My Love for Music
One of my most enjoyable chapters in the book is ‘My Musical Journey through Song and Dance’ where I track the development of my taste in music that by the way, still continues relentlessly to this day. Being an unapologetic fan of the golden oldies,coming to America has enabled me to delve deeper into some…
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An overview of A Penny For My Thoughts
Through some of my anecdotal experiences, the book tracks my mother country’s political and economic struggles from the colonial days of Rhodesia to independent Zimbabwe. I showcase my personal growth and development from a herd boy in the tribal trust lands to a career banker in the country’s revered capital city of Harare, before eventual…
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The Politics around and beyond the book….
Back in Zimbabwe many years ago, I argued with one youth who couldn’t understand the source of my bitter disappointment with the Mugabe regime, whose reign he and his peers revered, especially for their ‘revolutionary’ and anti-imperialist rhetoric, It later dawned on me that in his short life, the young man knew of no other…
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About the Book
A Penny For My Thoughts is both an autobiography and memoir. It covers my life back in rural Zimbabwe and up to my working life in its capital city, Harare. It also coincides with the advent of a guerrilla war for the independence of the country from colonial Rhodesia under British rule to independent Zimbabwe under the first black President, the late Robert Mugabe.
It chronicles his undemocratic rule that ushered in a long period of suffering until a staged coup by his deputy who is now the President, but a worse dictator than his mentor, unfortunately.
