Category: Books
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ZIBF @ 31: Promises and Perils
Charles Mungoshi The Zimbabwe International Book Fair spread its turf to Bulawayo last weekend for the regional edition of the festival. The book fair ran under the theme “Indigenous Languages, Literature, Art and Knowledge Systems of Africa” at the City Hall. Writers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers at the workshop engaged the theme with a varied…
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Shimmer Chinodya on Religion and Scepticism
Shimmer Chinodya (Photo Credit: The Herald) Book: Chioniso and Other Stories Author: Shimmer Chinodya Publisher: Weaver Press (2012) Religion occupies a vast expanse in world literature. Antithetical perspectives on the questions of faith and fulfillment run the tapestry of the tradition across the lapse of dispensations. If literature is to discharge its normative function as…
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Recollections of Journalism in the Line of Fire
Creatures at the Top Book: Creatures at the Top Author: Stephen Mpofu Publisher: Spiderwize (2012) Stephen Mpofu belongs to that rare breed of Zimbabwe’s pioneer journalists for whom the newsroom was a vocation not a default option. Back in the day, journalism did not occur naturally on the inventory of professions available to blacks. By…
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Terence Ranger and the Zimbabwean Nationalists
Writing Revolt Book: Writing Revolt Author: Terence Ranger Publisher: Weaver Press (2013) Terence Ranger’s latest memoir “Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67” is a vastly riveting account which tags the historian in the mid-century revolutionary ferment. “Of the making of many books about Zimbabwe there seems to be no end,” Ranger observes in…
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Zimbabwean Writers Hit Zero Return?
A.C Moyo (Photo Credit: The Herald) Prolific novelist, playwright and screenwriter Aaron Chiundura Moyo has indicated that he will cap his pen and pursue other interests if nothing is done to demobilise piracy. Piracy has emerged as the principal death-knell against the arts sector. Literature has been grounded to zero profitability, with no significant measure…
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Dark Cloud Hangs Over ZIBF
Musaemura Zimunya (Photo Credit: The Herald) The Masvingo edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair which was slated for May 30 to 31 was cancelled on the last minute due to lack of funding. ZIBF chairperson Musaemura Zimunya told stakeholders on Wednesday that sponsors had withdrawn funding on short notice. He said the organisers unsuccessfully…
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Poor Funding Threatens ZIBF
ZIBF board members and delegates (Photo Credit: Zimbojam) The Bulawayo edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) was almost cancelled after the foreign donor withdrew funding on short notice. ZIBF chairperson Musaemura revealed that the regional fair had run aground if not for publishers who jostled in with contributions in time to save the…
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ZIBF Moves to Curtail Piracy
Pirated books (Photo Credit: Violet Crush) The Anti-Piracy Focus Group convened by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) has announced a multi-sectoral plan to curtail book piracy. The focus group has roped in police, city council, border control officials, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), the judiciary, publishers, booksellers, authors, librarians and education ministries to stamp…
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Land of the Brief and the Beautiful– Chirere’s “Tudikidik”
Memory Chirere (Photo Credit: Jan Bibliothek) Book: Tudikidiki Author: Memory Chirere Publisher: Priority Projects Publishing (2007) Memory Chirere’s dynamic toolkit reframes a familiar world with touches of humour and novelty in his second short story collection Tudikidiki. The stories, fit to a template which equates less with more, are at once tantalising, frustrating and amusing.…
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Zimbabwean Books Need Digital Reflow
Ndiko Kupindana Kwemazuva The digital revolt is in vogue. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are vastly effacing traditional life patterns. It is a virtual new world. The orbit of the hourglass prefigures a dynamic, new order of computer-generated possibilities. Tragically, though, the changes are taking shape out of the rubble of the traditional scheme of…
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