I love these Radio Ad Voices: 1. Hakeem the Dream, Capital FM Hakeem has a melodious and lively voice that is pleasant to the ears. 2. Dr. Mitch Egwang (Uncle Mitch) Uncle Mitch has a fast talking and humorous voice. (By the way, even when he is speaking French, Luo and Luganda. Not that he has done adverts in these languages.) 3. DJ Ronnie, Capital FM DJ Ronnie’s mellow, smooth, deep and powerful baritone voice makes you feel safe. 4. Ernest Wasake, Vision Voice Ernest (Dennis and Esquire’s brother) has a clear, cultured and silver-tongued voice that grabs your attention and makes you picture a man whose looks would turn heads. If you asked me, he sounds more like Dennis than Esquire because the latter’s voice has some tranquillity in it similar to that of a modest man. 5. Hussein Lumumba Hussein’s voice is slightly nasal. Like someone with a cold and yet at the same time, it’s with clear pronunciation. He still sounds smooth when he speaks French, Swahili and Lingala in normal co...

Imagine me as a radio news reader, a news tale before me on paper, complex words in teensy-weensy print for the Obama Times . Create mentally a picture of my Facebook friend whom I have never met and who owns the Obama Times, turning over pages where I should read, since I seem to use so much effort in reading the long sentences. Then I stumbled on the word Tsvangirai and pronounced it like I have heard it on the news chang-girr-IGH (-ch as in church; -ng-g as in finger; -irr as in mirror; -igh as in high). The pronunciation of this word has stirred up public and media interest, inside and outside the BBC, because of different opinions of how the Shona -ts v cluster should be pronounced in English. Then I awake. I send a text message to my friends about the dream, and one of them responds, 'Maybe there is something to the dream. Email your Facebook friend about it and see.' However, after flipping my mind through my dream, I realised that dreams can be a sham. There should h...