zimbabweansIt has been well documented that Doris Lessing...

zimbabweansIt has been well documented that Doris Lessing is a bigfan of Zimbabweans, and that the cultural, political,and geographic details of these people and their regionhave filled her works with pizzazz. In fact, it is safe to referto Lessing’s work as stylized. Even William Zinser hasproclaimed to be a devout follower of Lessing’s writings.They are good writings. They are Lessing’s writings.In just one of Lessing’s writings the Zimbabweans aretreated ever so harshly under the stark racial divide—driven like a constant zephyr across the sub-Saharanplains—between the natives and their Anglo-colonialoverseers. But, never mind Lessing, let us get to theactual Zimbabweans. Zimbabweans are a generous andintelligent people with an intricate culture that has existedsince what an American college freshman would call “thedawn of time.” By this, said college freshman means, sincethe beginning of human history, since humans are theorganisms that invented the concept of time, as well asmetaphors for describing such abstract phenomena, suchas “dawn.” Ancient Zimbabweans were adept architectsof ziggurats. Like above-mentioned college freshmen,whose concepts of closure often involve the walking intometaphorical depictions of our planet’s rotation in itsinfinite journeying round our star, Zimbabweans will befound walking as silhouette into sunset.