Uvaranomwe
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NHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-Harper
Spiwe Mahachi-Harper akadzoka kuZimbabwe muna2017 ndokusvikopaza garaji rake kumaflats ekuWestgate. Zvaipisa mabhuku ake ane mukurumbira, Footprints in the Mists of Time (2013) naTales from the…
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JERERO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange
Stanlake Samkange akavhurira Mashonaland musuwo weyunivhesiti paakatora dhigiri rayo rekutanga muna1947 paFort Hare University College. Kudzidza pachikomo kwaiera makore aya, zvekuti mbiri hombe yemagamba emanovhero…
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When Dambudzo Marechera Met Aaron Chiundura Moyo – A Brief History of Zimbabwe’s Language Wars
In newly independent Zimbabwe, language wars erupted between homecoming writers who had made their names in the language of exile and writers who had worked…
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MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”
Catching Feelings is a South African romantic comedy, written, directed and led by Kagiso Lediga. The Netflix thinkpic brings together sex, race and literature as…
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Juju, Ganja and Mafia at Dynamos
Zimbabwe’s global image has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but largely underestimated the place of memoir as a long night of the…
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More Dambudzo Marechera Letters – To Karen, Flora, Amelia and Samantha (Part 1)
Dambudzo Marechera channelled his Oxford swag, Rastaman aura and leftist virtue signalling to chat up White writer-types. His stated preference for White girlfriends has been…
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Zimbabwe’s Game of Totems
Zimbabwe has two infamous iconoclasts. Nelson Chamisa and Dambudzo Marechera. One is a Pentecostal dream-twister, and the other, an atheist prankster. Both are on record…
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BOOK REVIEW| Mukana Press’s Old Love Skin
Old Love Skin, a pan-African poetry collection, finds new voices summoning divinity where they please, and turning history pictures to the wall to fill in…
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INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe
A year after Munhumumwe’s “Makorokoto” won him Radio 2’s first independence-era number one song, his cousin Zimunya published “And Now the Poets Speak”, co-edited with…
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Zimbabwe International Book Fair Flexes Proof of Life After Covid-19 Break
Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) came to town last week (from 30 September to 1 October) after a two-year COVID-19 break. The book fair did…
Gandanga uchariziva here ukariona, ukariona Zimbabwe yaro (Thomas Mapfumo, “Chitima cheRusununguko”, 1980)
Sororemvumba
Zita rangu ndini Sororemvumba guma rinovirima unga. Ukaona Sororemvumba waona vara resere seri kweuvaranomwe. Waonazve Dzivaguru Dambudzo Marechera, Mudyanadzo Mordikai Hamutyinei, Khumbul’amagwala Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Muremba Jacques Derrida, Mushawasha Joyce Jenje, Sarirambi Mhoze Chiwashira, Gorerazvo Stan Mudenge naSekuru vangu, Munhuwekure Janfeck Chekure. Sororemvumba rinotema, rinodada, harizezi! Warihwaka!
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Maonero Enyu
The pen does dance, Chasura.
Thanks a lot, Elder. I will be at it.
Thank you and I really respect your input,as I was friends with Albert Kapondoro and Philani Dube and indeed, they…
Soro rako chizinga chehuchi. Huya hwasvisvi, hwemvumvira. Batai basa muzukuru mukuru.
That was a good piece of poetry … keep up the extraordinary work.
it is more than obvious that people in Zimbabwe are more interested in circular music. the moment an artist switches…
THE GREAT HERO OF TRUE PAN AFRICANISM
Thanks, Babamukuru.
This is a great read for any sober thinking African.
Thanks, Vimbai. Will be waiting to hear your own assessment of the album.
Awesome stuff, I have not listened to this latest offering but will certainly take time to,
Zvikamu
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