1. The humbling thing about leaving ZImbabwe, is that you move from having Elders who have invented nothing and are not globally relevant but want you to lick their entire bodies to talking to the pioneers of your field who insist that you call them with their first names😩
2. Imagine, talking the person who literally made the most important findings in your field and they want nothing from you apart from giving you all the skills and attention to make you great! You are not seen as competition but as a branch on a big tree, to bear more fruit.
3. I once spoke to this other big person, they have more than 300 published papers, and they thought that I was a great fit for one of the projects they were doing. Never did they try to remind me how big they were, it was as if I was the big person 🤣...the issue was about me!
4. I hope one day our big men and women calm down and see that their legacy is in how many they help to crossover as opposed to how many they victimize and embarass. The young ones don't exist to stroke the egos of the old, their are our branches, producing fruit for the next one

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6 Jan
1. My greatest fear, is that we have been under the rulership of a single party that is inept, corrupt and cruel. It is like being born during a war, you grow up knowing nothing else but war. The scarcity mindset sets in and becomes default for a generation.
2. A wile generation, does. not organically espouse democratic ideals. When I looked up the people who tortured Tawanda Muchehihwa on Facebook, there are people all born in the early to mid 80s. They are cruel and sadistic savages...and they are my age!
3. The CIO they have joined, is no different from the early 80s CIO of sinking people in acid, they call themselves Ferrets, individuals that are from the born free era but are as violent as the Kasukuweres and Jabulani Sibandas of this world.
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1. Zanu-PF is an equal opportunity abuser.
In 2019 January, when soldiers went on a rampage raping community members, there was a murakashi here on Twitter who got his sister raped 💔. The young man started looking for a gun to shoot someone 💔💔
2. Joyce Mujuru was at the Zenith of her powers when she was elected VP, she was a powerful politician within Zanu PF, with a storied liberation history she had all the credentials. But when she fell on one faction, she became public enemy and was abused and booted out.
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3. This is exactly why Gukurahundi succeeded, SOME community members in other parts of the country at that time felt that the killing of unarmed citizens was justified. Unless we stop this behavior, it will consume us & when it is our turn to cry no one will be there.
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1. Only that I'm very busy these days preparing for a manuscript submission, but I think this Preprint has a great need to be analysed and its findings put in the bigger context. @TChivese
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3. This is purely an academic exercise, to really get into the intestines of the paper and ask the hard questions and interrogate everything.
@TinofaMutevedzi @SibandaSibbs @TChivese @mdimairo @llgonde what say ye? Everyone is welcome to attend with questions or additions.
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