Archive for July 2020
A Bridge Too Far
Our Zimbabwe government boasts it has opened a nice new bridge in rural Mvurwi that cost of up to US$ 1.8 million. It’s a piddly little bridge, if you ask me, but the road either side has also been widened and retarred. The old bridge was built in 1974, way before independence, our state media…
Read MoreHaiti, I always wondered why – and more now with the hand-wringing over history
Having been to Haiti in my professional meanderings a while ago, I have often wondered what made it such a fascinating place but such a scary one to spend time in. Its colonial history is unique. A rebellion against the French colonisers brought independence 200 years ago. But nothing about Haiti is that straightforward. The…
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