Category: Culture
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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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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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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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Piracy Upends Book Sector
Men of letters are often at home at the base of the class pyramid. Figureheads of world literature, notably Leo Tolstoy, Emile Dickinson, William Blake and Dambudzo Marechera, invoked poverty and isolation to make a statement. The occasional appearance of a writer-tramp who defies convention and plies his trade from the peripheries is a…
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Homage to Migrant Labourers
Fraternity is one road less travelled. The dispersion of Africans far and wide to eke out sustainable livelihoods is a leap into the night, with millions detached from their cradles longing for an anchor in the face of alienation and deprivation. Notable feats, from the outset of history, owe their actualisation to seldom acknowledged contributions…
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New Literary Magazine to Be Launched
A new literary magazine is set to be launched as a lifeline for budding writers who are struggling to break into print through established mediums. The Write Mag will be edited by acclaimed Zimbabwean author, literary critic and academic Memory Chirere and published by Write Africa, an organisation bent on promoting writing and reading…
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