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Facebook- The Zimbabwean Angle

Posted by zi.editor on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in Websites & Blogs.

Zimbabwean Facebookers have set up sixteen Kirsty Coventry fan groupsThey have left Zimbabwe. Friends, family members and people I have worked with.

Left: Zimbabwean Facebookers have set up sixteen Kirsty Coventry fan groups.

Over the last ten years I have been to the airport many heartbreaking times to say good bye to them as they jetted off to destinations all over the world. Then there are those who I never said good bye to. Those who just faded into the crowd- never to be seen again- until I signed up to Facebook and started meeting them all again, one by one. (more…)

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Bring on the Zimbo Bloggers

Posted by zi.editor on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 in News & Updates, Websites & Blogs.

We survey the new landscape of online self-publishing that has taken Zimbabwe by storm.

When I was a kid growing up in Bulawayo I woke up one morning to find that the Sunday News- that City’s biggest Sunday newspaper at the time- had published one of the short stories I had submitted to them. I was thrilled.

That was in 1995 and I was in Upper 6 then. As any writer will testify, to find an outlet for one’s work is an ultimate aspiration.

In a time when the printed word was, well, the printed word- it was exhilarating to get printed- and I suppose, thirteen years later, in 2008, it still is. (more…)

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