Coffee With Nawanadem
If you were having coffee with me, I welcome you to may tangle of words… I would wish you a happy new year, if I haven’t already… When does one stop wishing people a Happy New Year?
Woke up to find people punctuating their sentences with “Nawanadem”. Seems like the streets have found a new word to play with, nawanadem. Is this what growing old feels like, trends and time move so fast, you blink and you have no idea when language started sounding like gibberish, nawanadem??
After a bit of internet research my thoughts are that vibes aside, no one has a clear understanding of what it means. The phrase was popularised by a trending Zim Dancehall song by Master H featuring Voltz JT called Dhanzi.
Nawanadem is said to be derived from the Jamaican patois for the one I name, dah one I name.
The word may have its roots from Jamaican patois, but the street meaning has transcended language and become an exclamation, or an emphasis point on what you have just said exactly quite unlike saying you feel me or you know what I mean… Bringing together not only listeners of dancehall music but the young and old, people from all works of life, in its catchy vibes…. Nawanadem.
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that the new year honey moon is over, nawanadem, and we back to the default systems and Kind Regards, nawanadem. It’s a new year and looks like we back to the same old, same old… as the streets would say “Ngoma ndiyo ndiyo” a phrase which can be loosely translated to mean “and the same (drum)beat plays on” meaning nothing has changed.
If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that statutory instrument for the new passport prices has been gazetted. Passports now cost $150 up from $120 and then there is an extra $20 to get a QR code.
I don’t understand how a QR code can possibly cost $20 and if its an optional feature, in which case, when I apply for mine I would opt out of paying the additional fee. I should ask the registrar general if I can stick my own QR code on the passort… I mean hey if a bottle of whiskey can get a QR Code on it… why not a passport?
The extra fee from the QR Code reminds of the kinds of shenanigans we used to get upto back in school to get extra money from the parents, like saying the science teacher said we need to pay the Mitochondria Lab fee– Sorry mum. 🤞🏾 😇
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that it seems the person who is in charge of switching off the electricity is back from the holidays and has resumed load-shedding duties with a vengeance. I suspect someone broke their heart and they are now plunging the country into darkness as revenge, willing the the country to reflect on the darkness of heartbreak that resulted in his villain origin story.
If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority issued out a string of measures that could upset the relationship between manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers… as only licensed wholesalers would buy from manufacturers and only licensed retailers can buy from wholesalers…
Not sure who was consulted before these measures were announced but looks like some of the proposed measures from the 2024 budget have been revised after the crazy turn of prices as business adjusted to the new taxes and requirements causing prices of basic goods to start going crazy.
Its crazy how we live in a country that’s feels like it’s a statutory instrument away from turning one into an outlaw… nawanadem.
If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that Uganda deorbited its PearlAfricaSat-1 Cube Sat launched on the same day as Zimbabwe’s ZimSat-1 which were run under the BIRDS-5 programme. The Ugandan Science and Technology Dr Monica Musero says it was due to its inability to perform communications, internet, or TV services though it did take photos that could be used for geographical purposes.
One cant help wonder what Zimbabwe’s own satellite is doing out there in space if its sibling got de-orbited, 13 months after launch… Come to think of it, I haven’t heard anything about it since its launch which I wrote about a year ago Coffee With Artemis Flyoff
Whats been happening in your neck of the woods, nawanadem.
~B
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