30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 22

Mental health is 100% overlooked in my society. And I think its high time we focus on it more. We all have experienced it either on our own or through our loved ones. And because we have not paid attention, lives have been lost. It’s not good to be stressed and having to manage that stress on your own. Both you and I need someone to listen to us, cause we cannot live this life in isolation!

I read an article by Simplisio Muvunde in the Bulawayo 24 news. That I believe every Zimbabwean should read! Link>> https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-135534.html

 

 

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 21

1. Game Of Thrones is overrated! – Yes I said it! (you can come for me if you wanna😂)
2. Not all cute guys are players!
3. Not all black people can dance!
4. Iphone users, think they have made it in life.
5. There’s more to hashtag relationship goals than matching outfits😂
6. Marriage is overrated!
7. Not going out does not mean you are boring!
8. Dynasty is the best TV show on Netflix!
9. Everyone is a suspect!
10. Holiness is not hard!

 

Bonus unpopular opinion by Trevor Noah – “People think comedians spent all their time making jokes everywhere they go but the truth is they are very normal,calm and depressing people!”

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 20

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer J. Adler

1. How To Be A Bawse By Lilly Singh
2. Think By Bishop Tudor Bismark
3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
4. Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
5. Born a Crime By Trevor Noah – [I think this is my 4th time talking about Trevor. Can someone please just hook me up with this guy🙈]

 

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 19

Going to keep it a 💯 with you all, it`s high time we spoke about these issues. Thank you so much afrobloggers for giving us this topic. They are so many cultures and traditions  from the past that we just need to put an end to. The list is endless and I am just going to pinpoint some of them:

• Arranged Marriage – a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly by family members such as the parents. Freedom to chose whom  to love, please!
• Patriarchy – a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.  Gender balance, please!
• Traditional Male Circumcision – represents a rite of passage to manhood. However  it has an increased risk for complications that include sepsis, excessive bleeding, dehydration, renal failure and death. Save our brothers, please!
• All The Harmful Cultural Practices Towards The Girl Child – Refers to the Physical, Emotional, Sexual Abuse towards the girls. Protect the girl child, please!

 

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 18

I am pure Shona. Born and raised in the city were the pure culture is not actively practiced. Guess my parent were all about emancipation and didn`t care if we knew the culture or not.  However, the several times I have visited my grandparents in the rural area of Mutoko in the Mashonaland East Province, I have been able to learn some cultural norms that I  still find very funny.

1. Special Name & Dialect –  We are just not Shona people we are called the mabujas or matoko. We speak Shona but with a twist, its definitely hard to follow a conversation of deep mabujas.
2. Special Hand Greetings –  If only i could show you how hilarious these handshakes are. To make matter worse they are gender specific. Women do the makedekede handshake, whilst the men do the kanhondo handshake.
3. Special Visitors Welcome – kupa mvura so this is done specifically by the varooras (daughters-in-law) in the family. So when the visitors come, the varooras have to go and  fetch water and offer it to all the visitors to drink. But this is not the funny part. Wait for it😂, if the muroora is among the visitors, she still has to got and fetch water and offer it to whole dzinza including the host. WTH!
4. Special Goat Meat Distribution –  Believe or not, we kill a goat when they are specific celebrations(new baby born etc). But distribution of meat once cooked is age specific, the elders eat the nicer meat and the kids they eat zvinyenza, not so nicer meat but still good.
5. Special Mangoes –  we have the best tasty yummy mangoes in the whole country. Nothing beats a nyakakidi, bhurumango, nyakatendere (names of the different types of mangoes).  Last point was definitely not a culture norm. My bad!

PS: if I butchered the culture my apologies, I am a born free😂.

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 17

When I read the topic for today I was like nah fam! Wrong timing! They have asked me to market my country, like a tourism ambassador. But all I want to do is put up signs on all the country`s boarder posts that say:

                                    

 

However, I cannot be a tourist-blocker! My personal issues with my country should not affect people who may want to visit it. With that being said, I have found a perfect website for you, which is dedicated to educate and show the world how beautiful our country is. Please click the link below, you will thank me later.

[Zimbabwe A World Of Wonders > https://www.zimbabwetourism.net/ ]

 

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge: Day 16 COLORISM: WILL IT EVER END?

“Colorism is our secret shame and the pain it causes grows because we rarely talk about it” – Dre from Black-ish

In 2017 I posted an article titled: do you love your skin; melanin vs yellow-bone.  I mainly talked about the issue of colorism within the black community. How like racism we have made the light skin to be superior than the dark skin and how it has more privileges than the dark skin. We see this everywhere and just like racism the issue has not been solved. A few weeks back I was watching Blackish S5:E10 when they addressed this issue of colorism. What triggered the topic was the fact that Diane’s class photo didn’t come out right, she looked darker than the other kids and was made to stand at the back. This didn’t sit right with Bow who became so emotional saying she was going to speak to the principal and correct this and instead she opened a can of worms. They began to argue on issues I addressed in my article. Dre and his mum Ruby(the dark-skinned) vs Bow and Junior (the light-skinned). Junior was of the view that his dad was practicing colorism. He confronted him saying even though he liked light-skinned women he made fun of light man saying that they are soft, and are more on the feminine side. Apparently I have noticed that in the US actually everywhere in general, they say darker man are stronger, bold and all the masculinity adjectives you can think of😂. Why is that and Dre couldn’t answer his son. And on the women’s side the light skin is more beautiful than the dark skin. If you think I am wrong I am still trying to wrap around my head to the fact that people have been saying I hope your niece does not get your brother’s dark complexion. In as much they say it jokingly, that right there is low-key colorism. Worse they are telling it to dark-skinned person, me HELLUR? What am I suppose to make of that?

                                                                #me #what #shocked

But thanks to my stick and stones may break my bones mantra! I no longer allow it to affect me. Dre also mentioned that colorism began during the slave trade when the owners had separated the darker skinned from the light-skinned by making the dark-skinned work in the field and the light-skinned work in the house. OMG, this made more sense and it has stuck with us from generation to generation! A colleague the other day from nowhere asked me this question, am I becoming light? Who-aw, give me a break, colorism aint ending soon. I just told her, yeah you do and oh boy she was stocked😀. Come to think I forgot to ask her why she was excited about being light. Now I understand why nerd Diane said the bleaching business is a $10 Million dollar industry! People are paying a lot of money just to change their skin color without being educated on how dangerous bleaching is on a human being`s health!

Personally I embrace and love my dark skin too much. Yes there are times I felt inferior but now I am mature; I LOVE MY SKIN TOO MUCH AND WOULD NOT CHANGE IT FOR ANYTHING! And I hope everyone would do the same, God made you that way for a reason and nothing should limit you from doing anything you dream of, not even your skin color. We all need to love ourselves just the way we are and if we pass at that. Then we are able to love others no matter how they look like!

#LetsEndColorism❌ #advocacy
#GodBless

 

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge, Day 15

Take A Break 

“I am so nervous and I don’t even know if these old folks are going to listen to me!” This conversation is taking place in my head and I am  failing horribly to concentrate at what this Prime minister is saying. I mean his voice is just a sleeping tablet. If this is what they do every year for AU, then its definitely time change things. How I got to attend this year’s African Union is still not clear and worse-off I am going to be addressing all these heads of states and gorvement officials anytime from now.

“And that ladies and gentlemen is why we have decided to invite the younger generation. Help me welcome to the podium. Miss Nikki Feathers, well known best selling author,  blogger, motivational speaker and recently nominated by  Forbes Africa as one of the most influential African Woman under 30 ” said PM of Tunisia.

Reality struck as I listened to his introduction. I am here, this it, let me freak out these grannies and granpas. Confidently I stand up and begin to walk to the podium. I hear all my fellow peers cheering me on! Their hype, boost me up and I am so ready to nail this presentation!

“Good day to you all leaders in this auspicious room. I am so humbled to stand before you. I never dreamt of such a day as this.

On behalf of   all the millennials in this room. Thank you so much for allowing us to attend this year’s African Union. I am just going to make this fast and get straight to the point of my presentation. I understand you need to rest. Most of you have that tired face thing going on. I hear a few chuckles across the room mostly from my peers. But that doesn’t affect me. If I struck a nerve, well I am about to make it worse. The message I have been tasked to share with you all is that, you all need Take A Break and make room for our generation to take the button stick. We so appreciate the race you ran since colonialism to free us from slavery. You took back the land, you fought for us so that we would be empowered. However of late(meaning the past 35years) your good deeds have lost their meaning because you have become selfish. Selfish with power, freedom, opportunities, growth, exposure etc. You have forgotten about us, our life and future. You are caught up in so much greed that you are forgetting the  people you are  suppose to lead. You might think you know everything but you don’t. Can I ask you something, how many of you have social media handles that you manage own your own without PR officers. No hand goes up! Thank you very much for your honesty and there is nothing wrong. You are suppose to be playing with your grandbabies!  It is on these different platfplatforms that the world see the reality on the ground about our continent. Our prime time news covers nothing compared to what social media delivers. And you don’t know about this because you are so behind on everything and you are slowing us down. Yes you may call us the fast generation but have you taken time to understand us?

Ladies and gentlemen, your excellencies; you have run the race, you fought the good fight. But its time to let go! Pass the button stick on. Trust us to take up from were you left off and do our best to better our contries. We are the new wine. We are fresh, smart, energetic and ready to dominate as a generation. We will definitely need you as advisors and pray warriors as we run the race!

Its time for you to TAKE that Break for good. I open this platform for any questions…..

[So this is how I think, I would address the AU, lol. Your views and comments please!]

 

 

30 Day Winter Blog Challenge, Day 14

5 AFRICANS PAST & PRESENT WHO INSPIRE ME

• Bishop Tudor & Pastor Chichi 🇿🇼-  Humbled to serve under their ministry. Their way of life, teachings, books, sermons have impacted me so much. I am where I am today as a christian because of that.
• Trevor Noah🇿🇦 – Not talking about his looks today ladies. Even though I have not met Trevor yet, TV, Social Media, Magazines introduced me to him. Watched all the TV shows he was on, followed up on all his stand up comedy shows( I have a folder of all his stand-up shows). I am not only a fan but I am inspired by the originality in all his craft, he has stayed true to himself from day-one even with the quality of bag 💰he has now. He is bold, funny, humble, smart and confident and I love how he is on the Daily Show
• Nthabiseng Marie🇿🇦 – At some point in my life I wanted to be a flight attendant. I think I still do and in my quest to find out more about the job. I discovered her YouTube Channel which has been so helpful from day one. Though she is a former flight attendant she is now a full time travel vlogger. And if you know me, you know I love travelling. Following her journey across the world has inspired me so much. Icing on the cake I have gotten an opportunity to chat with her via Instagram. She is smart, cool, hella fun and is all about black girl magic and black girl empowerment. Hope to meet her one day.
• Strive Masiiwa 🇿🇼 – He is the 1st billionaire in Zim. He inspires me to secure the bag💰 period!

PS: Today I definitely didn’t have it all together. Busy,hectic day but still I managed to post something! I hope you kinda of  enjoyed the article!

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