Having been an atheist for 10 years now, it’s clear that my mission in life is to research and present the obvious negative impacts of colonial religions on African societies, in and outside the continent. I will shine a positive light on native African belief systems.
Everyday it's "who gon be boys?", calling men princesses, sassy man epidemic, etc. Then you say that women are looking for patriarchal dynamics in relationships and they look at you crazy.
“People say the Chinese make engines while Nigerians pray. But what many don’t understand is that nations have callings. Nigeria’s calling is to send missionaries into the whole world.” — Apostle Arome Osayi
WATCH | Apostle Rodney Chipoyera says speaking against or publicly correcting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom he describes as the “National Father of Zimbabwe,” is demonic.
David Olusoga's new two-part documentary series Finding Britain's Slave Traders airs on BBC2 at 9pm on Monday 21 and 28 September.
It is based on the newly-launched online database of 13,000 people involved in the transatlantic slave trade of African men, women and children.
Dear Wicknell,
Thank you for your generous words about my professional work and for your kind acknowledgment of my wife. I appreciate your recognition of the dedication with which I discharged the briefs entrusted to me.
My wife and I have carefully considered your announcement and must respectfully decline the vehicle and both cash gifts.
For clarity, we last spoke in June 2024, and I have undertaken no professional work for you since then. The historical work to which your tribute refers was performed in my professional capacity and paid for in full. My remuneration was for services actually rendered.
Your announcement came as a complete surprise, without prior notice or discussion. Given the distance that has developed between us since our last conversation, the substantial nature of the gifts, and their express connection to past professional services, I must approach this gesture with particular care.
Zimbabwe’s Legal Practitioners’ Code of Conduct requires us to preserve our integrity, safeguard our professional independence and maintain public confidence in the profession. The International Bar Association’s principles and the International Commission of Jurists’ writings likewise emphasise that a lawyer’s professional judgment must remain independent and free from conflicting personal interests.
Applying those standards to these circumstances, I consider it necessary to decline benefits that could reasonably create a perception of personal financial obligation extending beyond a concluded and fully remunerated professional engagement. My wife and I attach great importance to preserving both our professional standing and public confidence in our independence.
The independence reflected in your generous tribute is a responsibility I must continue to uphold.
Please receive our decision in the respectful spirit in which it is conveyed. We appreciate the generosity expressed and your acknowledgment of my past work. Our decision is nevertheless firm: we will not accept the vehicle or either of the cash gifts.
We wish you well and trust that you will understand and respect our position.
Advocate Dr Lewis Uriri
My brother Jacob @JMafume,
We grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, a generation sent to school by peasants who had endured nearly a century of colonial deprivation. The whole idea of independence was to emancipate the black Zimbabwean, who had been subjected to that cruelty for so long.
Today, my brother, I write to you in deep pain, because the women in that video represent the very mothers who sent our generation to university, selling tomatoes, onions and vegetables of every kind. They are in the streets today because they have no jobs, and the children they educated have no jobs either. The economy collapsed long ago.
I wonder whether you, as mayor of the capital city, might go and speak to the president about this. These people were put in the streets by the ruling party itself, before the election, and told they could sell their wares there. You know this, Mr Mayor. To treat our own people this way makes one question the whole essence of Ubuntu.
We complain when South Africans mistreat our people, kicking them out of the streets where they sell their goods, yet we come home and do the same to our own, and worse. At least the South Africans simply move people on. They do not destroy their goods the way we are doing here. It is evil, my brother.
I know the order comes from the central government, but I am pleading with you to show these women some empathy and compassion. Where else will they find money to put food on the table?
The bylaws being enforced were written by a colonial government that could actually provide jobs, one whose economy sustained those who could not find work by allowing them to trade at marketplaces.
Laws, and I say this because you are a lawyer, my brother, are rooted in common sense. They do not supersede it. A law makes sense only when it serves a purpose.
If a law forbids people from selling where their market has always existed, and you drive them away with no alternative, no industrial work for the men who once brought something home, then the wives are left with no choice but to take to the streets themselves. The men have nothing, and so the women step out like this.
I hope you will find it within yourself to reflect on this and speak to the president. We cannot treat our own people this way. We lose all humanity when we do, and when television cameras capture it for the world to see, other countries have no obligation to treat us any better.
Why should a South African treat me with more dignity than my own people show me at home?
I do not want to say much more. I have been deeply, deeply pained watching this video.