Category: Books
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Zimbabwean Literature’s Finest
Memory Chirere (Photo Credit: The Herald) Memory Chirere’s “Bhuku Risina Basa Nekuti Rakanyorwa Masikati” on Saturday won the National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) accolade for the Outstanding Fiction Book, affirming the dominance of local languages in the category. Chirere’s debut poetry anthology was closely contested by Emmanuel Sigauke’s short story collection “Mukoma’s Marriage and Other…
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George Kahari’s 50-Year Journey in Literature
Maurice Vambe, George Kahari and Memory Chirere (Photo Credit: KwaChirere) “Nothing good can come out of Zimbabwe,” has become the byword of the day. We lack an aggressive estimation of our potential as a nation.Pessimism runs the tapestry of our national outlook. We justify this self-deprecation by playing second fiddle to others on many platforms.…
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Internet – Friend or Foe of Creative Writing?
Arnold “So Profound” Chirimika “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” When John Keats, absorbed in the mesmeric notes of nature, made this observation, he had certainly not foreseen the love-hate relationship of the Internet and creative writing. 130 years on, literature is still alive and viral, not so much through the hedge choruses…
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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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SOS for Literature in Indigenous Languages
Tsumo neMadimikira Zimbabwean literature has a wealth of indigenous narratives which merit greater appreciation and a durable shelf life. At high tide, local languages cross-fertilised proverbial lore and individual creativity to create one of the proudly Zimbabwean success stories in local arts. There was a time when the writers kept the reading public posted with…
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Interview with Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Tinashe Mushakavanhu Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (TM) is one of the better-known “born-free” Zimbabwean writers and academics. He has edited Emerging Perspectives on Chenjerai Hove: Literature, Politics and Culture, Remembering Marechera, and State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry and contributed to several anthologies including Writing Africa in the Short Story, Writing Now: More Stories from Zimbabwe, A…
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Stereotype vs. Reality: Rethinking Issue-Based Literature
Helon Habila (Photo Credit: Parresia Publishers) Poverty is in the orbit of controversy. A point of order has been raised with respect to the direction contemporary African literature seems to be heading. The presentation of the continent as perpetually conflict-riven and impoverished is eliciting a critical backlash. Dissenters are stepping into the line of fire…
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Afropolitan Symphony – Voices from Abroad
Beavan Tapureta (Photo Credit: KwaChirere) Book: Drums of Africa Editor: Kennedy Madhombiro Publisher: Diaspora Publishers (2013) Drums of Africa, an anthology of contemporary Zimbabwean poetry, is a trove of artistic nuggets, framed and polished for a range of impressions. The poets, local and diasporan, converge from different backgrounds, to address with different poetic implements, conditions…
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Politics, Corporate Conspiracy and Intellectual Prostitution
Tolstoy’s Confession The occasion is a mid-century writers’ retreat. Out in remote detachment from the corporate scheme of life, the writers empty their hearts one to another about the dirty laundry which comes with their trade. “Strike for Life” author John Swinton steps up the podium and laments, Jeremiah-style, the degeneration of the writer from…
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Anatomy of Madness
Mabasa’s award-winning novel Book: Imbwa Yemunhu Author: Ignatius Mabasa Publisher: Bhabhu Books (2013) Ignatius T. Mabasa’s new novel “Imbwa Yemunhu” is an unsettling anatomy of the human condition. Mabasa fashions his protagonist into a laboratory dummy whom he dissects with a range of technical scalpels to demonstrate mankind’s struggle with the futility of life, diversion and…
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