Category: Essays
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Memory Chirere’s “Useless Book”
Memory Chirere Book: Bhuku Risina Basa Author: Memory Chirere Publisher: Bhabhu Books (2014) ISBN: 978-0-7974-5815-4 If simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, as Steve Jobs said, Memory Chirere may well be Zimbabwe’s most sophisticated writer. Chirere has once again affirmed his place among the country’s most highly regarded writers, this time with his debut poetry anthology,…
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Rukudzo Onai Speaks on New Book
Mushava’s new book Zimbabwe’s literary thoroughbred Stanely Mushava this week released his debut poetry anthology, In Memory of the Future. In Memory of the Future, which the poet says was written to spread love to all humanity and wage peace to all nations, is currently available as an e-book on Mazwi Online Store. Mushava shares…
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Secular Influence in Christian Entertainment
Frank Edwards The blending of gospel themes with secular lingo, beats or genres to enhance reception has divided opinion in Christian circles. The development has raised eyebrows among those who fear that the co-opting of “outside influences” compromises gospel purity. Whatever the case, code-switching the Bible and secular patterns of expression is in vogue. Proponents…
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Presidents Who Were Favoured by the Muses
Kwame Nkrumah Poetry with a nationalist accent is one of the most enduring monuments of African literature. A thread of love letters – impassioned, potent, poetic endearments to Africa – was unwound at the high tide of liberation. Europe has commissioned poet laureates to give her official occasions the rhyme factor. In Africa, a coterie of…
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Mellow Moods for Christmas
A Christmas Carol movie Book: A Christmas Carol Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Chapman and Hall (1843) Christmas flares up colour, vista and melody across every nook and cranny of town and parish. It is the climax of the calendar with a fusing function for different entities – picturesque family reunions, devotional awakenings, capitalist windfalls and…
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