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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday Putting aside genetics, maybe winning is based on the social environment, opportunity, determination, resources and talent. More importantly, winning has a better chance if we learn to dispel the myths and stereotypes about ourselves as Africans.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday A WOMAN in our village wants a gupuro from her husband because he has been away for five years. Her name is Mai Jasi. She says she wants to be free to meet other men before she gets too old. This is not a secret because Mai Jasi brought her grievance […]
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday One time, during my first visit to England, I was invited to the Tate Gallery by an English family hosting me. It was my first visit to England. The Tate is a very old British gallery full of international modern and contemporary art. My hosts said I should come along […]
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday John Marange’s followers were mainly the downtrodden poor peasants, suffering from the early problems of racism, chibaro or forced labour and land dispossession.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday In the past, this Shona cultural practice of teaching responsible sexual knowledge by brother-in-law was perfectly fine. But some men abused their role of passing such knowledge. Instead of maintaining physical distance, these men crossed the boundaries and ended up in bed with the young sister or niece-in-law.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday “I MUST create time to myself,” said my cousin Reuben, the one who is back home after more than 10 years living in the Diaspora. Reuben looked really tired and unshaved. The night before, he had slept at our Uncle Babamunini Zekia’s two-roomed house in Highfield. It was not Reuben’s intention […]
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday Several acts were then passed with the main purpose of limiting the education of Africans. At that time, the European settlers also believed that contact with Africans was to be carefully controlled, especially in education.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday It is almost midnight and the full moon rises over the hill. A big woman steps on to the stage with a microphone. Then she raises her voice and sings: “Tawanirwa nyasha!” Many voices join in. I am sitting on the ground near the stage among uniformed Anglican women.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday There are some nursery rhymes that cannot be translated. Doing so would spoil the meaning of the rhyme and dilute the knowledge within it.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday “Ini handisi donor, mazvinzwa?” declared my cousin Reuben, standing in the middle of the homestead. By this, he meant, I am not a donor. This sudden outburst had been prompted by the number of people, some of them our close relatives, who were asking Reuben for money. Their needs for cash […]
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday Our post-independence generation has forgotten how to teach children the creativity that we learnt when we were growing up. Change and technology are good, but they have killed the creativity in our minds and made our hands idle.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday When we were growing up in the village, long before independence, we lied a lot. My grandmother, Mbuya VaMandirowesa, my mother, the neighbours and some relatives told us to lie because it was the “normal” way to protect ourselves in some situations.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday When the liberation war came, we were sent to live with my brother Charles in Salisbury. My sisters, Charity, Paida and I learnt how to wash our bodies in a bath tub for the first time, how to use a toilet that flushes and how to use a one plate electric […]
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday “Tora hako. Usanyare.” “Help yourself. Do not be shy.” This is the sign at our village clinic, placed next to the box of condoms on the veranda where everyone can see. I saw the sign on Saturday when I took Mbuya Gambiza, my mother’s best friend and the midwife who
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday