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Derick Matsengarwodzi
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Communication Strategist, Tinzwei Consult
Harare
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Biography
I am a journalist and versatile communication consultant with more than 20 years of experience. My experience includes the media, public relations, advertising and marketing including NGOs, global journalism and copywriting for an advertising agency. Currently, I contribute to Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Journalism Review, IJNet, Mongabay, African Arguments, Kalahari Review (Botswana), Nehanda Radio, The Zimbabwean (UK) and my blog tinzwei.co.zw.
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By Derick Matsengarwodzi| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance@ Five-year-old Melisa’s birthday will probably always remind her father, Cosmas Dambaza*, of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dambaza, a 47-year-old fruit and vegetable vendor at Guzha market in Chitungwiza, a commuter town on the outskirts of Harare, recalls his life in the months and years before Melisa’s birth: waking at 04:00, getting ready, checking in on his wife before striding hurriedly away into the dark.
By Derick Matsengarwodzi| AllAfrica@ Tinotenda*'s childhood in Shamva, a mining town in north-eastern Zimbabwe, was normal - that is, full of promise and wild dreams. That wide open future began to contract when she started to experience discomfort in one of her legs. "At first, I only felt some pain - the leg was not swollen yet. At the local clinic, I was told I was suffering from elephantiasis, and it needed to be drained," the mother-of-one recounted.
By Derick Matsengarwodzi| tinzwei.co.zw@ Back in 1978, two years before independence, the Rhodesian government resolved to establish Chitungwiza, a dormitory town, 25 km south of Harare. After the merger of three African townships of Seke, Zengeza and St Mary’s, it became the youngest, but fastest growing town in the country. That same year, on a very hot 22 October afternoon, I was delivered in St Mary’s clinic.
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