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Purple

When I left Bulawayo five years ago, it was at the height of the jacaranda season; with the purple flowers carpeting every avenue of the…

9 min readNov 3, 2020

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

Genève: The View From Inside a Golden Cage

There is a haunted kind of beauty in his face as he looks at me, the silence between us stretching far into the bounds of awkwardness.

6 min readOct 12, 2023

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Genève: The View From Inside a Golden Cage

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

New York City: A Hymn to Capitalism

Reflections of a former Parisian in the Big Apple

6 min readMay 27, 2023

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New York City: A Hymn to Capitalism

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

The Boy Who Was Never Enough

It would haunt your nightmares for years to come. The boys and girls surrounding you, refusing to let you break through the circle they had…

6 min readSep 7, 2022

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The Boy Who Was Never Enough

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

South Africa Through The Looking Glass: A Fairy-Tale Gone Wrong

Watching the recent looting that erupted in South Africa last week, I remembered an experience I wrote about almost ten years ago…

6 min readJul 21, 2021

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South Africa Through The Looking Glass: A Fairy-Tale Gone Wrong

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

The Morning Star Has Set

He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Luke 10:18.

6 min readMar 28, 2021

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The Morning Star Has Set

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Thinking of You

A tale of love and loss, of bittersweet memories, joy and the indescribable pain of first love.

4 min readNov 27, 2020

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Thinking of You

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Go Our Dove, Those ahead Shall Pluck You

On the occassion of the death of one of the architects of a genocide, I share a Ndebele proverb turned poem on justice, or the lack of it.

2 min readJul 29, 2020

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Go Our Dove, Those ahead Shall Pluck You

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

Eden

There is a garden. And in the garden there is a tree. A tree as tall as can be. That reaches to the brink of heaven,

3 min readJan 23, 2020

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Eden

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Green Pastures: Reflections from the Diaspora

What you did when you left was less of leaving than it was of running.

6 min readOct 23, 2019

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Green Pastures: Reflections from the Diaspora

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

A normal person who’s trying to live in a world that persistently refuses to be normal | Zimbabwean | Sorbonne University Paris | Writer | Computer Scientist

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