winterabc – Becoming The Muse

Awards and Challenges

Of Ending WinterABC

Ciao WinterABC I never say goodbye, goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting… June is ending and so is the #WinterABC a challenge by Afrobloggers; to blog every…

Of The Sound Of Home

Walk with me down my playlist of 5 songs from Zimbabwe. The current most played song on my playlist is Jah Prayzah’s Kwayedza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7X0lgMHhuQ https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/1266422100421685249?s=20 That mbira instrument has me…

Mused

Of The Muse In You: Uhuru

Welcome to the story which I will write with your help. This project is a simple speculative fiction communally inspired but in the course of its creation I have found…

Of Coffee Stirred Round And Round

If you were having coffee with me, I would be glad to have you visit and offer you a very hot cuppa of coffee or whatever else you fancy, as…

Of Time And Healing

The wound time never heals,Not completely;The pastA broken mirror,Cuts as you put it back together.

Defining Moments

Of Magic, Witchcraft And The Law

A regular visitor to these pages would be familiar with my theme The Beauty And Chaos Of The Place I Call l HOME “…I write fantasy, fantasy steeped in African…

Defining Moments

Of Traditions, Marriage And The Law

The main traditions that we maintain are linked to birth, marriage and death; the circle of life. Funerals In the midst of life we are in death and funerals are…

Of Musical Chairs With African President(s)

17 Jun 20201 Oct 2020

https://anchor.fm/becomingthemuse/episodes/Musical-Chairs-With-African-Presidents-efhq5o/a-a2g3ql0 You know the game called musical chairs, where people dance around a set of chairs and then when the music stops, you have to find a chair to sit...…

Defining Moments

Of Youth Day and the Soweto Uprising

16 Jun 202016 Jun 2020

For many, it started it started as an ordinary day… No one could have imagined that this day would rock Soweto, South Africa, even the world and over 40 years…

Defining Moments

Of Making Twitter Work For You

11 Jun 202011 Jun 2020

I logged into twitter about ten years ago, and I have never logged out. (Ok I have logged out but I have never really left) Do you hear that, playing…

Awards and Challenges…

Of Blogging ABCs I Would Rather You Didnt

I would rather you didn’t... Apologise for being authentic You matter and you have a right to be here: Whether you are just starting or you have had a long…

Kitchen Diaries

Of Kitchen Diaries

My blog has a category which ideally should be a section with recipes and interesting tidbits from around the kitchen area: Kitchen Diaries But as with all good plans that…