Category: Books
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How Gwenyagitare Got His Groove
By Onai Mushava Once upon a time in Zimbabwe, a hacker was someone who bent over mbira keys, thumbed his way into your soul and messed around till time meant nothing to you. Since then, generations of lead guitarists from Stanley Manatsa to Trust Samende have made their case as the new keepers of the…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens up on Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” Mnangagwa
By Onai Mushava Zimbabwean soldiers allegedly raped 17 women and brutally assaulted many others on sensitive organs during the state crackdown on protests against a 150 % fuel price increase last month. Government has denied the claims of the women, who are currently in NGO safe houses, citing that only one of them has made…
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What Does Onai Mushava Want? (Interview)
Below, Phillip Chidavaenzi (PC) interviews award-winning author and journalist Onai Mushava (OM) about Mushava’s creative methods and about his forthcoming poetry collection called Rhyme and Resistance. His first poetry collection, Survivors Café won The Outstanding Fiction NAMA award in 2018. PC: How does you creative process work? OM: I start with a feeling. Let’s say love, sadness or settling scores…
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Charles Mungoshi, Through the Eyes of His Peers
Acclaimed Zimbabwean novelist Charles Mungoshi died on 16 February 2019 after a 10-year fight with a neurological condition. Fellow writers and publishers share their encounters with the African literary giant whose many accomplishments included works of translation, breaking the colonial chokehold on education and co-founding the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.
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Philani Nyoni Writes in the Moment for All Time
When I first saw poet Philani Nyoni performing, I was torn between my patriotic duty to feed him to police dogs and my immediate admiration for his densely allusive craft. A season of protest had just passed – smoke clearing away from the streets, and hashtag activists retiring into the fashion police – but Nyoni…
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Zimbabwe to reintroduce Literature Bureau
Aaron Chiundura Moyo, the highly regarded Zimbabwean novelist and television producer, has love-hate memories of the Literature Bureau but pictures it as a potential stimulus for the country’s rundown book sector. Moyo’s from journey a raw village wordsmith to one of the foremost names in Zimbabwean writing started at the Literature Bureau, which operated as…
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Zimbabwe Reintroducing Literature Bureau to Promote Indigenous Languages
Zimbabwe is preparing to reintroduce the Literature Bureau to promote the publication of literature in indigenous minority languages.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens Up About Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean soldiers allegedly raped 17 women and brutally assaulted many others during the state crackdown on protests against a 150 percent fuel price increase in January 2019. Government has denied these claims, but legendary writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has weighed in on the side of the alleged victims, while opening up about her own…
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Alexander Kanengoni on the Price of Independence
Echoing Silences, the riveting, mystic and brutal reconstruction of the liberation struggle by Alexander Kanengoni, is not merely a work of hindsight. The Chimurenga classic is the burden of the past on the present, the bearing of the present on the future, the arrow that courses every direction. It is a multi-layered reminder of the…
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Chinua Achebe on the Civic Mantle of the Artist
Add caption Chinua Achebe’s last book, “There was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra,” provoked charges of political heresy. The ethnic drift of the memoir polarised reception and reincarnated old hostilities, at least in the rhetorical domain. Achebe was accused of reconstructing the history into a partisan frame, an inevitable charge given that he…
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