Opinion & Analysis

4 years ago | March 8, 2020

Making sense of Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas

When the flag of the newly independent Ghana was raised against the night sky of Accra 63 years ago, the whole world was ...

Trump slumps US down Freedom Index: Report

When critics of President Trump argue that he is a threat to democracy, his supporters tell us to relax. No one is ...

New era for girls: Taking stock of 25 years of progress

As we celebrate International Women’s Day today, we must turn our attention to the 1,1 billion girls under the age of 18 ...

Francophone West Africa mulls single currency

The eight Francophone states that form the West African Economic and Monetary Union have agreed to drop the use of the ...

Time for youth to export!

ZimTrade — the national trade development and promotion organisation —recently launched a youth incubation programme ...

Gender-based dynamics of leadership

Last week’s instalment shone the spotlight on the double-bind that many women leaders find themselves in, whereupon if ...

4 years ago | March 6, 2020

History of pandemics

The Covid-19 disease outbreak is set to cost the global economy more than US$1 trillion in lost output if it turns a ...

4 years ago | March 3, 2020

Do mobile money providers care?

A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow! Business success is driven by experiences and this is only possible ...

4 years ago | March 1, 2020

No going back on de-dollarisation

There has been a degree of confusion, some deliberately generated, and misunderstanding over the process of de-dollarisation.

For some of us, God is alive!

For Bishop Lazi and his ilk, Ash Wednesday, which was observed last week, is a particularly sacred day in the liturgical ...

‘I saw people dying; it was traumatising’

This week, we focus on ex-liberation war veteran Cde Isaac Muguti Chivendera (IMC), whose nom de guerre was Cde Busy ...

Women leaders: doomed if they do, doomed if they don’t

To be competent or to be liked? That is a question many leading women face and are unable to answer satisfactorily; and ...

Touching lives through Project Dzimba

 It took what probably many people might describe as a “simple slip”. But that “was not so simple for Samson Sithole’s ...

Who will remember Bob Marley?

Bob Marley was not Jamaican. Neither was he Caribbean. Nor African. He was a global icon and as such, no part of the ...

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