For Robyn Murray
As part of our YALI experience, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln provided each one of us with mentors based on our interests/work and I was blessed…
Sometimes the Dead Beat Dad Comes Back
So Boity popped off on the #UtatakhoRemix and I was reeling with emotion. I knew I had to write a whole blog post about absent…
Spell my Name, Spell my Name!
There are two things that I don’t respond to. The first one is texts in shorthand and the second one is my name spelt wrong….
Are the People Around You Ruining Your Life?
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been down with a bug. Yesterday it got so bad that I finally went to the clinic with…
What It’s Like Living in a Voodoo Home
It’s almost like waking up to find a 5 litre bottle of water and not knowing what it’s for. With the water shedding crisis you…
Demonising Virginity
There was a renowned pervert living in our neighborhood growing up. He was amazing with the mothers but a nuisance to the young girls. In…
If I Could Speak at Harare WordCamp 2019
Harare WordCamp is coming up soon and I am very excited about this one. I really wanted to go last year but we had a…
Breakfast Made Me Fat & Sluggish
I used to watch a soapie called Backstage when I was little. On Backstage, they had a morning radio program called Juice, and the opening…
The Fathers are Embarrassing Us
Bumped into a story online about how Diddy is dating his son’s ex-girlfriend. I thought what in the Kalanga tradition is this? We sat in…
Why They’re Sleeping With Your Husband
I watched a video of a wife beating up her husband’s mistress. I couldn’t make out some of the Shona but there was a hammer,…