Blessing’s HIFA Diary - Day 6, Easy like a Sunday
2 May, Sunday
AON Zimbabwe
“What we teach, we will reap, from men. What we deny, we will see, from men.” - Lebo Mashile, poet.
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A good day. Slow and easy-going just like Sunday should be. I’m sure none of us were expecting Salif Keita to attend the morning press conference, freshly arrived in Zimbabwe and experiencing luggage issues but he was there and it was wonderful to have him in our midst. He has a presence that is real and awe-inspiring. He appears to be one of those people who has no doubts about his reason for being on this good earth.
It was kind of bitter-sweet, being the last day. On one hand I am glad to be getting back to the slower pace of my everyday life and on the other I shall miss the bustle and activities and spending whole days wandering around discovering friends old and new. Back to the other hand though, I shall not miss the passive smoking I did all week. My room in the mornings always smelt as if I had been chain-smoking from sun-up to sun-down. Read more
Blessing’s HIFA Diary - Day 4, Bedridden spirit, poetry & ZESA
30 April Friday
Lion Lager day
“Life is just a shelter for the soul.” – Phillippa Yaa de Villiers - poet (HIFA 2010)
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Today my body came to HIFA but my spirit stayed in bed. It caught up with me much later on, just before the Hot House Flowers show in the evening but by that time I could only persuade my body to stay only a little bit longer.
My day started off with Only Hope, a play at the Standard Theatre, which ironically enough began with a funeral scene, just like Hamlet did, in the same theatre two days ago. The dirge they sang was exactly the same as in Hamlet, but without the searing quality of the delivery, however, it fitted the scene. Deja-vu? I sat too close to the front and felt far too involved in the whole enterprise. I always prefer to be a little further away so as not to feel too captive an audience. However, there was some really good acting here. Read more
On The Zimbo Jam- Blame it On Us - By The ZimSwag BoyzIt's great that ZimSwag have apologised for the chaos at the stadium on Saturday. However, being an entertainment site, we were thinking that it would have been so much better if they were to release a musical version of that apology. We reckon it would sound very much like Akon's hit song Blame it On Me and would go something like this...
- Akon Show Organisers Issue ApologyZimSwag, the organisers of the Akon-Sean Paul Zimbabwe concert, have issued an apology for the chaos that reigned on the evening of the show and spoilt the experience for many who attended the event. "... we admit that there were a number of blunders on our side," says their statement in part.
- Optic Fibre Damage Causes Internet Downtime in ZimbabweInternet Service Providers in Zimbabwe are sending out notices to their customers about a major outage that has caused major Internet downtime in Zimbabwe and led to even slower connections than we are used to.
- Blame it On Us - By The ZimSwag Boyz