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Creating theSpace for Zimbabwean youth to thrive

A bold initiative, launched in Harare last year to support Zimbabwean youth with business opportunities and to create a civic engagement platform, is starting to bear fruit. This initiative, known as "theSpace", brings together individuals from different sectors of society in a quest to re-imagine Zimbabwe and co-create a globally conscious cohort of open-minded individuals dedicated to local and international socio-economic growth. After a successful run last year, which resulted in a more engaged community, this year is poised to be even better with buy-in from embassies, government and youth.

The makings of a man: 31 things that life has taught me

On the eve of my 31st birthday I caught myself devouring a shawarma wrap with such unthinking and savage dexterity that I actually had to take a pause and reflect on life itself. And in the middle of that pause all the ambivalence I had been nursing about turning 31 dissipated. In its place was a renewed enthusiasm. Suddenly celebrating my last calendar birthday (Apparently it’s a thing.) didn’t seem so frivolous.