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A Thousand Stories
FROM A SCRAPYARD
Tawanda Mupatsi. Harare, Zimbabwe
hildhood exuberance would mentary good boys and girls, after a series
often lead us into some of the of parental rebukes, we would always find
Coddest places in our search for ourselves gravitating towards the scrapyard.
hidden thrills that were tucked somewhere From there we would scrounge for wires,
within the community’s corners. From the pieces of metal bars, and bottle tops to make
mischievous and daring act of swimming in wire cars and other improvised toys. One
dirty deep waters that meandered nearby, to day a friend had ‘a good find’ from one of
stealing mangoes, berries, and guavas from the piles of rubbish. It was an old television
neighboring orchards to incite rage from set with a wooden exterior that we could use
both the property owners and their guard as a prop in a game called Mahumbwe (A
dogs. On those few days when we were mo- Shona word meaning-playing house). With-
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