EDITORIAL
Zimbabwean author Virginia Phiri with a
Malbereign Girls High School student Isabel Chifamba, one of the students who
read and received a book from International Board for Books For Young People
(IBBY) during an event to celebrate International Literacy Day at the Harare
City Library. Phiri is the current chairperson of IBBY. Read on and get linked
to the International Literacy Day commemoration hosted by the HCL last month.
We are
very grateful for all the feedback we are receiving regarding our newsletter.
As an organization that is keen to grow in knowledge, we receive every comment
or word of advice positively. The interim chair of the ZIBFA Executive Board,
Mr. Memory Chirere has announced to all stakeholders that the provincial Book
Fair in Masvingo which was scheduled for October 25 and 26 at the Masvingo
Civic Center Hall “can no longer proceed as scheduled.”
Chirere
said, “This is due to the fact that the 25th of October has just
been declared a public holiday in respect of the National Anti-Sanctions
programme. The ZIBF event has now been moved to a date to be announced in the
near future once our venue service provider has reverted to us.”
In this
newsletter, you will enjoy and take part in the awesome world of writers and
their writings. Thank you again.
ZIMLIBRARY PRESENTS STORY WRITING
COMPETITION
Theme:
Christmas at Home
Closing
date: 30th November 2019
Open to
all Zimbabweans
What
picture gets into your mind when you think of Christmas? What are some of your
best, sweetest memories of Christmas at home? How would you want to remember
Christmas?
The
Christmas at Home Story writing competitions encourages the writing of original
Zimbabwean narratives. In December, we will be publishing an anthology
celebrating our Christmas stories targeted for our young readers. The anthology
will include all the shortlisted stories in both the young adult and children
categories. Everyone who has a story in the anthology will receive a free copy
when it is published.
The
entries can be in English, Shona or Ndebele. Please submit your entry to
paruware@yahoo.co.uk. Entries should be emailed as pdf attachment. All entries
are judged anonymously in pdf attachments-this means your name can not appear
in the manuscript. Please make sure you include your full names, address, phone
number and email (if different), title of story and word count of your story in
the covering email.
We are
unable to accept previously published work, including that published through
other competitions. However, you are welcome to enter anything that you have
published yourself on a blog or website.
You can
enter in the following categories:
16-21 years: 1,500 - 2,000 words
12-15 years: 1,000 - 1,500 words
11
and under: up to 500 words
Until the lion starts telling his story, the
hunter will always be the hero. For questions and more details about the
competition please email bchituri@yahoo.com or aparakokwa@gmail.com
CHARLES MUNGOSHI JNR OPENS ONLINE SCHOOL
By Winzim Online Media
Charles Mungoshi Jnr
Rising
motivational speaker and author Charles Mungoshi Jnr, son of the late literary
guru Dr. Charles Mungoshi, has opened an online school called School of
Positivity that provides different courses in attaining a mentality of
positivity.
He
said the school is a vision he had been carrying for the past five years.
“As a motivational and inspirational speaker all I
have ever wanted was and is to impact people's lives in a positive way. My
personal mission is to express my thoughts on paper, in speech and by visual
means, to motivate, inspire, drive and uplift anyone and everyone so that they break
the mentality of limits. I have been inspired to be a speaker mostly because I
dislike seeing people struggle with things they can overcome from within. It
takes one's mind to change a destiny,” said Mungoshi Jnr.
His
late father’s words of wisdom still linger in his mind. The school, he said, is
inspired by the lesson his father taught him about the meaning of real success.
“My
father taught me that success is attaining inner peace and fulfillment and it
goes beyond acquiring wealth,” said the young author of five motivational
books.
The
School Of Positivity falls under Mungoshi Jnr’s broader vision of the Hub of
Positivists, which is an arm that focuses on teaching individuals to be
positive in life. His belief is that positivity starts from within and needs
time to nurture positively. With the school he wishes to gather like-minded
people to generate a forceful field of positivity to shift and effect
progressive change in the lives of individuals.
“Yes
a lot of people don't think being positive actually works because they want to
see the ‘now’ results but like everything else, the mentality of positivity
needs time to grow. People think that politics will have a direct impact on
their lives but that's not true; there is no way the change in politics will
directly impact change in you because progress is an inner thing,” he said.
Mungoshi
Jnr’s published books have impacted the lives of people of all ages. His
language is vivified by his style and profound motivational messages. He has
five books, namely, ‘Snippets of my Versatile
Mind’,’ Madhiri eCash’, ‘Falls For The
Top’,’ The Curse of Being Young and Successful’, ‘Inspirations From Lack On The
Road to Abundance’.
HARARE CITY LIBRARY CELEBRATES
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY
The
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Professor P Mavhima, speaking at
the commemoration of International Literacy Day held at the Harare City Library
last month. For more information and images about the event, please click the
following blog link: hararecitylibrary.blogspot.com
SUNRISE FOUNDER LAUNCHES BOOK IN CHINA
By Win Online Media
China-based
Chipo Munjeri, author of Surviving The
Agony of Shame
The
book was officially launched on October 1, 2019, during a dinner hosted by
Sunrise Foundation at the Punjabi Restaurant in Beijing, China, and also on
October 4 at the Fanta World Hotel in Shenyang. At both launches, the author
says she sold about 170 copies of the book altogether.
In
Surviving The Agony of Shame, she
tells her own story of how she had to live with shame for many years until she conquered
it through redemption in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The
simple yet powerful language of the book makes it accessible to readers at all
levels. It explains the causes, effects, and the solutions by drawing from the
author’s life experience. The opening chapter titled ‘A Personal Experience’
will pull readers into the devastating workings of shame while the subsequent
chapters dissect its specific characteristics such as ‘How People Subscribe To
Shame’, ‘Toxic Shame’, ‘Causes of Shame’, ‘Symptoms of Shame’, and some
practical tips on how to overcome shame.
In
the book, she tells of her touching story when she was a poor girl coming from
a ‘dysfunctional’ family with some members not believing anything good can come
out of her. The shame she suffered as a child due to a number of factors
haunted her at school and later at her workplace and in relationships. Yet one
day when she received the favor of God, everything changed and the light came
through.
Surviving The Agony of Shame is
surely a book for everyone although the author says she wrote it with women in
mind. Anyone can learn a lot from Munjeri’s experience and knowledge of shame,
for shame itself knows no age, race or gender.
Sunrise Foundation Africa aims to strengthen socio-economic support systems that reduce the number of school dropouts, promote access to livelihood skills, opportunities, improve self-esteem, care and love and to eliminate the vicious circle of poverty
The
following are images from the conference at which the book was also launched:
Tracyhappy happy to hold her
book
THE YOUTH PERSPECTIVE
With
Mimi
Machakaire
How To Overcome Writer’s Block
“Writing about a writer’s block is better than not
writing at all.” – Charles Bukowski
This is for all the established and aspiring writers
out there who have gone through this situation and who know how it feels all
too well. What is writer’s block first of all? The best definition given by wiki.com can is “a condition, primarily
associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new
work or experiences, a creative slowdown. The condition ranges in difficulty
from coming up with original ideas to being unable to produce creative work for
years.”
So have you ever had an article,
novel or short story, which was due but you couldn’t come up with any beginning
words for it? That moment when you sat there behind your laptop thinking about
a creative topic but nothing came to your mind?
You waited for hours for inspiration to finally hit you but still it
seemed like there was nothing left in this world which you could actually write
about.
Well, as a writer I have been in
this situation before and it is awful. You notice that time is running out for
the deadline and you have yet to produce a story or article!
When you finally do think of a topic
to use, it still feels like there is something missing. This is because you
have wasted so much time thinking about what you want to write, that you end up
just writing a fluff story that do not grab your interest from the beginning.
They say there are three common
causes to writers block:
1.
It’s
simply not the right time to write.
2.
You are
afraid
to put your ideas out there for everyone to see.
3.
You
feel like you need everything to be perfect.
Once you’ve accepted that this
indeed is the problem the next question is how do we fix it? To avoid going
through this struggle here are some valuable tips that can help you overcome
writers block:
1. Some
suggest going out for a walk. This clears the mind of any clutter that may be
distracting you and helps create space for new ideas.
2. Eliminate
all distractions from your work space.
3. Do
something to get your blood flowing such as exercises.
4. Believe
it or not but playing simple mundane games can actually help with creativity
(think of puzzles or chess.)
5. Change
your environment for example, if your TV is always on as you work, simply
switch it off and see how it feels.
6. Read a
book.
7. Listen
to music, nothing hard rock, heavy metal or even hip-hop, just some classical
or jazz to help you relax.
8. Make a
hot beverage of some kind, some examples can include; Tea’s, coffee’s or even
just a simple mug filled with warm water and an added lemon. Doing so will help
you relax as well.
9. Create
a routine. These days many writers have found that this process helps them find
their inspiration. Creating structure in one’s life helps other matters flow a
lot easier.
10. You can brainstorm in bullet points. Writing short
brief answers can help kick-start and expand ideas that can inspire a different
angle to your story.
11. Lastly, you can research on some inspiring quotes to
help get you started.
So next time you’re writing, whether
it’s for a school assignment or a work-related issue and you don’t know where
to start, don’t overthink it because that automatically delays your creative
process. Simply relax and remember the tips given above, maybe there’s
something you’re doing wrong and you don’t even know it yet. Once you have
finally come up with your ideas or brief notes, then you can comfortably ask
yourself what is next for you and your writing journey.
NGATINYOREI
Tinashe
Muchuri
Kuverenga Tichidanidzira
Kunyora
kunonakidza. Kana uchitanga kunyora zvinokurudzirwa kunyora uchiisa zvese,
kudurura moyo wako wese pabepa kana mu computer
usingasiyi kana chidiki zvacho. Izvi zvekururumisa zvese zvinobatsira kuti
semunyori usazosha mbariro dzemazwi dzekurukisa denga, kana nhungo dzemazwi
dzokururisa denga kana makavi emazwi ekusungisa denga kuti risimbe.
Asi zvino mukururumisa mazwi umu haasi ese mazwi
anomisa chinyogwa. Pakurura denga tinosarudza nhungo dzakasimba dzemuti
usingapfukutwi uye makavi nembariro zvemiti isingapfukutwi kuitira kuti
risapfukutwa kana kuparara nekukurumidza.
Kana pakunyora nyaya, nduri kana nganonyorwa, mazwi
anoda kupimiwa ukoshwa hwawo pakuvaka chinyorwa.
Muchikamu chino tinoda kukurukura nezvechidobi chekupeya
kana kupepeta chinyorwa chako semunyori usati wachisvitsa kumupepeti wako
chinonzi chekuverenga uchidanidzira. Ndichikurukura naIgnatius Mabasa rimwe
zuva akasimbisa nyaya iyi achiti inzira inoita kuti munyori agone kubvisa mazwi
asina sungawirirano nemamwe mumutsara, mazwi anogaka, uye anokanganisa
mutinhimira kana anobvisa chinyorwa chimiro chacho.
Chidobi ichi unokurudzirwa semunyori kuchishandisa
pakusunganidza chinyorwa chako kuti chive chinotapira chichiyevedza. Vanyori
vane mukurumbira vanochishandisa.
Pandaipepeta muunganidzwa wenyaya pfupi dzaPetina Gapah dziri mubhuku Rotten Row kubandiko rerunyoro
rweChiShona, takaita zuva rese tichiverenga tichidanidzira kuitira kuti mazwi
abude sekuda kwemunyori.
Imwe nguva semunyori unonzwa vanaChipangamazano
vachikurudzira vanyori vachangovamba rwendo rwekunyora kuti vapote
vachiverengerana zvinyorwa zvavo senzira yekubatsirana kuvandudza manyorero
avo. Kuverenga uchidanidzira imwe yenheyo yekunyora zvinyorwa zvakasimba uye
yekupepeta mazwi asingafambisi chinyorwa mberi.
Zvino paunenge uchiverenga uchidanidzira unofanira
kunge uri pasina ruzha irwo rungangokukonesa kunzwa mutinhimira wemazwi mumutsara. Naizvozvo zvitsaurire nzvimbo
inofefetera kure kana nevanhu. Izvi zvinokubatsira asivo zvino kana wave kuda
kubatsirana nevamwe chikotsvanai nevamwe vaviri vatatu mobatsirana
kuvandudzana. Neiyi nzira, chinyorwa chinozosvika kumupepeti chave nechimiro
chakaisvonaka.
Kune vamwe vanotya kubirwa mazano. Kune ava ndinoti
tosangana muchikamu chinotevera cheNgatinyoreyi.
BALOBI BESINDEBELE, ALILODWA!
Gogo
Nkala
Kambe ungumlobi osowadindisa ugwalo loba izingwalo, kumbe njalo ungumlobi wesiNdebele osacathulayo? Musa ukusalela emuva kumncintiswano wezokuloba kula amagagasi obulembu awakulezinsuku. Kuyisibusiso ukuba loGogo Barbara Nkala osilolayo esilolonga, esikhuthaza. Ungomunye wabalobi bezolo abaziwayo eZimbabwe, njalo ukhankasa efundisa njalo ekhuthaza kulamagagasi obulembu akulezinsuku, kubhulogi. Wenzela wena mlobi. Vakatshela ibhulogi yakhe uthole amasu okuloba inoveli loba inkondlo ngesiNdebele esicacileyo, imincintiswano, kunye lezindaba zokholo ezithinta kwamancane.
Thinta lapha okuthi:
MUTAMBA’S POETICAL INVENTION OF THE PEOPLE’S TRAIN
Book
Review by Beaven Tapureta
Shepherd Mutamba
What
Shepherd Mutamba has done in his latest offer titled Dobhadobha: A Book Without Margins (2019, MhotsiUruka) is to snatch
the bits of conversations from the people’s train (dobhadobha) and present them
on paper, this time painted in verse, philosophy and lively images.
Dobhadobha is
described as a collection of picture-poetry naturally because a picture
accompanies each poem and it is this fusion of words and images that carries
the essence of the whole collection. To fully retrieve meaning from a poem or
image, one has to understand the nexus between both. However, multiple meanings
come with the complexity of such a marriage of words and images!
The
images seem to provide the ‘landscape’, which is obviously Zimbabwean/African,
while the poems either distort or re-arrange it. As a photographer, Mutamba
says his poetry was ‘inspired by pictures of everyday life surrounding me’.
I have
read Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s The Fifty
Rand Note, a collection of short stories, and her use of public transport
as a setting is much similar to Dobhadobha.
While Ngwenya in some of her stories, like in ‘A Dollar For Two’, uses the
kombi, Mutamba chose the train to capture voices of a group of people moving
from one place to another. As is usual in Zimbabwe, you are likely to hear
pertinent issues bedeviling the motherland being discussed in these kombis or
trains.
Be that
as it may, Mutamba’s dobhadobha is a
psychological train. Love, death, suffering, art, the media, leadership and
various other themes are profoundly and fearlessly dealt with in the
collection. We hear the voices of a bitter laborer, the sex-hungry lover,
voices of advice, the disappointed voter, and many others as you would expect
in ‘a book without margins’. Apart from the short poems, there are also very philosophical
one-sentence sayings. Are these sayings poems?
For
instance, above the image of a bee exploring a beautiful flower, Mutamba
philosophizes about ambition:
‘No distance unconquerable when a bee smells
a flower.’
And
this is titled ‘When A Bee Smells A flower’.
As
politics, the media and the arts become integral to our everyday life,
Mutamba’s courage is in capturing what things ought to be like. He spews the
anger back at the reader, challenging him/her to think again. The poem ‘The
Morning Paper’ blasts the disregard of professionalism or ethics in today’s
journalism and the persona rather longs for
‘…the return of the newsman of
old
One committed to inform, not to
offend the reader…’
Politics
is handled in various poems also but as regards the arts, Mutamba criticizes
mediocrity and/or unimaginativeness. In the poem ‘She’s My Mother’ one is
really touched and drawn into deep thinking about certain pieces of art,
particularly sculpture, which we see on display every day and never give a
thought about their offenses on gender. The image of a naked woman in a sexual
position accompanying this poem exemplifies the absurd art and Mutamba’s voice
cries:
‘Sculptor, I’m saying your
subject is my mother
What’s art when art violates
the dignity of
women?
Distorting my mother’s values
and moral standing
Sculptor, taking my mother for
a bitch on heat
Sculptor, I said your subject
is my mother
Why must art insult when art
must heal?’
Words
like ‘fart’, ‘fuck’, and ‘shit’, are often synonymous with the bitter,
‘apoplectic’ writers like the late literary hero Dambudzo Marechera and others.
Bulawayo-based poet Philani Nyoni in his poetry collection Philtrum (2018, second edition) uses the same language in some
poems in which the persona expresses an ‘anti-authority’ anger. When Mutamba
uses them too, he depicts extreme or intense emotion which is no longer suppressible
but needs venting out like in his poem ‘This House Is Stinking Shit’. However,
this is not to say the use of such words in literature is good or bad but once
published, the language becomes subject to different criticisms.
Two of
the poems in this collection first appeared in the Prize Africa magazine in
1981/2, meaning that Mutamba had all along been subduing a talent while he
pursued his other passions such as journalism and photography.
And when
he published first and second editions of the late celebrated musician Dr.
Oliver Mtukudzi’s biography Tuku
Backstage in 2015 and 2018, readers might have thought it was simply an
obvious publication from one who handled Dr. Mtukudzi’s public relations. Well,
Dobhadobha is here to redeem you from
that illusion. Mutamba is proving to be a complete writer, one well-versed in a
number of genres, though again he refuses the title writer, rather preferring to be called a shepherd because, as he says in his poem ‘Don’t Call Me A Writer,
Call Me A Shepherd’:
‘Writing shapes me into a good
shepherd
Not just another writer writing
writings…’
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN ZIMBABWE
With
Aleck Kaposa
Beloved children,
how are you? I hope you are enjoying school. I am sure you have heard about the
miraculous Great Zimbabwe. One day you will know more about the history of this
amazing place in Masvingo. The history of this place remains somehow mystical
but according to what we already know, the word madzimbabwe or zimbabwe is
derived from Shona phrases used freely to mean either ‘stone houses’ or ‘venerated
houses’. Now I am going to tell you an exciting story which my grandfather told
me when I was your age.
How The
Madzimbabwe Came To Build Houses Of Stone
Many,
many years ago the people of Madzimbabwe lived peacefully and happily in their
blessed land of red soils and rich pastures. They lived in thatched huts made
of mud and poles. They grew healthy crops and kept beautiful herds of cattle
that gave them a lot of milk, meat and hides.
One
day a fierce wind blew and with it came a fire with huge, orange flames that
danced wildly in the wind. The fire was uncontrollable. The king ordered the
people to flee to the mountains. The fire burnt their homes, crops and some
cattle.
“Run
for your lives to the mountains,” the king shouted. “Everyone run!”
The
king’s messengers beat drums and blew trumpets on top of hills and mountains to
warn people about the fire. The people rushed outside their huts, grabbed their
babies, clay pots and gourds of drinking water and fled to the mountains. By
then clouds of smoke that billowed into the sky had completely covered the
whole sun. Even there, far, far away
from their villages, the people could feel the strong heat from the fire. When the fire died many hours later, the king
and his people climbed down the mountains, hungry, thirsty and weak. They slept
in the open on empty stomachs. On the following day, they started building
their homes and kraals again. Rebuilding
the villages and kraals was hard and painful but after several months, they had
fully recovered and started living happily again.
Then one day, after long months of hot and dry
days, there appeared in the sky some strange birds. The birds soon covered the
sun. The children thought the birds were rain clouds and ran about singing
joyfully:
Mvura naya naya
Tidye mupunga
Mvura naya naya
Tidye mupunga
The
elders of Madzimbabwe told the children that the birds were not rain clouds.
They told the children that the birds flying in the sky were known as
Shuramurove.
“When
the Shuramurove birds appear,” the elders said, “They foretell that a storm is
coming, a storm which is full of strong winds and often heavy rain.”
Indeed
a storm came. Heavy winds blew roofs off the huts and heavy rains fell. Soon
the water level started rising. People screamed and cried as they ran to the
mountains again, blinded by the large raindrops that fell on the ground like
spears. The strong wind continued blowing. Thunder boomed and lightning struck
every now and again. Many cattle, chickens,
goats and some people drowned. All the huts in the villages were destroyed by
the water, just like in the fire. The
water on the ground was almost freezing. That night the people of Madzimbabwe
slept in the bushes by the mountainsides. On the following day, the sun shone
brightly and brought warmth. The king
gathered all the people and thus spoke.
“Weep
not my people,” the king said in a voice that rumbled down the mountainside
like thunder. “Wipe away the tears and be ready to build again. We will be
strong and build again. You all know about that fire that destroyed everything.
After we worked hard to rebuild, then came this storm which has destroyed
everything again. We will build again but this time, with stones. We will build
houses of stone which fire cannot burn. We will build walls that the strongest
storm or cyclone cannot bring down. Even enemy spears will not be able to
penetrate the walls. Our kingdom will be known as the Madzimbabwe or houses of
stone.”
And
so the people started building houses of stone but with no mortar.
MEET
THE AUTHOR OF CACTUS CREED
Cover of Cactus Creed
Winzim Online recently caught up with Tafadzwa Ruwambara, author of Cactus Creed
(2019, Esteem Communications, Harare) and below are snippets from the
interview:
Tafadzwa R: My name is
Tafadzwa Ruwambara. I hail from Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. I was
born on the 10th of November 1987. I'm the last born in a family of 4. I enjoy
outdoor leisure, writing, among other things.
Win Online: Can you
tell us more about Cactus Creed?
Win Online: How did
you discover the writing passion in you?
Tafadzwa R: I was a
form three student in Mrewa. We would go for sports as a school, and I was a
participant in those sporting activities but would find time to write about
events and present the same at assemblies. What was funny was I was like the
self-imposed journalist of the school. I don't remember anyone giving me that
responsibility. I simply did it on my own and my teachers accepted it and
enjoyed it.
Win Online: Who are
your favourite writers, local or abroad?
Tafadzwa R: Honestly
I don't have a favorite writer either here in Zimbabwe or abroad. I respect
many writers here and outside, and I read many books even, as I did Literature
in English at A level but I never regarded nor do I regard anyone as a
favorite.
Win Online: As a
writer, what is your vision?
Tafadzwa R: My
ultimate vision is to transform societies and nations through writing. I desire
to see people doing their best and realizing their dreams for this life and for
the one to come. So I want to write as many books for that dream to be a
reality.
Win Online: And
finally, your advice to fellow writers?
Tafadzwa R: My advice
is if God gave you a gift to write, to inspire people, and use it or else
you'll lose it. And as you endeavor and make giant steps to fulfill this dream,
you'll face opposition but remain committed and true to your cause.
Win Online: Thank you
Tafadzwa.
Tafadzwa R: Welcome.
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By
Shamuyarira Osmond
All day long
Catch-as-catch-can
Toiling to make ends meet
Tired to the bone,
Feigned looks of success
Written on thy sweaty face
Wearily staggering towards home,
To my comforter
So soft it takes me to Dreamland,
Wiping my anguish away
Absorbing tears of joy and grief
Soothing reddened cheeks
Massaging out the harshness of the world
Forcing a kiddie smile on a chapped face
Throughout such frightening shadow of death,
The dark night
Breaking darkness is dawn
Slumber is sadly hanging over.
A must-time to leave comfort zone
Yet my comforter silently craves for me
Clock tic,
With a grieving heart we divorce
Not forever
But for a numerable seconds
Off I go with rekindled strength
Thanks to my comforter
My comforter, my pillow
Color Me Freedom
By
Beaven Tapureta
color me freedom
spare me the absurdity
color me love
writers hardly forget
color me color me
good music and not
the discord of your disco
i am no good at fiasco
Ibva Kumahombekombe
Na
Tamutswa Muzana Kundidzora
Vanohuda hupenyu vanotuhwinha kumahombekombe,
Kutya kuti vangapapaurwa namakarwe,
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Kouya vana mushaya matyira,
Vasina nezano asi vanotambira kunonyudza,
Kushambira havagoni asi kukara hokota,
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Ane mukati makanunira,
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Vanodzokorora zvimwezvo kusvika vazadza nhava,
Avo meso ndivana mushaya chapotswa,
Pane mvuu vanoisa meso,
Naipo pane matombo vanoisa meso,
Nzira dzose dzemumvura dzizere mundangariro dzavo,
Dzavo mhuri hadzipangi muto,
Vavo vana havateyedzi mana kutsvaka kusvusvura
Street Kids
By
Beaven Tapureta
we used to be the kids
growing in the dusty streets of home
now we are the street kids in their City
when they hurl stones at we don't know who
we also hurl stones at we don't know who
we run when they run
that they may remember us
when they are well-fed…
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