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I took this, when a group of us did a day trip to Mutorashanga in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province. Its the area’s green pool quarry that lures people to experience something different I suppose. There were a few of us, mostly if not all youth. Music, drinks, snacks, beach wear and babes all rising up to the occasion.

Locals would stop and watch us from the horizon. Hence our hero in the image. From up above, bike leaning, arms crossed and gazing at us - out of towners frolic (innocently) in his hood. I couldn’t help but wonder what he was thinking. Judging from his body language, I had to teleport to his possible perspective... And ask myself through his lenses...

1. Why would they come all this way to do this, when they have their own swimming pools in the city?

2. If only they knew what people use these pools for?

3. They don’t know the local stories of what has happened here?

To give you more context - I did not, at any moment, discern any shade of envious green from the young king. He just peacefully watched.

Now, the question that has stuck with me since then has been - what would it take for everyone in a country to be socio-economically, spiritually and mentally wealthy?

Everyone?

Everyone.

#Mutorashanga #ObservationDeck #FreedomContent #Meraki #FoundInTranslation

If one looks close enough, we will always discover something ever so remarkable.

New ways being at our finger tips and sharing their discovery, is like another opportunity to care.

I won’t say much. Ugandan Photographer – Jjumba Martin’s says it all, in this magnetic visual composition of a northern Ugandan mother, protecting her baby from the sun with a calabash.

Love giving birth to innovation.

The gift that drew me to these stills, was my very own sister, who is the ✨ Founder of NNJEH Apparel. I couldn’t help but take another look at Jjumba’s work but through her craft’s eyes, briefly processing the images from another perspective.

Innovation truly has many ways.

Inspiring.

#jjumbamartin #africanphotography

The Beginning’s Beginning

There’s a quotation that best explains why I bellow into laughter when I experience great creative. Our tutor (eons ago) shared it with us during our AdSchool Copywriting classes. Ever so eccentric he was. A true creative; always kind, reasonably awkward and never showing prejudice.

He would chant the apparent words of E. H Grombrich, sometimes with his hands held high, like a conductor directing a symphony.

“We attend because we are momentarily baffled and thus we are ready to search for the answer, which we will remember all the more for having discovered it in such a flash of recognition”.

Its speaking to that moment when you look at a work with curiosity, intrigue, and numbing frustration (like an algebraic equation you have to figure out but have no clue how to). Then, out of nowhere, you discern the message of the creative. A mash up of revelation, delight and victory, all in one instance.

This is (partly) where it all began - the appreciation of the business of words.

It’s been an interesting journey since the last time I shared anything here.

I can assure you - this won’t be the last.

Stay tuned...

Ceased by this composition, I was. The captured moment, opposing movement, the gender balance, the contradiction of numbers from the top to the bottom, the tower of protected crates and the snatching red.

Thought provoking indeed.

Many thanks to photographer, Steven Chikosi. For more of his work go to www.stevenchikosi.com

#StevenChikosi #ZimbabweanPhotography #AfricanPhotography #StreetPeople #SocialHierarchy #1000wordsplus

Close The Tap - Native's Initiative on World Water Day (22 March 2012)

Opportunity - raising awareness of water wastage in South Africa.

Objective - a 10,000 tweet target in order to switch off a virtual running tap of water.

Result - Target reached after 72 days on the 1st of June 2012 and awareness of the plight - extended South African boarders.

Good cause, fun engagement, educational and goal orientated. Attention definitely captivated. Great work.

http://closethetap.com/

#Close the tap #Water wastage facts #World Water Day 2012

If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master; If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -- Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

#Rudyard Kipling #If