The ManicaPost
Morris Mtisi Post Correspondent
Two weeks ago on Straight Talk we held our talk-show on the backdrop of Africa Day which was and always comes every 25th day of May.
My studio guest on Straight Talk is Nunu. She is a brilliant thinker, philosopher and psychologist in her own right but above all, and this is what excites me most . . . she is a Christian counsellor. She is a transformative disruptive leader (take note, not disrupting leader).
She stirs up the mind, refocuses it and helps in an amazing way to change mind-sets.
In real straight talk mood and style she straight away went for the jugular vein. “If you are African, how African are you . . . 10 percent? 20 percent? 80 percent? We need to begin to see Africa Day as a day that rises above and beyond political gleam,” she started.
“Celebrating Africa Day is narrowing it to a frivolous event many ordinary Africans have long dismissed as irrelevant. Every day must be Africa Day except Africa Day,” she said, obviously implying that Africa Day must be more than celebrating political independences by African countries but also celebrating being African individuals in every sense.
“A lot of Africans are afraid or hate being black because they have been told for many years that they are inferior, they are wrong and they cannot have money.”
She revealed how Zimbabwe was colonised by a mere company whose CEO was Cecil John Rhodes and expressed displeasure that History was not succinct enough on this and did not teach and stretch this truth far enough.
She revealed how African women, for example, spent billions of dollars of money per year buying artificial hair and skin-lightening creams . . . money that could be used to look after orphans, widows and widowers and other under-privileged groups. Buying beauty! At a phenomenal cost!
“Who told you, you were not beautiful as you are?” she asked reminding listeners how God made every woman including the African woman, beautiful and fearfully made.
We enjoyed a bit of straight-talk laughter when she said African women’s anatomy was gorgeous and how often-times it tantalised men and invited sexual greed from male nymphomaniacs or roughnecks. I added in good romantic judgment and agreement how even the sheer geography of African women beautifully exhibited physical prosperity and majesty.
“So who told you African woman, you were ugly, wrong and inadequate?” Nunu asked.
“Who told you, you needed to become a yellow-bone; you needed straight and not kinky hair? Who told you, you needed green, red or green lips to become beautiful? Were or are your superfluous boobs and ‘seats’ not a source of physical majesty, honour and pride?”
She crossed the line and went on to how Africans have run away from eating well . . . eating healthy, because they despised their own food . . . their own madhumbe and madora. She did not forget to reveal some frightening truth about eating unhealthy.
“If you begin to eat foods that do not come straight from your own soil . . . fresh from your own soil where God strategically implanted you, you developed cancers, diabetes, hypertensions (BP) and other funny illnesses. The Indians eat their own cultural foods . . . and so do Chinese even when they here in Mutare. Why do we fill our fridges and pantries with refined and poisonous foods? Just to feel white and classy?” she asked.
That is Nunu for you on Straight Talk. Amazing courage and thoughts! If you are tired of listening to the same lies about life in general and do want to change in your thinking . . . and be realigned with the basics . . . with God the Creator without being sermonised or evangelised, listen to Nunu on Straight Talk.
The world is pregnant with a lot of lies and stereotypes that are not only sheer rubbish but boring lies about almost anything.
Straight Talk seeks to discuss or debate issues with ruthless honestly and frankness . . . the truth that the Bible says will set us free.
Tune in to Straight Talk every Thursday at 9:30 pm.
You are invited to send questions, remarks, comments, complaints, compliments and suggestions in sealed envelopes to Diamond FM–Straight Talk or via our WhatsApp studio number 078 222 85 78 before or after every programme. We will answer every important question around our Straight Talk space . . . The crises of Relationships and Marriages . . . Divorces and Domestic Violence; Anger and how to manage it and the whole gamut of topics around the battle of sexes.
How does the Bible integrate with systems and processes of life? Who is the real enemy in the equation of existence . . . the list is very long? With Nunu’s permission, I am in the process of compiling and branding these Straight Talk with Nunu recordings on audio CDs so that those who want can access them for their church men’s and women’s group talking points, school public speeches and debates, adult and youth clubs.
