Ethiopia’s Bole International Airport, located in capital Addis Ababa, has been markedly expanded in the last few years. It is now home to the largest airport cargo hub in Africa. The new passenger terminal, inaugurated in 2019, has tripled the airport’s capacity from 7 to 22 million passengers, making it the second biggest airport (by capacity) on the continent. These major milestones in the airport’s history are closely tied to the ambitious expansion plans of the country’s

‘Bulawayo has stood tall across the country as a better organised and cleanest city. From garbage collection, road and traffic maintenance (traffic lights) and good driving behaviour,’ “Skies” remains a city to reckon with.’[1] A running thread in generations of residents that have called Bulawayo home has been their deep veneration and steadfast belief in its status as an exceptional habitat. Exemplary epochs of this exceptionalism are traced from the time King Lobengula est