Do you know Nyoni?

So there we were drinking Mountain Dew tea,( that is the type with the natural tea leaves that you boil for a minute to extract the rich taste) and someone started these funny jokes. Bigs up will usually go to Dunkhuvha , brother we cannot do without you!I dont know if its tea that causes people to open up and start revive their minds to think of these things or its the biscuits that go with it.

For the first joke he starts and says;

"there was this man who had left his village of Murambinda to work in the city of Harare for a year. As usual with us, he paid a visit to the village for the Christmas holiday.Laden with groceries (my guess will be Sun jam,Buttercup margarine, a dozen loaves of bread and Heinz Tomato Ketchup),he begins to feel that he is better than the village folks.

On Christmas day,he put his shirt with an Obama picture and went to drink beer with the village folks. He just had to show them that living in Harare had transformed him so he begins to brag about his knowledge of the internet,Facebook,CNN,Gaddafi,Tony Blair, Koffi Annan,UN,and all the great man you can think of.He tells them how Obama won the elections, how Undertaker won the belt from Edge and about Chris Brown's fight with Rihanna. The old village folks are just looking at him perplexed because they would rather prefer any talks about the NGOs in the area and food aid.

As he goes on bragging and all this time a tiny man is looking at him silently.Then this tiny man says to him, "do you know a man called Nyoni?".
The bragger says, "what does this Nyoni deal with? what is he famous for?Does he appear on CNN?or the Herald? Is he on facebook?"
So the tiny man replies,
"You dont know Nyoni? How can you not know Nyoni but know about Obama and Koffi Annan? You are busy knowing worthless men from other nations far away from here and you don't even bother about your village?How can you know someone from far away and yet you dont know this Nyoni who is busy with your wife?"............."

I used to wonder when I was growing up why the English ladies , those from the rich families would invite each other for tea. I used to read about it and those tea parties used to be big events.

There is something that happens when you invite someone for tea and biscuits or cakes.I am talking about that sister or brother at the fellowship or church you dont normally speak to.Try it and you will be amazed at how much they open up after the first cup.Is it the tea, the bread or the biscuits?Even the apostles in the book of Acts occassionally met after the fastings and prayers to break bread.Think of freshly brewed Tanganda tea, Stella Tea, Five Roses and Rooibos tea.

We started this ministry as a joke, and later has begun to grow and attract a sizeable number of brothers who I cant really say are drawn by the sweetness of the Tanganda or Mountain Dew leaves, or the Red Seal sugar but maybe it is those jokes that begin to flow from the sweetened tongues. Breaking of bread fellowship was initiated by a need to fellowship with African homies who were homesick when we are here in this Asian nation, where 2% of the population are Christians.Being Christian brothers and sisters we were seeking a way to avoid being homesick by gathering on Fridays midnight, each person with their own cup and plates of bread and banana cakes on the table.Besides the movie haouses are far away and expensive for some of us as we are not allowed to work.

Give a cup of tea to someone like Duncan,Zave(Exzevia),Gary,Kaza,Clem,Ron,Farai,Deacon Ken,Illay,Bishop (Eddy),Ken,Collins and you will get a revelations. There is one about Peter who discovered that there was a boy with lunchbox when they told Jesus that there is a boy with 2fishes and five loaves.Some wanted to know what Peter was looking for in the boy's lunch box. Then comes the famous Nyoni story. Usadherere mazimbo.
i will tell you more next time abut the new revelations.This was just an introduction.