As I launch my website, I wish to lay all the cards on the table. I will make this confession only once and never again. After all, transparency breeds trust and enhances context.

Writing for the sake of writing

“Writing for the sake of writing” means a writer writes not to entertain or please an audience but because they feel an urge to. For me, the act of writing is similar to sneezing or eructation. Words and ideas well up inside me until I cannot contain them. I have to write. I need (not want) to.

My writing journey

I started writing in childhood. I only started publishing my work since the inception of social media, mainly on Facebook. I took my efforts further and founded a blog, “The Zimbabwe Reader”, in late 2015.

My pieces attracted the attention of several publishing houses that approached me with different publishing contracts. I published “The Kingdom of Zimbabwe: Protest Essays” a month before the Zimbabwe 2017 coup because all my writings were somewhat prophetically alluding to that event.

After publication, I took down the blog (in reverence to the contract) and set up several blogs, all taken down in protest by disgruntled parties. I have been on the receiving end of the contemporary “cancel culture” countless times.

My writing agenda

Even though I write for the sake of writing, I have an agenda. My primary goal is to subliminally and overtly introduce people to Jesus Christ.

Even when I write a piece that may not sound like “preaching the Gospel”, I still smuggle Biblical teachings and undertones into almost all my work. For example, read the first six posts published on this website.

For the staunch Christians who have criticised me for doing this, I wish to remind you of this Biblical reference (Mark 2: 15 – 17, NKJV);

15 Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him.
16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance“

I also wish to bring to your attention Matthew 13: 52 (NKJV);

Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

A delicate whispering voice

Even though my writing has a deep apostolic quality and sharp prophetic accuracy, I still cease from bestowing on myself any ecclesiastical title.

All I can say is that just like innumerable Christians out there; I also hear the still small voice mentioned in 1 Kings 19: 12 (NKJV),

and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

I desire that my readers read my pieces like I hear this voice (hence why I constantly call you GENTLE READER).

My writing process

My writing process is crude.

An idea/topic comes to me. I read and watch as much material on the subject as I can.

I pray and ask for guidance in sifting through all the research. All the while, I absorb myself in all my LEARNING.

I continue stewing over the topic while showering, eating, sitting on the toilet seat, driving and even between patient consultations.

The subject consumes my very existence until I cannot take it any longer.

Finally, I find myself awake between midnight and 5 am, sitting at my desk, opening my Word Processor, and regurgitating my agony.

Do my gentle readers now understand why I find citing references difficult?

The end product (a post/piece/article) is an amalgamation of an arduous process of trying to let out a spiritually-inspired intellectual fart.