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THE world over, freedom of expression is not absolute. It comes with responsibility as an unconditional model of freedom of expression can degenerate into anarchy. MDC-T adopted this model no matter how much it is trampling on the rights of other citizens. It is doing this under the mask of Baba Jukwa, a faceless Facebook page.I have been mistaken for Achebe
I first met Chinua Achebe in 1961 at Makerere University in Kampala. His novel, Things Fall Apart, had come out, two years before. I was then a second year student, the author of just one story, Mugumo published in Penpoint, the literary magazine of the English Department.
Mandela’s greatness may be assured — but not his legacy
WHEN I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer B. J. Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at the gates, it was as if the guards had not changed. White Afrikaners checked my ID with the confidence of men in secure work. One carried a copy of Long Walk to Freedom,Baba Jukwa, Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks
A FEW months ago, I wrote on Deborah and Bruce, the British and American ambassadors. It was my charge that they were shameless hypocrites; not of conscious or deliberate effort but by an involuntary and subconscious superiority complex that has permeated their collective white psyche over a number of centuries.