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I’m scared...
Im scared of the future. Will I be able to give my wife the life she deserves in this country I love so dearly. I spent a decade+ away and I wished I was back home always. I want to settle here but the situation is becoming very very hard to justify. I may have to leave again.
I’m scared because my wife has trained for 6 hard years in a foreign land to practice as a doctor and there is a very high possibility that this country will never truly appreciate or compensate her for her work... that’s if she can even get a paying job.
I’m scared of having kids here. Just the other day a government hospital lost 8 out of the 9 babies they delivered that day. Using that as a measure If my wife is not going into private healthcare to deliver her kids there is more than 90% chance that we will lose the baby.
That is petrifying. And even if that baby survives I never want them to want for anything and it scares me that this struggle that we are all in is the reality I may have to raise my kids in.
I’m scared because I don’t have the greatest health and if I catch covid with my asthma and things get complicated the statistics say I’m as good as dead in Zimbabwe. Dead
I’m scared that I’m past it... I’ve been rapping for what seems like all my life waiting for that big break but more talented and consistent people have failed in this environment... what more me ?
On top of that my government doesn’t care about the arts industry and that’s before considering that the average person is unemployed anyway so what money are they going to consume me with ?
Im scared because everyday things are getting worse and it doesn’t seem like there is an end in sight.
I’m scared because it feels like our leaders are infighting again and when that happens you know it’s only the people that end up suffering.
I’m scared of saying these things too loudly because to some I am seen as an influential person because I’m an artist and we know what happens to influential people who express their dissatisfaction with the way things are.
But I’m not deterred
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
But I’m not deterred
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
