LegalbriefAfrica opinions
This writer was a mere 13-year-old on the eve of Zimbabwe's national independence in April 1980. Then there was an enigmatic political atmosphere pitting the overrated and defeated camp of capitalist-leaning political leaders who had favoured an internal settlement with Ian Smith, now standing in opposition to revolutionary leaders Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, of the Patriotic Front.
Each time I am low, I have this vivifying habit of raking and harassing the cradle of my credo, Marxism. It must give me answers. Or at the very least give me questions the search for answers of which must lead to new insights. 
By Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa
I read the “transcript” of your conversation with my compatriot with much intrigue. Your view of the “third world” is not only dated in nomenclature, it is also dated in reality. When was the last time you were in Zambia? The Zambia of the 1980s is not the Zambia of 2012! Zambians are far from sleepy and lethargic (though I do not see sleep or dreaming as a bad thing). Perhaps it is because I subscribe to Rabindranath Tagore’s words, “I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I woke and saw that life was duty. I acted and behold, duty was joy.”
The tug-of-war pitting President Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema certainly has more drama than soap opera.
"I love the Queen; she is a beautiful lady. But I think time come." Who do you think this is? Incorrect! It is Portia Simpson Miller, the freshly sworn first female Prime Minister of Jamaica. I thought you would guess right by the interesting English syntactical construction, something I have always admired both Jamaicans and Nigerians for. If the Empire gave them a language, it forgot to give them rules for collocating words. They refused to accept the gift of a language which was a black box, a wrapped gift too sacred to be played with. They dismantled; they rebuilt, all to end up with a tool versatile enough to carry their own thoughts, their own feelings. See what we now have! Something ours, something England can never claim back.
