Muzawazi’s book to honour Africa’s greats

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Muzawazi said the publication seeks to “gather, publish, promote and celebrate the feats and high achievements of the African peoples since records began to the present.
“BAR will serve the purpose of bringing before the world’s eyes achievements of the highest order by Africans in the fields of science, the humanities, sport, statecraft and religion, among other disciplines,” he said.
He said the publication would go a long way in helping the continent and the world at large in not only celebrating the achievements by Africans but also in changing the perception of Africa as a continent riddled by multitudes of ills. 
“BAR’s mission is to celebrate the greatest deeds by the African people while also serving as a positive change agent against modern media portrayal of the African continent as home to war, disease, hunger, and corruption.
“This negative publicity over the centuries has created an impartial image of the continent while drowning the contemporary and historical achievements of African peoples and civilisations over millennia,” Muzawazi said.
He said the destiny of Africans lay in their own hands and none but themselves had the power to make their lives better.
“(Africans) themselves must give a voice and accentuation to their own accomplishments and contributions to global civilisation,” he explained. The editor-in-chief of the Book of African Records will be aided by an international advisory board consisting of experts on Africa from Africa and beyond.
Muzawazi said BAR’s headquarters will be based in Zimbabwe while field operations across the African continent will be run by correspondents in selected satellite offices on a regional basis.
“Such correspondents are responsible for the research and collection of information on the inventions, innovations, records, feats and achievements of the African people in their respective regions.
“The African Mobility Organisation, a Zimbabwean trust that seeks to put the youth at the forefront of African development, will recruit young African researchers to accentuate the role of African youth in the continent’s development,” Muzawazi said.
He added that the collection and compilation of raw data will start in October and run until December next year, which will culminate in the release of the first publication around mid-2014.
Muzawazi is a record-breaking Zimbabwean who in 2011 was selected as one of the ‘’Ten Outstanding Young Zimbabweans’’ by the Junior Chamber International.
In 2003 at 19 he became the world record holder for the longest lecture in the world ahead of an Indian professor.
Muzawazi subsequently became the first Zimbabwean to enter the Guinness Book of Records, a distinction he still holds to date.
In 2010, Muzawazi becomeg the first black African ever to cross the African continent on a road expedition across 21 African countries, putting him in the same league as explorers like David Livingstone and Henry the Navigator of Portugal.
The same year the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority appointed Muzawazi Ambassador of Tourism for Zimbabwe.