Anotida Chikumbu

Johannesburg, Massachusetts

Opinion and Analysis Columnist at Daily Maverick

Teaching Associate and Frederic Gilbert Bauer-Graduate Research Fellow @ the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Articles

The Forgotten Narratives: Mobilization, Recruitment and Wartime Experiences of World War Two African Servicemen from Southern Rhodesia, (Colonial Zimbabwe) c.1939-1945 in: International Journal of Military History and Historiography - Ahead of print

Sep 29, 2024 | brill.com | Anotida Chikumbu

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Book Review: African decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950-1963

Apr 5, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Anotida Chikumbu |Shame Makoshori |Tinashe Kairiza |Gamuchirai Nyamuziwa

The revolutionary political transformation that spread across Africa in the aftermath of the Second World War revived and accelerated African nationalism and the decolonisation movement tremendously. Beginning with Ghana in 1957, many African countries in west, east and central Africa gained independence on the basis of black majority rule at a lightning speed.
Book Review: African decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950-1963

Apr 5, 2024 | theindependent.co.zw | Anotida Chikumbu |Shame Makoshori |Tinashe Kairiza |Gamuchirai Nyamuziwa

The revolutionary political transformation that spread across Africa in the aftermath of the Second World War revived and accelerated African nationalism and the decolonisation movement tremendously. Beginning with Ghana in 1957, many African countries in west, east and central Africa gained independence on the basis of black majority rule at a lightning speed.
Zvikomborero Murimbechi

Mar 6, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Zvikomborero Murimbechi |Anotida Chikumbu |Stephen Chadenga |Silas Nkala

AMH is an independent media house free from political ties or outside influence. We have four newspapers: The Zimbabwe Independent, a business weekly published every Friday, The Standard, a weekly published every Sunday, and Southern and NewsDay, our daily newspapers. Each has an online edition.
Corruption is complex, multifaceted

Mar 1, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Zvikomborero Murimbechi |Anotida Chikumbu |Tatira Zwinoira |Tinashe Kairiza

In many casual discussions among citizens today, corruption is usually defined as the domain of powerful elites as shown in the recent Gold Mafia documentaries, or of large-scale scandals exposed by mainstream media. The elites are usually referred to as “varikumusoro” in the local parlance to mean, “those at the top”. It is often argued that this group sometimes engages in dodgy deals and activities that undermine national development for their personal gain.
‘Remembering Colonialism in Zim’

Jan 12, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Anotida Chikumbu |Shame Makoshori |Freeman Makopa |Melody Chikono

On September 13, 1890, Lieutenant Edward Tyndale-Biscoe hoisted the Union Jack on the kopje overlooking Fort Salisbury (Harare). This signified the official colonisation of Zimbabwe by Cecil John Rhode’s British South Africa Company (BSAC). For the next hundred years, Africans in Mashonaland and Matabeleland were subjected to racially discriminatory and oppressive treatments. They lost their land, political rights, and livelihood sources.
‘Remembering Colonialism in Zim’

Jan 12, 2024 | theindependent.co.zw | Anotida Chikumbu |Shame Makoshori |Freeman Makopa |Melody Chikono

On September 13, 1890, Lieutenant Edward Tyndale-Biscoe hoisted the Union Jack on the kopje overlooking Fort Salisbury (Harare). This signified the official colonisation of Zimbabwe by Cecil John Rhode’s British South Africa Company (BSAC). For the next hundred years, Africans in Mashonaland and Matabeleland were subjected to racially discriminatory and oppressive treatments. They lost their land, political rights, and livelihood sources.
Embrace radical politics or perish

Jan 5, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | David Chikwaza |Anotida Chikumbu |Freeman Makopa |Tanyaradzwa Kapuru

The recent parliamentary recalls triggered by the self-proclaimed interim secretary general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Sengezo Tshabangu, is a serious cause of concern that has left many CCC supporters and the nation at large questioning the future of opposition politics in Zimbabwe. There are basically three critical questions niggling the minds of many. First, does CCC have an effective strategy to take power? Secondly, how effective is it if they in fact have one?
David Chikwaza - The Southern Eye

Jan 4, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | David Chikwaza |Anotida Chikumbu |Silas Nkala |Patricia sibanda

AMH is an independent media house free from political ties or outside influence. We have four newspapers: The Zimbabwe Independent, a business weekly published every Friday, The Standard, a weekly published every Sunday, and Southern and NewsDay, our daily newspapers. Each has an online edition.
Blinkered loyalty to corrupt leaders is not patriotism

Oct 24, 2022 | newsday.co.zw | Anotida Chikumbu