the untold stories of Zimbabwean freedom fighters during that country’s liberation war, especially their engagement with spirituality.
NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel 'Glory' forcefully evokes the Zimbabwean political landscape but struggles to stretch itself beyond the documentarian, vacillating between the journalistic and fictive.
Magaisa, who died this month, set agendas, and demanded the highest standards from the political and intellectual classes in Zimbabwe.
This month on AIAC Radio, Boima invites Liam Brickhill to talk cricket, select some cricket related tunes, and glance at the game from the viewpoint of Zimbabwe.
A people’s history of Zimbabwe’s first mbira punk band, Chikwata 263, who wanted a soundtrack for the country’s post-post colonial blues.
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's novel "The Theory of Flight" may be the first to take seriously Zimbabwe’s complicated race politics, beyond the obvious black vs whites.
Gonora Sounds’ music gets at what it means to be a Zimbabwean: We might be crying, but we are also dancing.
In November 2017, Robert Mugabe was toppled in a coup. Amid this epochal change, life—and cricket—simply went on for Zimbabweans, who are still in search of a better future.
On the next AIAC Talk, we talk with several AIAC fellows about their work. Tuesday on Youtube.
African “refugeeness” in the media, policy, and academia is an essentialist physical image conflating material deprivation and multiple victimhoods.
Trevor Madondo achieved a certain immortality in Zimbabwean cricketing lore precisely for the way in which he confronted cricket’s history as an instrument of empire.
While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.
The government of Zimbabwe has decided it does not care whether Zimbabweans live or die.
Traditional chiefs and the politics of labor recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry.
What happened to the once universally accepted idea of healthcare for all?
What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe’s national football was under black control decades before independence—but the colonial legacy of racial segregation still haunts.
An effective response to imminent starvation in Zimbabwe requires listening to the country's farmers.
Public sector strikes place major pressure on the Zimbabwean state, but not enough to effect a meaningful national dialogue on the country's direction.
Evan Mawarire became a leader against Mugabe and ZANU-PF’s oppression in Zimbabwe, but at what personal cost?