The Herald (Harare)
21 June 2008
I suppose in this day and age of abrasive neo-liberalism, very few people care to read of, even know about a British leftist literary and cultural critic called Raymond Williams. Alongside other leftist scholars of his generation, Williams is credited with providing cradle to what we presently term "cultural studies", and whose most notable scholar arguably is Stuart Hall, presently with ...
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Glyph - I believe that the author in George Charamba aka Nathaniel Manheru; Sir Bob's mouthpiece
Thank you katz I believe you are right. I read some more of his A-level grade essays online and I have to agree with you. I'm sure he sounds very impressive to an honest and yet downtrodden manual labourer who doesn't know any better but he uses limited sources for his quotations. It's like he was studying 18th-20th century western authors then he dropped out of school.
I'm so glad I wasn't alone in seeing through the bluff, bravado and verbosity.
If I didn't know they weren't two different people I'd say that Lloyd Whitefield Butler Junior of the Zim Guardian is a dumbed-down version of the same person.
Where do I start? It is a crying shame that the name Thomas Paine was used in such a piece of pseudo intellectual bastardization. If I ever met the author of this verbose and pontificating tripe I'd give him a £1 so he could go and buy himself a clue.
I think thats about it, the rest isnt worth my time.