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To anyone who reads this blog


Just in case anyone noticed I have been away for the past 3 weeks (Nigeria). Wish I had something to say about the trip but am too tired and there are too many stories to know where to begin and even after a mere 24 hours it all seems to incredibly far away in some [...] ....

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Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!


Today ntate Mandela is 63 years old, if you consider the fact that he spent 27 years in jail for wanting to live like a human, and wanting the same thing for his people. But he’s really 90 years old, if you consider the fact that he used those 27 years to change South Africa [...] ....

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Lesotho PM backs Mugabe


The Prime Minister of Lesotho, Pakalitha Mosisili, is said to have thrown his weight behind Robert Mugabe. For a while I had started whining about the lack of a position on the part of the Lesotho government. Now, here it is. I’m sorry that it doesn’t please me. Mr Mosisili “told foreign powers on Wednesday [...] ....

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Let’s kill the baby


A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe. Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from the thugs, convinced that they were about to murder her. [timesonline.co.uk] Technorati: [...] ....

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Speaking of Africa


Changeseeker, of Why Am I Not Surprised, says, “Yesterday, surfing the web for the first time since I moved last week, I decided to stalk my favorite website builder’s work and came across a call for applications for the Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program. The application period opened May 12th and closes July [...] ....

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For Charity and Francis Matyaka


Unable to move, she watch them drag him from the house into a donga and beat him, one goon opening his body to pour blood into the sand-coloured ditch, wine licking summer’s white cloth that cover the brains of boys and redden their eyes. Everyone try not to look but go their way into the dim June dusk to their families. Even God don’t interfere when [...] ....

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The Country That Never Was……Zimbabwe, ……………..wait before youâ


Excitement gripped me when I was able to go back across the border to visit my family in Zimbabwe. Pleased as I was, I tried to ignore all the media reports on the country’s disregard of acceptable and proper treatment of human beings. Before going home, I braced myself for whatever the hell was to [...] ....

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