Interweave your thoughts with mine,dreams and visions are combined,check it twice to redefine,to help our wishes align. Convinced that hopes are the same,knowing that I lost my aim,feeling just a bit of shame,loosing my voice, mind, and name. Love you more than I do me,only know the sights you see,your hands hold every last key,dictating […]
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- When the Sky Breaks Twice in Three Years
The soil has not yet forgiven the heat of 2024. In the dry lands of Buhera and the low-slung valleys of Matabeleland, the earth remembers how the maize stalks curled and browned before the cobs could form. It remembers the dust storms that stripped the topsoil away, and the cattle that dropped dead beside empty boreholes. That disaster was supposed to be the exception. Now … - Tendai Ruben Mbofana is Confusing Etymology for Ideology
Every language has a graveyard of words that used to mean something specific and now mean whatever the room decides they mean. My dear mentor Tendai has just built an entire column on the false idea that words are haunted forever by wherever they were born, and that failing to research a phrase’s family tree before you say it is some kind of moral failure. … - Brett Muvet and Hopewell Chin’ono Have Pure Delusions About How Governments In Exile Work
Okay I guess I am going to be that guy. We all know that Brett Holley, a Zimbabwean activist who calls himself Brett MuVet launched a political party/movement last week calling it Varanda VeZimbabwe. He dropped a launch video akin to what can be a manifesto. He discussed his aspirations and some other details of this new part. Most importantly, he pointed put his intention … - Who Is Brett Holley?: Inside Zimbabwe’s Newest and Whitest Political Experiment
A white man has just launched a political party in Zimbabwe, and he wants you to know it is not about him. That at least, is the pitch. Brett Holley is a Zimbabwean businessman and social media personality better known by his public persona, Brett “Muvet”. He has spent recent years building an online following as a political commentator. This past week he announced the … - Raising the Health Bar in Addis: Zimbabwe’s Tall Order for the Workforce Agenda
In Addis Ababa last week, health ministers from across the continent gathered under the vaulted diplomacy of the African Union’s home city for the seventy-sixth session of the World Health Organization’s Regional Committee for Africa, and the language coming out of the plenary halls was, as it usually is at these gatherings, expansive. Delegates from forty-seven member states spent the opening days endorsing the Africa … - “Be Fruitful and Multiply”: ZANU PF’s Bizarre War on Family Planning
Mabel Chinomona holds two titles that do not, on their face, obviously combine into a mandate on reproductive health. She is the president of Zimbabwe’s Senate and, separately, the Secretary for Women’s Affairs within the ruling ZANU PF party’s Women’s League, a wing of the party apparatus that traces its own history back to 1977. It was in the latter capacity, speaking at a Women’s …
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