Category: Uvaranomwe
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BOOK REVIEW| Chigozie Obioma’s “The Fishermen”
Click or not: BOOK REVIEW| Chigozie Obioma’s “The Fishermen”Although he has already been called the heir of Chinua Achebe, Obioma’s mastery of the questions of the day and rich blend of influences uploads into the African canon a mythic feat uniquely his own. An undercurrent of tragedy courses through the novel, several layers of memory foreboding loss and destruction. …
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Bishop of Bohemia – Onai Mushava on Living the Poet’s Life
Click or not: Bishop of Bohemia – Onai Mushava on Living the Poet’s LifeI have dedicated the afternoon to picking the brain of award-winning author and journalist, Stanely Mushava. A new first name, Onai, has just replaced his given name, on his new 2019 book, Rhyme and Resistance. He is finishing his stint as tutorial assistant in the NUST Journalism and Media Studies. Somewhat leaner than his 28… …
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Charles Mungoshi, through the Eyes of His Peers
Click or not: Charles Mungoshi, through the Eyes of His PeersTo hear fellow writers tell it, Mungoshi’s first language was laughter; and his physical address, the habit-forming bottle. He stars in memories of young love, and artist encounters in Zengeza and Kambuzuma shebeens as a man of disarming charm and a writerly ego only outsized by his wit and grit. …
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Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens up on Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” Mnangagwa
Click or not: Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens up on Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” MnangagwaZimbabwean soldiers allegedly raped 17 women and brutally assaulted many others on sensitive organs during the state crackdown on protests against a 150 % fuel price increase last month. Government has denied the claims of the women, who are currently in NGO safe houses, citing that only one of them has made a police report.… …
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Roland Mhasvi’s Environmental Sequence
Click or not: Roland Mhasvi’s Environmental SequenceRoland Mhasvi’s Environmental Sequence Mhasvi advocates for the protection of biodiversity from the scourge of extractive capitalism with an urgency approaching the apocalyptic. The poet’s cause is especially pertinent cause as factory-made carcinogens and poisonous chemicals are endangering mankind and depleting the environment. Roland Mhasvi’s environmentally themed poetry anthology, “Time of the Rupture,” is… …
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The Wiring of the Mind
Click or not: The Wiring of the MindMichio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind Book: The Future of the MindAuthor: Michio KakuPublisher: Doubleday (2014)ISBN: 978-0-385-53083-5 If there is a short circuit in the wiring of genius, it is its incapacity to understand itself. The human mind is the perhaps most fascinating example of this contradiction. It seems as though the smarter the… …