Katapa is a beloved Zambian cuisine, the cassava leaves are picked pounded, cooked with or without peanuts always with customary tomato and onion because no Zambian vegetable is complete without it.
Cassava leaves contain chemicals called cyanogenic glycosides, improperly prepared katapa can release cyanide into the body when ingested.
Sometimes creativity takes this journey from ideation to manifestation;
We are an accumulation of the stories we heard from our family, our friends once we began socialising outside the house, the books we read, movies we watch and the music we listen to and stories we tell ourselves.
When time to create arises we take all of these stories and filter what is unhelpful, we add myth and the customary desire for completion.
Creativity like katapa relies on patience and intentionality.
The mind is a garden filled with trees that bear words as fruits and barks made of ideas. Sometimes overcoming creative blocks is to intentionally go into this garden and pick what is ripe and ready and what can be cooked.
Coming here like this yields more sentences than hoping and waiting for the block to dissipate at its own will, your openness and willingness means you can create things out of the ordinary.
The things we like and enjoy may take a little bit more time and effort
Somethings require we exercise our choice-making powers and creation is no different.
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