Chimamanda Adichie now a MacArthur Fellow
Filed under: Books & literature, I was just thinking
Chimamanda Adichie is one of the recipients of the 2008 MacArthur Fellowship, which comes with a generous stipend of USD 500 000.00. The fellowship “ awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.”
Another great day for African literature. Congratulations, Chimamanda!
For more information click here and here.
It depends on whose hands it is in
Filed under: Inspire & motivate, Spirituality for such a time
This reflection has become a revelation which has crowned the importance of activities, talents and above all messages to all who see the glory and the power of God manifested in people’s lives. Let me give an example: a tennis racket in my hands may not mean much, but the same tennis racket in Venus William’s hand is worth a Wimbledon championship, and even a world championship. Read more
A woman in rebirth
In the beginning is a word, and the word becomes a voice shut up in her bones; in a whisper, it weaves itself into her loins telling her to burst forth like a bud from her self-made cocoon.
She hurries away from the word wearing a resolve to find her lost seed. But her heart thickens within cobwebs hanging inside the crevices of her being. The voice groans inside her. With her left toe, she scribbles a note on the ground for her grandmother, and another for herself, and then she drags her feet, shoulders clumped as if she is carrying a heavy load. Read more
Anesu Chiwura is Miss Zim UK 2008
Above contestants from Miss Zim UK. Seventeen year old Anesu Chiwura (right) won the pageant which was held in Leicster on Saturday (27th September 2008).
Anesu is a Travel and Tourism student at a college in Surrey. Read more
Why this lady still calls Zimbabwe home
Filed under: Notes from the Diaspora, Zimbabwean diaries
The article by gogo entitled “I want to go home” struck a chord in me. It seems that it’s a shared sentiment by millions of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora and at home. I came across this article by Kate Chambers which resonates with the same feelings for the mother country.
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Christian Science Monitor- The soldier sauntered out from behind the barrier, fiddling with a rifle slung across his chest. We had reached Zimbabwe’s Birchenough Bridge, a dusty settlement five hours from the South African border. The soldier peered into the car window. He was young, in his early 20s, I’d guess. “Why didn’t you stop?” he asked. Not for the first time, I wondered whether we were right to return. Read more
The Zezuru: mixing religion and business
By Sylvester Wapitso for Mmegi
Most customers prefer to buy on credit. Some pay. Others run away before settling the outstanding debt. Nonetheless, we survive.
FRANCISTOWN: The ting-ting-ting metallic taps could be heard a few metres from the household. Instantly, one is welcomed into the home of tinsmiths.
Pieces of metal sheets are scattered all over. Gracious Tatangira’s head is clean-shaven and he sports a beard. Read more
