Like many other arts enthusiasts, I was getting ready for HIFA, weeks even months in advance. Everyone knows this festival by name. It is an acronym standing for Harare International Festival of the Arts – although this definition is largely forgotten. Instead, punters and audiences now simply have their own definition: lots of shows =…
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Operation of Hope is back in the country for their 15th cleft lip surgical mission to Harare at Harare Central Hospital on May 10th. Operation of Hope, is a volunteer surgical team which restores the smiles of children who are affected by facial deformities such as cleft lip and palate for free. Cleft lip and cleft…
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I have often heard it said that Zimbabweans have no distinct features that make us stand out as a people among other Africans. No characteristic complexion, body shape or texture of hair. A pretty bland people, some people even opine. So you’d think that without a normative standard of beauty, our beauty pageantry would offer…
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Two major issues emerged from the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS 2015) held from 16-17 April in The Hague in the Netherlands. First, the fact that the world over, mass surveillance remains the elephant in the room. Second, the importance of multi-stakeholder participation in cyber security public policies has been severely under-estimated. Many African states…
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In a week in April where the world remembered the mass kidnapping of young girls in Nigeria, as the savagery that is ISIS and the murderous tendencies of US police simmered on in the background, we were hit with a side-blow. Xenophobia. I’m just going to think aloud on this one, as an outsider not…
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In October 2013, I experienced one of the most frightening phenomenons of my femininity. As usual, I started my period and was filled with the familiar symptoms of my monthly experience; nausea, lower abdominal cramps and dizziness. But what I did not know at the time was that this month marked a journey that would…
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‘Acacia’ is the debut novel of Zimbabwean writer, Tendai Machingaidze, which follows the life of Acacia, a young woman of mixed Zimbabwean and American heritage, named by her mother after the resilient tree known to thrive even in adversity. It is, largely, romantic fiction and follows the trials and tribulations of Acacia as she goes…
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Last Saturday, President Robert Mugabe nullified the announcement made by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa that civil servant’s bonuses were going to be suspended for 2015 and 2016 respectively. Mugabe’s statement came just five days after Chinamasa made the shocking announcement which he said was a result of budgetary constraints that his Ministry was facing. In his…
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What does your mother mean to you? What does it mean to remember your mother, to celebrate being a mother, or to live with not having a mother figure at all? Her Zimbabwe this year invites you to share stories about the value of mothers to our lives, and the lessons we learn from them…
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Sudden mood swings, an aching back, tender nipples, cramps and a bloated stomach. Each and every girl and woman out there knows that the next three to five (in some cases more) days will be horrid. Following a post by Rupi Kaur on Instagram in which she drove home the point of how Instagram was allowing…
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