Tag: uvaranomwe
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NHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-Harper
Click or not: NHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-HarperNHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-Harper Pfungwa dzangu dzakaramba dzichidzokera kuZimbabwe, kune vamwe vanofarira mabhuku seni. Ndaishuva kuti vawanewo mukana nemabhuku andanga ndaunganidza aya. Saka ndakaita shungu nekuunza mabhuku angu kuno. Ndichisvika Harare, ndakatanga nekushandura garaji rangu kuita imba yekuverengera. we Mahachi-Harper akadzoka kuZimbabwe muna2017 ndokusvikopaza garaji rake kumaflats ekuWestgate. Zvaipisa mabhuku ake ane… …
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DEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange
Click or not: DEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake SamkangeDEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange Mabhuku ake anosanganisira African Saga: An Introduction to African History (1971), anomutsidzira kwazvo ruremekedzo rwatinozvipa sevanhu vatema, uye akanyorwa panguva iyo vanamuzvinafundo vazhinji vaidukupisa rudzi rwedu vachikusha nhema dzeusvetasimba. Stanlake Samkange akavhurira Mashonaland musuwo weyunivhesiti paakatora dhigiri rayo rekutanga muna1947 paFort Hare University College. Kudzidza pachikomo kwaiera makore aya,… …
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When Dambudzo Marechera Met Aaron Chiundura Moyo – A Brief History of Zimbabwe’s Language Wars
Click or not: When Dambudzo Marechera Met Aaron Chiundura Moyo – A Brief History of Zimbabwe’s Language WarsIn newly independent Zimbabwe, language wars erupted between homecoming writers who had made their names in the language of exile and writers who had worked with the state-run Literature Bureau to grow a Ndebele and Shona canon. Onai Mushava revisits the cold encounters of two of Zimbabwe’s best known writers, Dambudzo Marechera and Aaron Chiundura… …
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MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”
Click or not: 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 seen through the insecurities of its cruelly self-probing lead character Max Matshane. …
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More Dambudzo Marechera Letters – To Karen, Flora, Amelia and Samantha (Part 1)
Click or not: 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 brought up by critics who accuse him of misogyny towards Black women and disconnect from the African image. What’s race got to do with it? …
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Alick Macheso is the Last of the Last – He Could Use More Ambition
Click or not: Alick Macheso is the Last of the Last – He Could Use More AmbitionLeader of the People’s Band, Alick Macheso, is the humble hero of the workingman and the Harare scene’s most obvious father figure after the death of Oliver Mtukudzi. With more aggression than retrospection, he can take Sungura to new frontiers. …
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INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe – When Blood Is Thick as Ink
Click or not: INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe – When Blood Is Thick as InkA 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 Mudereri Kadhani, and set the tone for new Zimbabwean poetry. Few years later, he had written well enough to be considered Zimbabwe’s foremost poet. What did it mean for Zimunya… …
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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| Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Portrait of Emlanjeni”
Click or not: BOOK REVIEW| Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Portrait of Emlanjeni”The idealised landscape of Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s new novel, A Portrait of Emlanjeni, is animated by the spirit of the people, their community ties and abiding regard for tradition. Ngwenya brings the indigenous and official justice systems into conversation, broadening them to make space for women. …
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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. …