Andrew Chatora

“From Zimbabwe to the world: Friesian Publishing is here to champion daring, decolonial storytelling. Press release in This is Africa 👇” thisisafrica.me/arts-and-cultu…

In conversation with @GourdPoetry on Friesian Publishing. A recent conversation with Khumbulani Muleya on literature, publishing, and the thinking behind Friesian Publishing. Full interview at the link below: thisisafrica.me/arts-and-cultu…

A quiet but meaningful moment for Friesian Publishing. Grateful to see the imprint mentioned in The Bookseller. Still at the beginning, but encouraged by every sign that thoughtful independent publishing continues to matter. See below👇

Huge congratulations to fellow Zimbabwean author @andrew_chatora on launching @FriesianPub! Submissions are open - please send in your best work 🧡📚

Honoured to see the launch of Friesian Publishing covered by The Daily News in Zimbabwe. A platform centring voices from the margins and the diaspora. Full story below 👇 dailynews.co.zw/zim-novelist-e…

Nina Simone - Work Song -

➡️ Blessed Mhlanga’s powerful Geneva Summit speech 🇿🇼: “Because when repression hides behind the law and hides behind sovereignty, the poor suffer and they are forced to flee from their home, from their country as refugees into YOUR homes, and you call them illegal immigrants and you push them out violently. But it is because of your silence that they have been pushed away from their homes that they love so much. I stand here. I will stay in Zimbabwe regardless, because I believe in my country and I love it.”

We all have poetic thoughts and therefore we are all Poets

This Black History Month, I want to celebrate the Black icons we should all know. The scientists, the musicians, the doctors, the poets, the pioneers who broke every barrier and changed the world for all of us. 🙏🏾❤️ Music: @andradaymusic

Kompany’s worldie vs Leicester. Stones’ line clearance vs Liverpool. Bobb’s winner vs Newcastle. Ortega’s save vs Spurs. Every title winning season has had its defining moments and that Donnarumma’s save belongs right there with them. Elation.

British TV anchor @KamaliMelbourne of Sky News with a moving, personal response to Trump’s posting of the racist clip of the Obamas. I know Kamali just a little. I’m proud of him for saying this — and sad we’re in a moment when he has to.

1/ Thread 🧵 The word “legend” is used too loosely at times. But on Madzibaba Nicholas Zakaria? It sits perfectly. They call him “Senior Lecturer” because he nurtured the talents of many Sungura stars. Here’s a small thread on the icon. But first, a few of his bangers 🔥

ON THIS DAY: Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. In 1995, she spoke to @DebRobertsABC and reflected on not giving up her bus seat: abcnews.link/eO9dosl

70 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. We all must continue to carry her legacy, fighting for equality and speaking up against injustice.

@derecktafuma @ZimbabweHistor2 Brilliant stuff Derek! Thanks for these useful insights. I’m currently working on something on Samkange and would be delighted to gift you my book once it’s published. Regards.

Fascinating spotlight on Stanlake Samkange – a true intellectual giant. One small correction for accuracy: his Indiana University PhD in African History was awarded in 1968 (not 1959), making his achievement even more remarkable given the intensified racial barriers in U.S. graduate schools still imposed on African students in the 1960s. What often gets overlooked is how rare and psychologically taxing it was for a black Southern Rhodesian to navigate a decade-long doctoral journey in Jim Crow–adjacent America while simultaneously carrying the hopes of an entire nationalist movement back home. From a mental-health and systems-thinking lens, Samkange essentially bootstrapped a one-man “knowledge repatriation pipeline” long before the concept existed – a form of high-stakes intellectual entrepreneurship under triple oppression (colonial, racial, and Cold-War ideological). His later work on Hunhu/Ubuntu as an ethical framework for governance also feels strikingly contemporary: in an era where AI systems are being trained on largely Western datasets, Samkange’s insistence that personhood and knowledge are communally constituted offers a powerful counter-model for how we might design more humane, context-aware technologies. Grateful for posts like this that keep these stories alive – they remind us that “firsts” are never just individual triumphs but nodes in much longer networks of resilience. #StanlakeSamkange #AfricanIntellectualHistory #UbuntuAI #DecolonialKnowledge #ZimbabweanLegends

DID YOU KNOW Stanlake John William Thompson Samkange, a Zimbabwean historian and politician, is often cited as the first African from Southern Rhodesia to earn a PhD. He obtained it from Indiana University in the United States in 1959.

“I don’t think they are ready for a black superstar!” 🗣️ A powerful response from @IanWright0 following Jude Bellingham’s recent criticism in the media. Watch the full conversation now on The Overlap YouTube channel.

If the BBC is biased to the left, then I’m a flagshagger. Spoiler alert it’s not, however, if we lose the BBC, we are fucked. It’s on the right wing kill list along with leaving the ECHR, destroying our rights and general authoritarianism. It needs an overhaul, not removal.

I was once arrested with Hon. Job Sikhala and all l can say is that he has endured more than most, all because of his undoubtable conviction to see a better Zimbabwe. For over three decades, he has walked in constant contact with danger, yet he continues to fight. His life has been one of torment and torture, spent in the cruel hands of a brutal regime in Harare. Out of more than 90 false charges brought against him, he was acquitted in all, never compensated, never offered even a word of apology. Instead, they mocked and vilified him, turned him into cartoons and jokes told by regime troglodytes whose future he has sacrificed everything to defend. After spending more than a year in prison, he could have chosen the easier path, to retreat into private life. But that is not the life of a revolutionary. That is not the life of a fighter. You fight, no matter the cost! They tormented him, his family, his spirit and when that was not enough, they pursued him even beyond our borders, into South Africa. Tonight, his future once again hangs in uncertainty. Of everything, Wiwa has been more than a comrade! We have laughed together. We have shared cells, buried comrades, canvassed for the movement, and celebrated small victories. We can only look ahead with the conviction that one day, the people of Zimbabwe shall indeed be free! In solidarity, Free Wiwa!

“We have to stop acting like getting 90% of votes while opposition is locked up and can’t get on TV is democracy.” - President Obama

Stay woke. Kemi Badenoch’s plan to deport legally settled people from UK retrospectively is targeted at Black & Brown people. Wickedness. Rinse and Repeat of what they did to the Windrush generation. The Tories and Labour want to Out-Reform Nigel Farage’s Reform party.