Grace Sibanda

It is Father's day and I am genuinely concerned about the state of fatherhood in this world, history will always repeat itself but do we leave it up to that to see what brand of fathers the future holds.  I am of the believe that you can catch them whilst they are still young as in Ndebele we say 'isigogo sigoqwa sisasemanzi' (cow skin is shaped whilst it's still wet), this may be a truth but in living I am realizing that perhaps we may need to adapt use of chemicals to fix the folding that was not done so well. Perhaps it was done well yet somewhere along the way it has gotten messed up. Being in my 20s I am surrounded by a lot of peers who are trying to figure this life thing out.  I can attest to the fact that most have honestly told me that they do not have a clue what it means to be a father to another human being mostly because they have had absent fathers, presently absent fathers, or no fathers at all. This brand of fathers of the future holds the hope that when...