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Ignatius Mabasa writes intro to Shamhu YeZera Renyu
MusumoShamhu Yezera Renyu raita kuti ndifunge kuti, mudetembi Memory Chirere anonetsa kuti umuwanire mupanda kana tasvika panyaya dzekunyora nhetembo.Chirere munyori asvika panotyisa pakasiyana...
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The writer from Matobo speaks...
Vuso Mhlanga (VM) interviews Zimbabwean novelist, Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya( TNN) on her new novel, A Portrait of Emlanjeni published by Carnelian Heart Publishing in the UK this March 2023.VM: Your new...
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KwaChirere reviews Fatima Kara’s debut novel
Title: The Train House on Lobengula Street,Author: Fatima KaraPublisher: Envelope Books: London, 2023Isbn: 9 781915 023094 (A Book Review by Memory Chirere)Fatima Kara’s novel, The Train House on...
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Daves Guzha returns with AIKAKA!
Yesterday, Wednesday, 9 August 2023, in the evening, I went to the Theatre in The Park in the Harare Gardens to watch veteran dramatist’s, Daves Guzha’s one man play called Aikaka! The play is showing...
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KwaChirere interviews writer, Fatima Kara
Fatima KaraFatima Kara’s debut novel, The Train House on Lobengula Street,published this 2023 by Envelope Books, is a rare story about Indians coming to...
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Musa Zimunya, Marechera and others in the turmoil of 1973
Musaemura ZimunyaThrough a recent article that appeared in the Joburg Review of Books, eminent Zimbabwean poet, Musaemura Zimunya relives the Pots...
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Fidelis Bushu offers first review of Shamhu yeZera Renyu
(pic: Fidelis Bushu with Memory Chirere as young men in Bindura, 1995.)A book Review by Fidelis BushuTitle of Book: Shamhu yeZera RenyuAuthor: Memory ChirereMemory Chirere’sPublisher: Carnelian Heart...
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KwaChirere previews Andrew Chatora's debut short stories
Inside Harare Alcatraz and other short storiesAuthor: Andrew ChatoraPublisher: Kharis PublishingISBN-13: 978-1-63746-234-8 Date of publication: 2024I am privileged to reveal that this February 2024,...
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Tariro Ndoro reviews Andrew Chatora's short story book
Navigating Zimbabwe and her Diaspora: Through the YearsInside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories Reviewed by Tariro Ndoro When it reaches the bookshops in your neighbourhood soon in the first...
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Andrew Chatora’s Literature award…a background
Mainstream media in Zimbabwe has announced that Andrew Chatora, the UK based Zimbabwean author of Diaspora Dreams, has won the 2024 Anthem Awards, Silver category, with his rabble-rousing third novel,...
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KwaChirere reads Shards by Cynthia Marangwanda
Shards, a novella by Cynthia Marangwanda, published by Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781914287404, Price: US$12.99 (A book review by Memory Chirere)Before I came across Cynthia...
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Rodney T Munemo reads Shamhu YeZera Renyu
( Rodney T Munemo)A day after I finished reading Memory Chirere’s latest collection of poems, Shamu YeZera Renyu, the book won a National Arts...
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KwaChirere reads Mukondiwa's book on Mtukudzi
Oliver Mtukudzi and meAuthor: Robert Mukondiwa (2021), HarareIsbn: 978-1-77921-573-4, 220 pages A book review by Memory ChirereRobert Mukondiwa’s book; Oliver Mtukudzi and me: A Life in Song and Media,...
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Onai Mushava dissects Andrew Chatora's latest novel
Onai Mushava dissects Andrew Chatora’s latest novel: Andrew Chatora’s 2023 novel, Harare Voices and Beyond, interrogates land, race and nationhood in Zimbabwe. Literary journalist Onai Mushava picks...
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The Return of Barbra Makhalisa...Gqabula!
Title: Gqabula!Author: Barbara MakhalisaPublisher: Radiant Publishing CompanyYear of Publication: 2024Number of Pages: 196Isbn:9781779338082(Reviewed by Lickel Ndebele)Veteran Zimbabwean novelist,...
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Ericah Gwetai returns with intriguing stories about love and war
Title: is this Love?Author: Ericah GwetaiPublished: 2022, (revised edition; 2023) in Mutare, ZimbabweIsbn: 978-1-77932-275-4Ean: 9781779312754103 pages (Book review by Memory Chirere)It is very easy...
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Talking to Rutendo Shadaya: the teen author
+ (pic: Rutendo Shadaya with her two books at South Waikato Library, New Zealand)Today I interview an amazing author, Rutendo Shadaya. Born in 2008, Rutendo is a teen New Zealand/Zimbabwean author. Her...
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Zim Writer, Andrew Chatora lauded in Uganda
A Book Review by Philip MatogoTitle: Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short StoriesAuthor: Andrew ChatoraPublished: 2024Available: support@kharispublishing.com/www.kharispublishing.comPrice: 50,000...
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Batsirai Chigama reviews Shamhu yeZera Renyu!
The fiery Zimbabwean poet, Batsira Chigama, has given us the latest review of Shamhu yeZera Renyu on her blog. Full Review Now Available...
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Muchuri translates Chigama's review of Shamhu yeZera Renyu
“Roving in the mental ploughshares of Memory Chirere’s Shamhu yeZera Renyu…” A Batsirai Chigama Book ReviewTitle Shamhu yeZera Renyu,Published 2023 by Carnelian Heart PublishingAuthor: Memory...
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Nyashadzashe Chikumbu on Andrew Chatora and the Zim short story
Andrew Chatora THE UNSTOPPABLE MARCH OF THE HUMAN CONDITION:A Review of Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories Reviewed by Nyashadzashe...
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Dambudzo Marechera writes again to Samantha...
Dear SamanthaThis is a deathbed epistle! Conversely, it is some kind of postscript. With sheer hindsight, I dwell on my impending death and what will happen after I...
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Three Mosi-oa-tunya poets
Title: Mosi – Oa-Tunya: Three Zim PoetsPoets: Tawanda Chideme, George Kandiero and Timothy ManeswaPublished by Well of Wisdoma Global, 2024Isbn:978-0-7961-1994-0, 129pagesA Book review by Memory...
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KwaChirere reads Zagamo by Ray Mawerera
Title: Zagamo: The war withinAuthor: Ray MawereraPublished in Harare by Royalty Books, 2023,109 pagesIsbn: 987-11779330819 A book review by Memory Chirere Ray Mawerera will surely be in deep trouble...
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Andrew Chatora reads Samantha Vazhure's Weeping Tomato
(Pic: Andrew Chatora)Vazhure’s Weeping Tomato: An Intrepid Tale of Interconnected Binary Opposites - A Review by Andrew ChatoraBelow, Andrew...
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