DEAR DIARY: The journey from poverty to hope

In many places across the African continent, women are not able to own domestic animals since they do not have the right. This means everything that the family owned belonged to the man whether the wife contributed in its purchase or not

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Feb

DEAR DIARY: It’s not goodbye but see you later

>Leaving on a Jet plane is a song by John Denver, but most people will identify it with its first line All my bags are packed I’m ready to go. My mother loved this song and she hummed it every morning under the bougainvillaea tree as she took a nap. Sooner or later her demise hit us like thunder on a sunny day.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Dec

DEAR DIARY: They are girls not brides

I was following the First Ladies Summit on child marriage which recently took place in Lusaka closely since I had received an invitation to attend the same but could not make it due to unavoidable circumstances.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Jan

DEAR DIARY: Good looks will get you votes

>Women vote for good looking men. Don’t we? Before you protest, hold it, hold it ladies… We don’t have to look very far to test the theory. Our dear President is a good example. If you voted for JK, how many of you would say that his looks didn’t cross your mind at all when you were voting? Be truthful now.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Feb

DEAR DIARY: Be encouraged to rise again

>A friend of mine wrote something on her Facebook page that put me on a reflection-mode. Her last year was a tough one and she had a sort of ‘theme’ to help her go through it.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Aug

DEAR DIARY: Why would anyone kill a child?

It is hard to imagine that someone can harm their own child, leave alone a baby. It is human instinct to want and protect life instead of destroying it, especially that of a child. But things happen and sometimes, they happen to you.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

DEAR DIARY: Christmas is about reaching out

>It is Christmas next week. Yaaaay. It has actually been Christmas the whole month. I was communicating with a friend who is in the US, and he would end by saying ‘Merry Christmas’.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

DEAR DIARY: The future is not as I envisioned

>It is amazing that we only have 32 days to 2015. I often smile to the thought that I am in the future. 2015 is a big year, no doubt. It is the year that governments have placed deadlines to different development goals. It is the year that we will have our general election; it is a year of many changes indeed. Look at yourself; this is how the future looks like.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Apr

DEAR DIARY: Is it diversity, or self-expression?

>I added a weave on my head last week, and it always amazes me how one small change on your body can make a huge difference on your looks – negative or positive. I was particularly intrigued about what the salonist had to say about the new weave in town.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 May

DEAR DIARY: Tuti, until we meet again

>Tutindaga Anania Mwambungu was my friend. We weren’t the kind that spent all weekends together, or chat over the phone every now and then. We only shared brief moments when she was alive.

 

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