Arts & Books

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Zimbabweans ought to take time to understand the country’s tortured history of violence in order to make sense of the present.

In April 2001 the seeds of a girls’ football and development programme were sown in Kilifi district, coastal Kenya.

‘How are you doing today sister?’ is a question that LeTava Mabilijengo in her book: ‘The Black Woman’s Agenda: Inner Peace & the Power of Black Love, Revolutionary-minded Black Women’ encourages black women to ask each other on a daily basis.

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February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office following a landslide election victory, and launced his revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela.

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Nelson Mandela’s ‘Conversations with Myself’ takes the reader through the meanders in the life of a man widely acclaimed as the world’s longest-serving political prisoner.