Keeping Up With Our Leaders: Muammar Gaddafi

If anything, the story of Gaddafi compels us to ask a serious question: Is the West not a part of Africa's problem?

Keeping Up With Our Leaders: Idi Amin Dada

“His Excellency, President for life, Field Marshall Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the beast of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of The British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”

Keeping Up With Our Leaders : Mobutu Sese Seko.

Tadiwa's Weekly Read|Mobutu Sese Seko. "Corruption is as ubiquitous as air in Africa"

Dave Chappelle: The Man Who Turned Down $50million

Musk & Moccasin

Ask a youngster today who Dave Chappelle is and they would not have a clue (trust me, I tried). This is the comedian who at one point had the world under his feet to the extent that he was offered $50million for a third series of his hugely successful Chappelle Show which he bluntly turned down and went to Africa.

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After The Massacre

After the massacreWhen you fired bullets Like you were in some war in CongoYou fired more than just lead-core projectilesThrough the barrels of your munition Towards fleeing patriots, you impostor!You fired the harbored aggressionOf your unfulfilled dreams And the haunting hunger of your youth Of the infidelity and violence of your fatherAnd your step-father’s disease...

for women who are ‘difficult’ to love -Warsan Shire

you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your...

Letter to Samantha: Dambudzo Marechera

My job in chief Molokolo’s palace who all along thought I had been castrated was to shave the pubic hair of his wives at the palace

Love on Christmas Eve.

Sitting on the reed couch on his veranda, outside his farmhouse, he stared at her for minutes as she stood on the edge of a cliff looking down on the world beneath. He marveled at her sight. As the Nyanga wind blew her floral dress sideways, it left her features traced in a manner that...