While I was in Zimbabwe in the time where I wasn't sure if I had moved back and most of you who are stateside thought I had moved there for good, I allowed myself to rediscover and enjoy the variety of entertainment the city had to offer no matter how *pedestrian or *fancy (*all relative terms). Bulawayo is a very small city so as a survival technique I'd told myself that I was open to exploring parts that as a child I might not have. If I limited myself to the places that were rubber-stamped and approved by the who's who's and cool kids I'd either always be home or go only to 2 places. As a m'salad who enjoys and is familiar with the pleasures of goat meat as well as goat cheese, I was open to going off the beaten path or in this case the heavier potholed roads and it was all a fantastic time. Some of you might want to get over yourselves and try it :) ...Anywhoo...
Some new developments on the way to Amakhosi from Nkulumane. You diasporans, which one of you...
Waiting for the show to begin
Some of the crowd
Some of the rappers to perform
Interesting and creative ensemble here
colorful
...still patiently waiting and hoping it doesn't start raining
view from the parking lot
If I could buy this apartment building and refurbish it I'm sure it would be an amazing space
Main Street, Bulawayo with rain on the horizon
There is something about beautiful cities. Whether big or small, deprivation and even sometimes being ravaged by war doesn't undo or take away from that undeniable beauty and sense of peace. Bulawayo is one of those. I'm not sure how people who have lived their whole lives there feel, but everywhere I looked I saw beautiful buildings whose paint just needed to be touched up, windows needed to be washed and light bulbs changed and it would make all the difference. The structures are solid and well constructed and finished, but maintenance long left undone. It would be really great to see a civic and city council driven partnership to revive the city. I strongly believe that the spaces people inhabit strongly influence how people feel in them and about themselves. Bulawayo used to be alive, and is sleeping for right now. It would be great to see it awake again.
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*@afropolitaine*
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