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Silencing the knowledge of elders "I took Mbuya Chigondo to the distribution centre to get her food handout the other day. The donor wanted widows, the elderly, the most vulnerable. (She) fit the criteria. A young man called her by first name. The donor brought to the village a knowledge with the power to call an old lady by her first name, as if she was a young girl in primary school." — Zimbabwe Herald

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