{"id":542,"date":"2014-06-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmushava.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/07\/mungoshi-mabasa-in-joint-win\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:05:38","slug":"mungoshi-and-mabasa-jointly-win-nama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Mungoshi and Mabasa Jointly Win NAMA for Outstanding Fiction Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 1em;text-align: left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.herald.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IGNATIUS-MABASA.jpg\" height=\"266\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"400\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Ignatius Mabasa (Photo Credit: The Herald)<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12pt;text-align: left\"><span>Charles Mungoshi\u2019s <i>Branching Streams Flow in the Dark<\/i> and Ignatius Mabasa\u2019s <i>Imbwa Yemunhu<\/i> jointly landed the NAMA Best Fiction on Saturday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span>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 the United Kingdom for her third novel, <i>Footprints in the Mists of Time<\/i> which also has the distinction of being the longest local novel.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span class=\"null\"><span>In his acceptance speech, Mabasa thanked God and said: \u201cI didn\u2019t know that this dog will follow me to Bulawayo,\u201d a pun on the title of his book. Farayi Mungoshi received on behalf of his father.<\/span><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span>Both <i>Imbwa Yemunhu<\/i> and <i>Branching Streams<\/i>\u00a0are highly experimental offerings from two men regarded master and disciple. Mabasa, who is considered Mungoshi\u2019s understudy in the experimental Shona novel, has evidently come of age.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span>Literary critic Memory Chirere said the tie was evocative of the 1979 Guardian Prize for Fiction when Dambudzo Marechera\u2019s <i>House of Hunger<\/i>\u00a0was a joint winner with Neil<span class=\"null\"> Jordan\u2019s <i>Night in Tunisia<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-align: justify\"><span><i>Imbwa Yemunhu<\/i>\u00a0is Mabasa\u2019s third novel following <i>Mapenzi<\/i>\u00a0and <i>Ndafa Here?<\/i>\u00a0It revolves around the life of Musavhaya, a slave to women and alcohol, struggling with the futility of his life, lost in escapism and on a fluctuating quest forspiritual fulfillment.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span><i>Branching Streams<\/i>, which was at one time questioned as an apocryphal work for its stark contrast with Mungoshi\u2019s early work, is Mungoshi\u2019s fifth novel and second English novel. It deals with the questions of denial, stigmatization and rejection among people living with HIV\/AIDS.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span>Mabasa\u2019s book jolts the readers with such characters as Simon Chimbetu while Mungoshi\u2019s novel sets out in the form of a letter by the embattled protagonist emptying her heart to a friend. Both artists successfully execute the stream of consciousness device, which has been the mainstay of some their previous Shona novels.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span>Solomon Mwapangidza shrugged off competition from fellow beginners TsungiChiwara\u2019s <i>Reflections of the Heart\u00a0<\/i>and TinotendaMpofu\u2019s <i>Zvirivanhu<\/i>\u00a0to land the Outstanding First Creative Published Work with his debut <i>Rebel Soldier<\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt;text-align: justify\"><span>Fortune Tazvivinga\u2019s <i>River God Unyaminyami\u00a0<\/i>won the Outstanding Children\u2019s Book ahead of Thoko and the Cannibal by Mzana Mthimukuklu and Bernard Ndlovu and <i>Kolobeja 2: IzinganekwanezikaMthwakazi<\/i>\u00a0by PathisaNyathi.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 18pt;margin-top: 12pt;text-align: justify\"><span>The dominance of novels in all the literary categories is an indictment on NAMA to broaden its reach to the disappearing poetry and drama genres.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignatius Mabasa (Photo Credit: The Herald) Charles Mungoshi\u2019s Branching Streams Flow in the Dark and Ignatius Mabasa\u2019s 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 the United Kingdom for her third novel, Footprints in the Mists of Time which also has the distinction of being the longest local novel. In his acceptance speech, Mabasa thanked God and said: \u201cI didn\u2019t know that this dog will follow me to Bulawayo,\u201d a pun on the title of his book. Farayi Mungoshi received on behalf of his father. Both Imbwa Yemunhu and Branching Streams\u00a0are highly experimental offerings from two men regarded master and disciple. Mabasa, who is considered Mungoshi\u2019s understudy in the experimental Shona novel, has evidently come of age. Literary critic Memory Chirere said the tie was evocative of the 1979 Guardian Prize for Fiction when Dambudzo Marechera\u2019s House of Hunger\u00a0was a joint winner with Neil Jordan\u2019s Night in Tunisia. Imbwa Yemunhu\u00a0is Mabasa\u2019s third novel following Mapenzi\u00a0and Ndafa Here?\u00a0It revolves around the life of Musavhaya, a slave to women and alcohol, struggling with the futility of his life, lost in escapism and on a fluctuating quest forspiritual fulfillment. Branching Streams, which was at one time questioned as an apocryphal work for its stark contrast with Mungoshi\u2019s early work, is Mungoshi\u2019s fifth novel and second English novel. It deals with the questions of denial, stigmatization and rejection among people living with HIV\/AIDS. Mabasa\u2019s book jolts the readers with such characters as Simon Chimbetu while Mungoshi\u2019s novel sets out in the form of a letter by the embattled protagonist emptying her heart to a friend. Both artists successfully execute the stream of consciousness device, which has been the mainstay of some their previous Shona novels. Solomon Mwapangidza shrugged off competition from fellow beginners TsungiChiwara\u2019s Reflections of the Heart\u00a0and TinotendaMpofu\u2019s Zvirivanhu\u00a0to land the Outstanding First Creative Published Work with his debut Rebel Soldier. Fortune Tazvivinga\u2019s River God Unyaminyami\u00a0won the Outstanding Children\u2019s Book ahead of Thoko and the Cannibal by Mzana Mthimukuklu and Bernard Ndlovu and Kolobeja 2: IzinganekwanezikaMthwakazi\u00a0by PathisaNyathi. The dominance of novels in all the literary categories is an indictment on NAMA to broaden its reach to the disappearing poetry and drama genres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mungoshi and Mabasa Jointly Win NAMA for Outstanding Fiction Book | Blockspace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=542\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mungoshi and Mabasa Jointly Win NAMA for Outstanding Fiction Book | Blockspace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ignatius Mabasa (Photo Credit: The Herald) Charles Mungoshi\u2019s Branching Streams Flow in the Dark and Ignatius Mabasa\u2019s Imbwa Yemunhu jointly landed the NAMA Best Fiction on Saturday. 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