This is THE LAST EPISODE in the series. I'm back in SA and so ends my holiday. I'm prepping to head to an AI exam at the moment of publishing. I got to talk to Daniel Photo aka malgamves last night about school, exam stress, his Twitter handle and a whole bunch of other interesting revelations before we got interrupted by load shedding. Make sure to check out DevCon_ZM: Zambia's annual developer conference which Daniel will be helping to organize.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

Daniel on twitter

Devcon ZM on twitter

Devcon ZM website

Welcome to a very special episode where I kick off the year with CodeCast ZM hosts, Mukuma and Elias! These gentlemen have had a lot of experience with community organizing for tech events in Zambia. After some catching up we talked a bit about the highs and lows of community organizing in Zambia, what we've learned, and any tips we would give to people starting out communities in Zambia.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

Codecast ZM on Anchor

CodeCast ZM website

Agora Code Community

DevC Lusaka (Developers Circles Lusaka)

Global Game Jam

For some reason, I am struggling to review the decade. It wasn't that great when I look at it. I'm grateful for a lot of things but the big picture of my life in the 2010s doesn't make me so happy.

Happy Holidays and welcome back! Today I decided to do an unboxing of unboxings?.. to celebrate the day after the day after Christmas? Anyway it feels like the right time to do this but I talked about 20 things I unboxed in 2019. By unboxing I mean 20 new things from 2019 that I did or that happened to me.

List of things:

1. Learning how to ride a bike

named CHARIOTTSU PAPURU (Purple Chariot). Yeah we started this with a JoJo reference

Thank you Bill

2. Dungeons and Dragons

Stop, Drop and Role

3. Fiverr

If you want to peep at my gig

4. A whole year of therapy sessions

University student counselling

5. PERMAH

What is PERMAH?

It may or may not work for people but I personally did get something out of looking at my overall wellbeing through these aspects.

6. Sometimes you actually do need to STFU

Animal chart thing with shark, owl, turtle, teddy and fox

Aba and Preach video

Context matters in this of course.  This only works for balanced relationships or relationships you actually want/need to preserve imo. And if you need to save your interests then the shark is appropriate. But it's okay to be a turtle sometimes to just let little conflicts blow over.

7. Running my own Table Top RPG

Harry Potter and the TableTop RPG

8. Cosplay

Con.Ect Port Elizabeth

I'll probably tweet the pics

9. I'm a plant mum now

...with a single Bonsai Ginseng Ficus named Olga

10. Having a public non game jam game

Mediations started by Rami Ismail

December 14th Meditation by Sithe Ncube

11. Launching my new initiative Prosearium.net

prosearium.net

Playtopia

12. Completing an online course

ALC 4.0 in partnership with Google and Pluralsight

13. Pokemon Shuffle

Pokemon Shuffle

14. A stable hair routine

15. TASER!

16. Crahp tahps

17. Board game hangouts

18. Painting Gouache

19. Age of Mythology - The Board Game

Age of Mythology Video Game Wikipedia

Age of Mythology the Board Game

20. Podcasting!

Another interesting conversation at Bongohive! I can't help it. There are lots of interesting people in that space. This time get to know 19 year-old programmer and poet, Mapalo Chibwe. Learn what makes her tick, her hobbies, and her plans for world domination.

Word Smash Poetry

With the industrial break upon us, enjoy a casual conversation I had with Simunza Muyangana, Director of Entrepreneurship at Bongohive. In this long chat, we talk about the past, present, and future of the space, get some entrepreneurship wisdom, and talk about everything from Age of Empires to our first impressions of each other in 2013.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

Bongohive

Simunza

Team Gematrix

In this episode, I spent some time at Bongohive and had a chance to talk to two fellow Obama Foundation Leaders: Regina Mtonga from the 2018 cohort, and Likumbi Kapihya from the 2019 cohort. We got into what we learned and how we're doing with our 12-month project action plans.

Bongohive

Asikana Network

Social Enterprise Academy Zambia

Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa

After getting 27 minutes of raw, well-timed recording magically deleted, I was pretty frustrated but still ended up recording an episode at 1AM because we already committed to this dang it! In this episode, I talk about the top 5 things I'm looking forward to while I'm back in Lusaka for a break.

Well! I was signing up for Anchor because I wanted to do a limited series podcast over the December holiday where I try to find my voice and get comfortable with being recorded. Got two things off the list: Tested the mic and made a podcast trailer all in one go. Stay tuned for some bi-weekly stuff if you want to hear more of me.