Topic: Culture and Identity
Stories exploring Zimbabwean identity, traditions, values and the ways culture changes across generations and across borders.
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From Gym Complaint to Xenophobic Punchline: How a Hygiene Video Became a National Insult
A video about gym hygiene triggered honest conversations about bathing, clean clothes, deodorant, affordability and men’s self-care. Then social-media amplification stripped away the original…
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Are Children a Retirement Plan? Tinashe Mutarisi Challenges “Chirere Chigokurerawo”
He called “chirere chigokurerawo” a scam. Critics said he had confused financial entitlement with the love and physical care ageing parents need. Beneath the…
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“That Sadza Is Fighting for Its Life”: Can Zimbabwe’s National Dish Really Work at 40,000 Feet?
A photo of an Air Zimbabwe in-flight meal sent Zimbabwean X into stitches. But beneath the jokes about “brick moulding” was a bigger question:…
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£1,700 for a Sick Cat: When Zimbabwean Workers Meet Britain’s Pet-Family Culture
The cat was admitted, given a bed and discharged with antibiotics after a reported £1,700 bill. To some Zimbabweans it was absurd; to pet…