Meditations on Migration

Haina Vroom

Text book Speak and a Private Entrepreneur - It finally hit me recently, this whole big words thing. I have been for it and against it and for it again…

Oct 31 • 

Allen Matsika

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Hitchhiking in a Tractor

The Kindness of Zimbabweans - It had been piling up, the compassion without a need for a financial compensation. It’s really great to encounter the…

Oct 23 • 

Allen Matsika

September 2025

Loss and the Long Winding Road

Shadow Master - They say the journey of a thousands miles begins with one step; an encouragement to simply start, which signals a choice of when to…

Sep 5 • 

Allen Matsika

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July 2025

Kakistocracy; Looking in from the Outside

A Broken Language Center in the Brain - Now being a part of the flow, I realise that people may take for granted and find familiar their mother tongue…

Jul 31 • 

Allen Matsika

It’s Broke, Its Dead (Chakadambuka, Chakafa)

My trip to get an electrical appliance. Accompanying this update was the question, "Muri kurarama munyika ipi imimi" (Where have you been living?) I…

Jul 10 • 

Allen Matsika

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Not for Everyone

An Amazing Afro-Sino Recital - All this to say, maybe happiness is not for everyone, and for those whose lot it is to be miserable, the sooner they…

Jul 4 • 

Allen Matsika

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June 2025

Dhiziri Rese Rarasika (All the Diesel has spilled out of the tank)

Forest Forest Gump - I feel like Forest Gump who ran for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours, going until he was “pretty tired and ready to go…

Jun 27 • 

Allen Matsika

The First Poop

Human all too human - My attempts and being light during quite the challenging time. Until next week, I am here in Zimbabwe still grinding, still…

Jun 19 • 

Allen Matsika

When My Friend Died

She was yet to do more - Since I heard the news of her passing and sat with it, I have felt strangely different as though I am living not only for…

Jun 13 • 

Allen Matsika

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Ngatigare Tese (Let's sit together)

Sometimes you just can't strong - Self acceptance sounds like the best gift I can give to the world right now. Accepting that this version of me is…

Jun 5 • 

Allen Matsika

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May 2025

Why, whats the point?

Just add light - They peered in the darkness expecting to divine how far to jump from the dim light. Then one of then whipped out her phone and switched…

May 1 • 

Allen Matsika

April 2025

A tree in the middle of the road

Being naturally the self - It adapts to its harsh reality, beautifully even, spawning into tiny bushes as a way of keeping with that growing principle…

Apr 24 • 

Allen Matsika

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