I was told there’s no point


Hello Reader, Yesterday morning, I was parked outside a small shopping centre in Harare when a woman I vaguely knew walked over to greet me. We exchanged a few pleasantries, then she asked what I did for a living. We see each other most mornings, and I suppose that, given the way I'm usually dressed and the fact that I never seem to be in much of a hurry, she had become curious. After I told her that I run a Shona learning programme for children, she asked a few more questions. Looking back,...