Harare is beautiful by Taffy Gotora

I have been getting Questions like whats the capital city of Africa,and what is the main language in Africa.well I would be more than happy to reply that Africa is a continent like Asia and Europe,unlike all the other continents it has about 54 countries with different languages, Governments,different cultures but slightly similar in a few things,SouthAfricans are the only people that speak Afrikans,I speak Shona and dont understand Zulu or Afrikans.Yes we do speak English cause its taught in schools and we speak English with most of our family and friends,We do go shopping,drive cars,eat in restaurants and go to the cinema to watch movies like everyone else and we read shakespeare, jane austen and other classis literature as well as literature in our own language.Please dont think we are different in any way,the only difference is the color of our skin and even though we might not have all the riches in the world and most people might not be wearing the same clothes or living in the same environment we are all human and we do feel and love life.By the way there are white, Asians,and other races in Africa born and raised and educated in Africa,just like there are black people in America and Asians in Australia born and raise there.Thanks for reading,Dont take this personal I am not trying to be rude but am just tired of all the negative publicity Africans are getting and this was the only way I could try to point out same facts to people. HARARE is a beautiful city with friendly people and is very safe..everyone goes to South Africa but south africa is crime infested and very unsafe but people always want to say bad things about Harare and my country Zimbabwe…we have political problems here just like Americans have with Bush imposing a war on them…Harare is safe and worth visiting!!!!

over 6 years ago

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Alex Mauzon

Alex Mauzon
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I've been there some time ago

There were some recommendations to avoid walking at dark time whatever my skin is. It was not my recommendation though :)

And there was a crazy problem to currency: official local rate was about 65 Z$ to US $1, real (market?) rate was 650 Z$ to US $1.

Of course it is not a reason to do not visit a country but what to do with my money if I can’t change them to real rate?

Also there were many problems to other important things (tobacco, gazoline etc).

I would be happy to visit Zimbabwe one more time – Kariba lake, waterfalls etc.

But later ;)



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