Farai Shawn Matiashe is a journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe, who writes for Aljazeera, Quartz Africa, The World, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Ubuntu Times.
Harare, Zimbabwe — When schools reopened in Zimbabwe, late September, Noel Madamombe (16) thought time had arrived for him to prepare for final examinations later this year.
Little did he know...
Mutare, Zimbabwe — Growing up in Ngaone, Chipinge in the southeastern town of Zimbabwe, Ishmael Sithole (35) still recalls bees could not entertain anyone cutting down a tree near...
Mauritius — On a sunny day in Mahébourg southeast of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,000 kilometers off the south-east coast of the African continent,...