Ben C Chiganze, PhD, is a prolific writer and self-made successful businessman who sits on a number of Boards in Zimbabwe. Ben is the last born in a family of six children whose father was a teacher in rural schools. His father’s rural home is in Gandiya village, Rukweza in Makoni district in the eastern part of Zimbabwe where he grew up. He is therefore deeply rooted in the Shona culture, hence his motivation to write this book. He grew up during the colonial era in the then Southern Rhodesia where he experienced and lived a life of deprivation caused by inequalities in the system created deliberately by the whites who were the dominant race.
For how long should Africa continue to be associated with hunger, poverty, desperation, corruption, and mediocrity? For how long will Africa’s natural endowments continue to be viewed as a curse instead of a blessing? When are our children going to put on new clothes instead of relying on second-h...