Sunshine, you are my sunshine!

Glorious Monday, the Sun is out, the birds are chirping away and everyone has a smile on their face. When you grow up in Africa, you take for granted what nature offers you. There is the climbing of trees, eating fresh fruit that is just ripe off the fruit trees. I remember making good use of both ripe and raw fruit. Raw mangoes make sure that any constipation that you may be experiencing will be a thing of the past. When dipped in a mixture of vinegar, salt and chilli powder, you get the most intense sharp and sour taste that you can never re-create in any cooking style.

And you learn so many other things about fruit. You know that fruit is ready by holding it and twisting gently. If it comes off the tree, it is ripe, and 99% of the time, is sweet. If it doesn't come off, just leave it and try again tomorrow! My favourite was to break a branch off a lychee tree that was full of Lychees. We would then sit on the pavements on the side of the road and indulge in the most fantastic meal ever. Oh, yes and my favourites, black, big, juicy mulberries. The best time to eat these was straight after it had finished rain. The rain cleans them and you just pick them off the tree and munch away. Yes, you hands get the most difficult to remove purple stains and your mouth provides the evidence that you have been eating mulberries. Yes, the amount of times my bum has been warmed up for eating "dirty fruit" was all well worth the few moments of pleasure!

And if the sun can do all this to fruit, imagine the goodness that it will do to your skin? I hope everyone reading this takes my advise, get as much sun as possible. Not only does it improve the condition of your skin, it must also produce some type of "good feeling" chemicals in your body, because I cannot remember every feeling depressed or down whilst living in Africa. And I had less in Africa than I have now!

I love the warm weather, and I think the warm weather loves me!

Don't forget, the lighter your skin colour, the more careful you need to be about prolonged exposure to the sun. Don't use that sun block cream, just allow you skin to darken up naturally by slowly exposing it to the sun. I believe in the most natural ways of living, like relying on good old fashion things like vitamin E oil to help keep you looking younger. You can't use vitamin E for a year and expect results, but if you use it on you face and neck your whole life, I will personally guarantee that you will look younger than you should. If you see my mother, you will not believe that she is old enough to be my mother!

I was just reading and watching the news about the problems in my home country. It makes me desperately upset that the people I am from are suffering. There is nothing I can do because of my commitments, but if I could satisfy my commitments and try and help my people, I would! I am one of the many people that took the easy way out and left the country to live abroad where life is good and the basic living standards are above average. That is why I take my hat of to people that both through choice and "do or die" attitude have not given up trying to bring about a change in my home country. These people are the real "freedom fighters". They are fighting for freedom from discrimination and slavery of a system that is designed to break you if your views are not the same as those in power. Democracy was brought to Africa, and although the system should form some part of society, I believe that uniting cultural law into society will benefit the nation as a whole. We cannot discard centuries of history for democracy, we can join them for a law that works for the people, something that the people already understand and live by!


Zimbabwe will always be in my heart, and one day, I will take my children to see the greatness of the people and the land!

I saw something funny the other day that paid tribute to a black sportsman that was trying to inspire kids from the deprived area he grew up in himself. I laughed to myself and really thought that this is just promoting the idea of racial division, and incites racism too, because the area is a known area that ethnic minorities live in London. His PR people obviously are towing the official "we are giving back to the community" line, probably just in time for the launch of his new sportswear range! They should be promoting the fact that he is an extraordinary athlete and not that he is black. Through my experiences with both white and black people that have not had the first hand opportunity to experience racism, I think this concept is difficult to understand! Everyone tries to redress the black/white imbalance rather than promoting achievements regardless of colour. So what if more white people achieve more than any other race. That should be enough incentive for other races to pull their thumbs out and beat them at their own game!