You ever feel like the whole damn planet suddenly remembered Africa exists. Not because they actually give a shit about Africans, but because the minerals are running low everywhere else and China has been scooping up the continent like it’s a Black Friday sale? Because that’s exactly what’s happening. And now, out of nowhere, every global superpower is acting like they’ve always loved us, like … Continue reading Africa is The New Cold War Front
Sometimes I look at my social media feed and wonder when exactly I became an unpaid U.S. political analyst, commentator or whatever. I live thousands of kilometers away, my taxes don’t go there, I don’t vote there, and yet every day I’m force-fed a steady diet of American political drama like it’s my emotional multivitamin. I open TikTok: screaming match between a congressman and a … Continue reading The World Didn’t Sign Up To Be America’s Captive Audience (But Here We Are)
Some days I think the United States doesn’t actually want to fix anything. I think the country is addicted to decline the same way some people are addicted to astrology. I think that’s bcause it’s easier to believe Mercury is in retrograde than to admit you forgot to pay your bills. Everyone is screaming about apocalypse like it’s a sport. Right-wing apocalypse, left-wing apocalypse, climate … Continue reading America’s Love Affair With “The End Of The World”
Looking back, it seems strange that we ever expected truth to survive here. Not because Zimbabwe is uniquely cursed, no, but because we kept insisting that honesty could flourish in a place where every incentive favoured its opposite. Perhaps one day, when someone brave enough attempts to record our era with any sincerity, they will probably observe that the death of truth was not sudden. … Continue reading The Last Honest Word in Zimbabwe
For months, US President Donald Trump has insisted his administration’s campaign in Venezuela is a counter-narcotics mission. Washington’s talking points lean heavily on the fentanyl crisis, the need for decisive action, the dangers of “transnational criminal networks.” Yet the U.S. State Department’s own 2025 report names Mexico and China as the only significant fentanyl sources affecting the United States. The document is explicit. The drug … Continue reading The New Monroe Doctrine: How Washington Is Rewriting Sovereignty in the Age of Resource Politics
The arrival of a new currency is always a public event, but it is rarely only about economics. The ZiG entered Zimbabwe’s daily life with a mixture of curiosity, caution and quiet fatigue. People lined up at banks. Others waited to see if shop prices would move. Most simply kept using whatever currency they trusted. A new note in a wallet can feel hopeful. It can also feel like an echo of things the country would rather forget.
Zimbabwe’s latest fiscal idea arrives with a simple promise: from January 2026, banks and mobile money operators will withhold fifteen percent on payments made to offshore digital platforms. It is meant to close a gap. The argument is that subscription fees and platform commissions stream out of the country without passing through the tax net, and the Treasury sees an opportunity to capture what has long slipped by.
I’ve finally concluded there’s something suspicious about the human brain. During the day, mine can barely manage basic tasks. Ask me what I ate yesterday, I mostly have no idea. Ask me where I left my charger and I’ll only find it when I get a new one. My brain operates like a lazy intern: shows up late, does the bare minimum, takes long breaks. … Continue reading My Brain at 3AM Is a Dangerous Place
US President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s crown prince knew nothing about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, which is an incredible thing to say with a straight face. It’s like insisting the sun had nothing to do with daylight. And he didn’t whisper it in some hallway. He said it in the Oval Office. The room where people pretend to be serious even when they’re … Continue reading Oval Office Deals and Dismembered Journalists
They say we are living through a war of the sexes, but if you pay attention, the war feels less like a revolution and more like a stage play. Lines scripted, roles rehearsed, outrage distributed like rations. People take sides as if humanity itself could be neatly split into blue and pink camps. Yet when you look closer, what emerges is not a natural struggle … Continue reading The Manufactured Gender War
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