Tag: Samora Machel

Jan 10

R.I.P. EUSEBIO, FOOTBALL KING!

        R.I.P. FOOTBALL KING EUSEBIO! By CAMERON DUODU     In the annals of colonialism, the Portuguese were as bad as it gets. Next to the Boers in South Africa and the British in the Rhodesias, they treated their African subjects as little better than beasts of burden.     Africans in …

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Dec 01

APARTHEID’S REVENGE

  APARTHEID’S REVENGE by CAMERON DUODU (First published in May 2008) There are certain times when the English language refuses to accommodate one’s feelings. How, for instance, does one say ‘Mese afem’in English? ‘My teeth have gnashed together against each other?’ . No! For although that does give an idea of discomfort, the bitterness one …

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