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Michelle D. Holmes, MD, DrPH is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Shona Dalal, PhD is a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...responsible for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against a racial minority, the Ndebele, who had sought autonomy from Mugabe’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The campaign was baptized “Gukurahundi,” which in the language of Mugabe’s racial majority, the Shona, means “cleansing rain.” Mugabe’s aggressive policies were not merely internal. Along with other African success stories like Angola and Libya, Zimbabwe sent troops to the Second Congo War in 1999, where Mugabe’s family had recently acquired mining contracts worth...
Jambanja is a word theShona people of Zimbabwe use to mean "to turn everything upside down, to cause violent confusion." Of late it has come to refer to the practice of running white Zimbabwean farmers, many of whom have been there for generations, off their land. Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful...
...course in gusting, flat-light conditions and as a result, personified the team?s performance on Wedensday. Alpine Canada?s chief athletic officer, Max Gartner, assessed it with one word: ?Bad.? Brydon was the top Canadian, finishing 20th, followed by Kelly VanderBeek of Chilliwack, B.C., in 24th, Shona Rubens (26th) of Canmore, Alberta and Sherry Lawrence (27th) of Calgary. The winner was Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister who just weeks away from retirement capped a remarkable career with her first Olympic gold medal. Dorfmeister won in one minute 56.49 seconds, 0.37 seconds clear of silver medalist Martina Schild of Switzerland. Anja Paerson...
...hour event titled “Tanaka,” which means beauty in Shona, marked the conclusion of “Africa Week...