Tag: african literature
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BOOK REVIEW| Mukana Press’s Old Love Skin
Click or not: BOOK REVIEW| Mukana Press’s Old Love SkinOld 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 the blank negatives with ambivalence, impiety and intrigue. Poetry is, here, voice and breath, medicine and blood, origin and trace, unresolvedly tangled in a witching combat. …
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Zimbabwe International Book Fair Flexes Proof of Life After Covid-19 Break
Click or not: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Flexes Proof of Life After Covid-19 BreakZimbabwe 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 not live up to its international billing as it was poorly attended and short on sponsorship. Organisers are sending a message that they are still out here and need more… …
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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. …