The African City

3 open · 2 being built · 1 planned

A city of small careful things.

Folktales told the way they were told to us. An honest look at raising a first baby. Coffee from the farms that grow it. Each one gets its own district, and the city keeps growing.

Every building below is a district. Hover one, or tap it, to see what is inside.

Zimbabwe Nyika Ngano Dzokurara Parenting Open Coffee Being built Fashion Night Being built Sadza Planned

The districts

Each one is its own site. Nothing here is a demo.

Nyika

Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe hub. Everything with roots in that particular soil lives here.

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Dzokurara

Ngano

Eight bedtime folktales in Shona and English. Hare and Baboon, the girl and the water spirit, and why Baboon has a red bottom.

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Parenting

The Load Ledger. Why the 50/50 split fails new parents, and a twenty-minute exercise that maps what really drains each of you.

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Coffee

African coffee, traced from the farms that grow it to the cup in front of you.

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Fashion Night

The designers, the runway, and the night itself.

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Sadza

Food from home. What to cook, how it is cooked, and who taught you.

Planned

What is happening

Updated 31 Aug 2026

Parenting 31 Aug 2026

The Load Ledger is open

A new district for exhausted new parents: why the 50/50 split fails, and a twenty-minute exercise that maps what actually drains each of you. The exercise prints a plan for the fridge.

Do the exercise

Ngano 24 Aug 2026

Eight tales, told until sleep comes

Ngano Dzokurara now holds eight bedtime folktales in Shona and English, six to seven minutes each. Sarungano anoti: Paivepo. Iwe woti: Dzepfunde.

Choose tonight’s tale

Ngano 24 Aug 2026

Send us a tale you were told

If you know a story from your grandmother that is not in the collection, it can be added. Shona, Ndebele or English, however you remember it.

Add a tale

Coffee 10 Aug 2026

Coffee district, ground broken

Work has started on the coffee district: growers, roasts, and how a bag gets from a farm to a Swiss kitchen without the story being flattened along the way.

Take a look

Fashion Night 28 Jul 2026

Fashion Night is being rebuilt

The African Fashion Night district is getting a proper home: designers, the runway, and the night itself, documented rather than just advertised.

See the work in progress