Steemit Zimbabwe Born Today. Our Memoirs: Part 1 (Foreword )
Quest to freedom…
After the birth of our motherland Zimbabwe. Our joy illuminated since we writers in Zimbabwe would regain our voice to murmur again. What our eyes and hearts gulped down in the paths of sorrow spelt emancipation against inexplicable gagging experiences. The dark era of blood and sadness of loss had bred hate and dejected hearts. Things have not been well over the dark years of long wars.
Awakening…
Polarisation of expression forced the birth of a transverse wave of resistance through our own young men and women like Dambudzo Marechera whose great works like “House of hunger” and “Black Insider” will never snuff. Never understood by the community for failing to forego recluse he sleeps in the clouds as our hero. Our teary eyes began to open and see away darkness. Zimbabwean authors rose as an icon of black recognition and disruptive reasoning. Latent “cast” imbalances have grown strong tentacles till today: tough to break and protect the down trodden. Marechera’s exclusions, expulsions and injustices booted him and littered his way till his death. Until now, his work stands in our archives as a symbol of hope, liberty and undying resurgence. Such introspective sense of deductive thinking by our young men and women sprouted voices of emancipation. Education was now an option for the weak which grew our wings of strength such that legends like Dambudzo Marechera, Charles Mungoshi,Patrick Chakaipa, Shimmer Chinodya, Chenjerai Hove, Aaron Chiwundura moyo, T.K Tsodzo, Tsitsi Dangarembga etc had exceptional reflections in titles like “Coming of the dry season”, “Waiting for the rain”, “Nervous Conditions” etc.
The Enemy…
Little did we know that tough times lay ahead. Narrations of discrimination, gender violence and poverty is always mirrored in their work shining images of our silently ridden society. Until today the default status of such unethical rites is our societal menace. Poverty’s ugly head is causing a violation of the copyright laws in our streets and country. Author’s work is being replicated and sold without a dime rewarded to the originators.
True Legacy…
Upon such strong foundations and backdrop of our fore-fathers and mothers we uncap our pens again and continue wetting binary parchments with the ink of freedom. So sad and joyful is our success being built on the blockchain for unknown generations to see and hear our story carved on the digital architecture and archives of life forever.
Ray Of Hope…
Thanks to Steemit ,for today Steemit Zimbabwe has been born. A pen is mightier than a gun. In a week, we have managed to unite and help each other to build our work on the blockchain and tell our story as Africa. We have been a lost generation of unknown identities, the faceless ones but today we celebrate with Steemit Zimbabwe fans to come as we unite to author our future. We have started discussing on a small chat. Whatsapp me and join the walk to freedom +263773811601 .More Zimbabwean steemers are relating to our causes. We shall define our work in English Ndebele, Shona, Venda, Kalanga Korekore, Ndau, Manyika, Zezuru as the vanguard of our era .Our quilts shall not dry…To be continued.
15 June 10:00pm 2017 .Story By Zimleague
Welcome on steemit zimbabwe keep up the great work
Thank you indeed.
You truly bussed in an illuminated beam of courage in us as an entity. The piece is bi-dimensional inspiring and pathetically touching. Thanks
Thank you @tapiwa hupenyu hwedu hunorongwa nashe .Reliving our past experiences is exhausting and at times pathetic but we shall always have the space in our hearts to reminisce.
May you carry with you the great legacy those legendary authors have left and proceed with their vision and awaken the zimbabwean author !
Thank you
I spoke at a Bitcoin conference in Harare back in November and I tried to get people there to join Steemit back then. Glad to see there is momentum all these months later. Here are three of the people I met at the conference:
Zimbabwe financial crisis is tough for digital currency startups to kick off.Banks are failing
to honour payments locally and internationally which makes liquidity crunch the norm of the day.
The downside has a merit when it comes to digital currency adoption which has seen many corporates trying to
avert this crisis by using crypto currencies.Tawanda kembo is our friend and we look forward working
together since he is also on steemit and encouraging us so much.He even offered a venue for
steemians to do meetups.
During such a time like this, ordinary writers and bloggers can find a safe haven in steemit.Bank are
closing and financial systems are crushing which leaves little room to any fiat solutions to take off.
This is rippling across Africa as well.
The summer school is a great idea to get people and users understand digital currencies.A framework that is solid is needed to give a support base to new users .To help them until they get used to such platforms and how they work.There is a lot of groundwork we are doing to use different ways to recruit newbies and train them while slowly inducting them.
steemit is a social network which offers a less technical interface which most users find easy to use, post and curate thus earning a living while blogging.
As a writer we are encouraged by the influx of writers we are getting using social media platforms e.g twitter, facebook, linkedin, instagram, youtube, whatapp etc to mobilise users to get to know more about steemit and other platforms.
Our Chatroom officially recently opened a few days ago will be hosted on discord so we assist others while we do our work on steemit. The link is : https://discord.gg/zrnymkk
My whatsapp number to link to our groups is +263773811601
Thank you Adam for your support and interest in Zimbabwe.We look forward meeting you again in another steemit summer school.
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