Category: Books
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The Missing Dimension in Local Education
Cuthbert Dube: (Photo Credit: Supersport) Book: The Quality of Citizenship Education in Harare Author: Oswell Namasasu Publisher: Scholars’ Press (2013) Zimbabwe’s educational panels need to touch base and perform again. Our schools need to correct their slanted emphasis on education which teaches citizens how to make a living not how to live. While education is…
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Celebrating Zim’s Women Musicians
Women Musicians Book: Women Musicians in Zimbabwe Author: Joyce Jenje Makwenda Publisher: Joyce Jenje Makwenda (2013) Music, that moody food for those who trade in love as Shakespeare says, is cultural staple fare in Zimbabwe. From the inception of township music in the 1930s to the present, the industry has not short supplied aesthetes who…
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Zimbabwe as Seen Through Poetic Lenses
Ghetto Diary and Other Poems Book: Ghetto Diary and Other Poems Editor: Munyaradzi Z. Mbire Publisher: ZPH Publishers (2011) Zimbabwean poetry is a cosmopolitan office. Few local poets seek to make a conventional impression, hence the counterpoint of angles which inheres in the tradition. The tradition is a melting pot where individual perceptions, native sensibilities,…
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Repackaging Indigenous Languages for the Digital Age
Maidei Language is the principal apparatus in the laboratories of culture. It is the interface by which a culture finds expression, transmission, diffusion, sustenance, development, perpetuity and regeneration. When language slouches towards obscurity, culture, as the corporate repository of knowledge, values, meanings, experience, customs, relations, roles, attitudes, beliefs and intellectual achievement, faces extinction. The patriarch…
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Mungoshi and Mabasa Jointly Win NAMA for Outstanding Fiction Book
Ignatius Mabasa (Photo Credit: The Herald) Charles Mungoshi’s Branching Streams Flow in the Dark and Ignatius Mabasa’s Imbwa Yemunhu jointly landed the NAMA Best Fiction on Saturday. The category was tightly contested as all the nominees have drawn considerable acclaim. The other nominee Spiwe Mahachi-Harper recently won a Zimbabwe Music and Arts Awards gong in…
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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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Piracy Upends Book Sector
(Photo Credit: Jane Kennedy Sutton) A double-barreled assault threatens the survival of the conventional book value chain. Authors and publishers, who are already struggling for relevance in the face of a lukewarm reading culture, are being fleeced of their dues by piracy. Book piracy, which involves the replication of copyrighted literature through scanning, photocopying, printing…
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Postscript to a Lost Generation
Half of a Yellow Sun Book: Half of a Yellow SunAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Fourth Estate (2006) Half of a Yellow Sun sealed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s credentials in the canon of great African literature. The novel is not only a riveting stroke of hindsight but also a compendium of pertinent African questions. While most writers mellow…
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Reframing Beauty and Brevity
Writing Africa Book: Writing Africa in the Short Story Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu Publisher: James Currey (2013) A fresh stimulus is in the line for the reception of the short story as a wholesome and autonomous genre. Writing Africa in the Short Story, comes across as a graphic compendium on African short fiction, invoking the beauty…
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Marcus Garvey – Retrospect
Marcus Garvey (Photo Credit: Africa is a Country) Marcus Garvey remains one of the keynote influences of the African renaissance. From the streets of Harlem, far and wide , the grand patriarch of Pan-Africanist thought commanded the arena with successive generations under his inspiration. The Provisional President of Africa, as Garvey was known to his…
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