Chapter 1
TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIED CHAPTER I ‘The time is now ripe for us very seriously to consider how best we can ensure that there is a permanent return to...
ANGUS SHAW Blog
Preface
I often used to wonder how Kandaya felt when we were closing in on him or his people. Sometimes they didn’t have a chance because we had the helicopters, the...
Dawn Chorus
Listen to the first things you will hear in the morning, when waking up in Zimbabwe and then in Syria. Dawn chorus in Zimbabwe Dawn chorus in Syria
The Star Fish Story
The Roman Catholic sisters in Mbare dished out the fortified, nutritional drink mahewu, what food they managed to find and antiseptic creams and other basics donated by pharmacies, some time-expired...
The limp Ipad
The limp iPad is attributed to: Classic Doonesbury by Pulitzer Prize winning US cartoonist, author and satirist Gary Trudeau. (In 1981 he wrote a superb book on the new US...
It’s life
At first I disapproved of the “greening” of Zimbabwe’s cellphone towers. But then I took a longer, more contextual view and it didn’t seem too bad. Maybe that’s the way...
The legend of the Ark of the Covenant and the disputed Zimbabwe connection
The legend of the Ark of the Covenant and the disputed Zimbabwe connection By ANGUS SHAW According to legend, white lions of God and a two-headed snake guarded the “drum...
Is the pen mightier than the sword?
Freedom of expression: the debate goes on “I despise what you say but I will defend to the end your right to say it.” The enlightened approach current for so...
Prologue
Home for the Bewildered The man in the next bed, Thought he had a coffin Growing out of his head. He couldn’t wear his hat, What do you think of...
Mutoko Madness
A Memoir By Angus Shaw How do you behave in a poker game with a genocidal murderer? General Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia had a revolver lying beside his over-flowing...
