Waking up to the cold weather and the breeze from forests as we drive from our lodge to the symposium venue, we often stopped to let buffalos, baboons and warthog to cross the road. The symposium venue along the Zambezi River and its majestic Victoria falls, named Mosi oa Tunya – the smoke which thunders, offering a gentle wind on sunny days. While us, young men and women from all over Africa armed with the super-pharmacist i-cubed factor, defined as a nature of being Innovators, Inventors and Initiators of things, we learn and discuss about Integrating Emerging Technologies in Pharmacy for the Improvement of Public Health Delivery in Africa.

I arrived at Harare international airport at 1:20am with my next flight to the western city of Victoria Falls at 9am. My plane was the last for the night and the airport was empty, I had in mind what is always in the media about Zimbabwe and I refused the offer from a taxi driver to get for me a room to sleep for the night. Harare was described, as I read before travelling, the world’s least livable city on earth, the 4^th worst on the list.

I then preferred to buy a coca in a café for the server to leave the TV on while he is asleep, I watched the rebroadcast of all that day world cup games that I missed while on planes and transits. It was 6 to 10 degrees that night. Continue reading →