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Blessing Musariri Shelling the Nuts I ONCE read a story that was originally written as a true account which was later disproved as a hoax and ultimately sold as fiction instead of the non-fiction it had initially given itself to be. This story was about a woman who went and spent some months with an aboriginal […]
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Blessing Musariri Shelling the Nuts There was a time when a man’s word was his honour. When a handshake was an unassailable agreement. Now everything is fluid and subject to disingenuous verbal comebacks when one party has a change of heart. As a freelance consultant, the struggle is all too real and days like the […]
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Blessing Musariri Shelling the Nuts Act one. Meet Liza and Henry. They live a life in which a bucket can feature prominently at some point during their day. There’s a hole in the bucket and this is a problem. Henry tells Lisa, who rightly tells him to fix it. Henry obviously has trouble thinking for […]
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts Li Jih-hua was a great Chinese painter and connoisseur. He told the story when Meng Chang (AD 919-965) obtained a copy of the drawing of Chung Kuei (subduer of evil spirits) done by Wu Taotse (eightth century), he asked Huang Chuan (a famous painter) to make a change in it. In […]
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling the Nuts When I was a young man, my grandfather taught me how to fish such that by the age of five, I had become very skilled at using a fishing rod. Although I continued fishing several years later, there is a legendary fish that I really wanted to catch, but never did.
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Ignatius T. Mabasa Shelling The Nuts ALMOST a year after making a call for Shona short stories to be published in an anthology by Bhabhu Books, the book is now going to print. As a writer and small projects publisher, I was telling a writer friend that Zimbabwe risks contributing to the death of her literature by […]
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts Once upon a time, a hungry jackal searching for food thought he had found himself lunch when actually he had caught his own tail. Without wasting time, the jackal sat down to enjoy the meal. He was eating and savouring his meal, when he suddenly realised that he had eaten […]
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts There are ties that bind us, that make us who we are as Africans. We share our joy with neighbours and friends when a child is born. People may not come bearing gifts in their hands, but their presence and words are what matters most. Some will sing, ululate, dance, joke and pray […]
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts The Shona will tell you that another person’s wife is your mother-in-law and your handshakes should never go beyond the shoulder, but the city will tell you that it only works kumusha.
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling the Nuts Traditionally, even the poor also married, but it was not all about lots and lots of money and cattle. People valued the formation of a new relationship. This is why it was so important for the boy and girl to know as much as possible about each other’s family, their […]
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts A FEW years ago I attended an Alpha Course for trainers. Alpha is a course that tells people about Jesus and Christianity. One of the course topics we did was titled, “Why and How do I pray?”
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling the Nuts Once upon a time, our communities had eyes that saw things on behalf of everybody living in them. These same communities had values that promoted love, peace and unity just as God intended man to live.
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts THIS is an anticlimax of monumental proportions Chenjerai Hove, mukoma wangu! Kings also sleep, but they must sleep with dignity. I got the news of your death on Sunday July 12 in the evening from Memory Chirere who had heard about it from your buddy Chirikure Chirikure. The message just
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts Keeping a dog is like looking after a child. You have to take care of your dog’s welfare, training, talking, walking and bathing it. A well-trained dog will not bite people or make a mess in the house. It will know how to behave.
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Ignatius Mabasa Shelling The Nuts I WAS at a funeral recently when one woman arrived to commiserate. When she arrived, all the people who were sitting outside the house suddenly went quiet. This woman had a very low-cut blouse, which made her chest seductively grin and greet everybody. I was seated with a group of men, […]
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