Memory and local knowledge are our weapons

It has been a month of funerals, of those well-known and of those who never warranted a mention in a newspaper.

Edgar “Two Boy” Tekere, Hilton Mambo and Evans Ndebele were the most prominent amongst those that have recently departed.

Among the uncelebrated was my dear Sekuru Thomas who lived in a place in Rusape that we have always called Pifeni and yet the missionaries would have preferred us to call it by the name they gave and we corrupted: Epiphany.

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