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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday This technology was supposed to set us free of the poles and wires of old-time phones. And we don’t need Samuriwo the bus conductor anymore as a messenger
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday It’s a belief tied to prevailing superstitions, difficult social and economic situations, and natural disasters, lack of rain, personal rivalry or jealousies
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Sekai Nzenza At dawn the rooster from our village compound begins the first call. Others from nearby villages and across the river follow. Then there is a peaceful and almost serene silence. Up in the clear sky, Nyamatsatse – the morning star – shines so beautifully.
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday Operation musengabere and running marathons after girls are gone now. The Internet is here. But, there is plenty of room for a guy and a girl to meet naturally and fall in love the way it was meant to be
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday “My husband left me for the maid on 2 June 2006, between 8am and 10 am,” the woman having blonde tips added to her hair weave said. She was sitting right next to me and we both faced the same mirror because Maria was doing my hair. Maria is my hair dresser. “Mai […]
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday MANY years ago, when we lived in the village, we did not have enough clothes. One day my mother took two buckets of her newly harvested groundnuts to Mr Jack’s store. Mr Jack was the only white trader who owned many stores in the Tribal Trust Lands. People took their grain to […]
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MY cousin Piri is convinced that Christianity and too much prayer is killing joy, especially among urban women. She has come to this conclusion after attending one baby shower and two kitchen parties. According to Piri, there is more laughter at a funeral than at the pre-wedding
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday Each day, we rely on any knowledge coming from everywhere through various social media. At times, we are forced to select whether the medicines thrown in our faces outside supermarkets can do us good or do us harm.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday Like most dog names around, a dog’s name is not just a dog’s name. It serves to convey a message, usually in defiance or resistance to whatever conflict was happening in the family.
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday We have a community crisis at the nutrition garden right next to the village bush pump. Our vegetable garden is dry and empty because people are fighting over how and who should work in the community garden. About 50 or more people who form one group of the Simukai project this […]
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday When Ghana was playing against German in the 2014 World CUP finals game two, a week ago, this guy called Wanda declared that he was backing Germany. Everyone in Mutero bar, Gutu, was shocked, surprised, disappointed and confused by such an anti-Africanist
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday Every family has embarrassing secrets. Back in the village, we had many. But the most well-known secret was that of our uncle, Babamunini Nyika, who was an irresponsible young man who left the village and was not heard from for many years. Around the village, it was whispered that he was
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday “My sister, in Uganda they used to say, if you do not speak English, you are uneducated. Now you come here to Japan and you see the way the Japanese are doing business in their language. Shall we say, they are uneducated because most of them do not speak English?”
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday In one section of Chitungwiza, an outer suburb of Harare, some children under 10 years old walk to the “toilet” at the same time. “But that is not possible,” I tell my niece Shamiso and her husband Philemon.
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday “We do not have to work for food like we used to do in the old days any more. We have donors, my friend. They give us food,” says our village neighbour Jemba, rolling his cigarette with a piece from my newspaper.