by Takudzwanashe Ndangana | Jan 24, 2022 | Culture, Education, Thoughts & Reflections
“Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Have you ever listened to a song and felt like the artist had you in my mind when he or she penned it down? Sometimes we find...
by Faith Mangwanya | Aug 4, 2021 | Current Affairs, Empowerment
I grew up in a cosmopolitan suburb in the southern parts of Johannesburg. In the early 2000s, the community was an eclectic mix of white Afrikaners, a few Indians who owned the local grocer, blacks and coloureds who had worked their way out of the townships, and a...
by Faith Mangwanya | Nov 2, 2020 | Business, Development, Empowerment, Entreprise, Thoughts & Reflections
I remember when I first started my postgraduate studies in nanomaterials, many people asked me how that would be applicable in Africa let alone Zimbabwe. My academic interests were too niche and futuristic that they seemed to be not applicable anywhere on the African...
by Faith Mangwanya | Sep 15, 2020 | Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections
The African people have always shared a deep respect for their environment. Our culture embodied our love affair with our environment and for centuries we co-existed in chaotic harmony with the great gorillas of the Virunga and majestic elephants of the Okavango...
by Teakisi | Jul 1, 2019 | Culture, Current Affairs, Development, Education, Empowerment
By Eunice Tossy I went on a mission trip to Arua in northern Uganda, and I got to see the terror and harm that war brings to us. I also got to see that when everything goes wrong in an African society, a woman is left to clean up, show up and and also suffer. Even...
