Tribute to the Mufuka Foundation
AN unmistakable gentleman walked into the office of the Masvingo Mirror newspaper sometime in 2006. I was then an Advertising manager at the paper and did not have an idea who he was. I was informed he was Professor Ken Mufuka from the US. Prof Mufuka then penned a wildly popular Letter from America and he would come and collect his copy whenever he visited Masvingo on holiday. It was really a big honour for me to have a chance to meet this legendary writer, academic and philanthropist in person. Prof Mufuka soon left and it never dawned in my mind that I had come across my future mentor and a person whose ideas and generosity would impact me and lot of other people in Zimbabwe. However it was only after I had left the Mirror and had established Shekinah Media and started advocating for the development of Masvingo that Prof Mufuka got interested in the work that I was doing. The second time we got in touch happened after I hosted an Investors Conference in 2012 where I had invited Dr