A new arrival
14 March 2004
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We didn't do much today. Went for a movie and a bite and, in the evening, had a couple of drinks with Darlington, the manager of the Small World lodge. We talked about the acceptance of gays in Zimbabwe, mozzarella cheese, mobile phones and a man Betsy and I had seen at Italian Bakery: Bright yellow, the shirt he was wearing contained several big pictures of Mugabe and texts like Vote Robert Mugabe, Zanu PF and Indigenization.
On Saturday, I went to the market at Avondale shopping center and discovered that CDs, DVDs and videos are relatively expensive. DVDs (illegal copies) sell for 75000, around 17$. Meanwhile, going to the cinema will set you back a hefty 1$. Or less.
Books, too, were expensive. Second hand paperbacks are supposed to fetch, at least $6, although some haggling got it down to $3, but still. Meanwhile, old National Geographics go for as little as 12 cents per copy.
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After obtaining an M. Sc in maths, Babak Fakhamzadeh started with an office job at a major blue chip company but soon realised he'd do better on his own. Babak is a traveling web guru with a penchant for doing good and a love for visual and experimental art. Together with Ismail Farouk, he won the prestigious Highway Africa new media award in 2007 for