Should abortion be legalised? This question is always sure to spark a heated argument in contemporary Zimbabwe. However, I think the answer to this question is a simple and unequivocal yes. As a question of legality and...
(The second installment of a two part series - Read Part 1 - My journey to the Motherland - Perception)
Simon’s uncle was the character that brought me on a tour around his rural home; I asked...
During three months this year, I stayed in the village of Kufunda, southeast of Harare. Kufunda is just 35 minutes by car from the city, or 25 minutes by kombi and then a walk of 8 kilometres....
(The first installment of a two part series - Read Part 2 - My journey to the Motherland - Reality)
I met my husband initially, almost eleven years ago. It wasn’t until two years later...
I have watched the rain flow fervently; embroiling itself in such filth, I have been afraid to clean the objects it soiled. Yet that same rain has fallen on dusty leaves and cleansed the air we breathe. The...
Amazing discoveryIn 2000, my five year old son joined pre-unit, his teacher happened to be his mother. He was a fine and brilliant looking boy who could not meet the academic expectation. Something was not right, he...
One seminar on contemporary health studies will always stand out during my university course, the day we discussed about HIV/AIDS, the elephant in the room. That cold October afternoon we did not just talk about the elephant...
I was lucky I suppose, that I discovered it at all. Many foreigners come to Afrika and never really get to hear what locals think of them and their time spent on the continent. And many foreigners...
As the day of reckoning edges closer to me, I become more and more disillusioned about my generation and other contemporaries. Our forefathers and their forbears had enough courage for millennia to tackle bread and butter issues...
In Ankore, women/ mothers are a great treasure. A home / house without a woman/ wife is a shame. Bany’ankore fear being ashamed hence the ankole saying that “I rather die instead of being ashamed.”It is prestigious...
