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Where to get a copy of 'Somewhere in This Country' and some notes for your A...
If your class is doing ‘Somewhere in This Country’ for A level Zimsec Paper 2, you can order from a Harare book distributors:Best Books 9 Windermere Lodge Mazowe Street Harare Zimbabwe Tel:...
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Dambudzo Marechera's 'dissertation' on language
The past six months belonged to the late Dambudzo Marechera. First there was the publication of a book on his life and work which was compiled and edited by Dobrota Pucherova and Julie Cairnie. It is...
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Recipes from a Shona world
‘Kubika Machikichori’ by members of the Zimbabwe Women Writers, compiled by Colette Mutandadura and edited by Keresia Chateuka, published 2007, Harare, isbn: 978-0-7974-3432-5In Africa one’s mother or...
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Invite to a Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) meeting, 2 March 2013
(picture: Aaron Chiundura Moyo and Musaemura Zimunya enjoying lunch and a chat at the previous ZWA meeting in Harare)The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) is inviting you to its next Harare members...
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Charles Mungoshi's poetry: a reflection
picture: Charles Mungoshi with the late Marechera in the 1980sCharles Mungoshi, one of Zimbabwe's leading writers, is better known as a prize-winning prose writer for his novels and short-story...
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Stephen Mpofu's 'Creatures At The Top'
Title: 'Creatures At The Top' published in 2012, by Spiderwize, 259pages, isbn:978-1-908128-39-3Authour: Stephen MpofuStephen Mpofu has done justice to his memories. His new book, Creatures At The Top...
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'Somewhere In This Country' now in Bulawayo, Gweru and Harare
If your class is doing ‘Somewhere in This Country’ for A level Zimsec Paper 2, you can buy it from Best Books distributors in Bulawayo, Gweru and Harare:1.Best Books Bulawayo:Shop 474 Robert Mugabe...
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A new Zimbabwean book that may cause a whole conference
Zvinoda Kutangira Pasi, a play by Willie Lungisani ChigidiPublished in 2011 by Zimbabwe Publishing House, HarareISBN: 9780797446434, 64 pagesReviewed by Memory ChirereAlthough I am yet to see it on...
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My favourite love poem is from Pablo Neruda
Tonight I can write the saddest linesTonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example,'The night is shatteredand the blue stars shiver in the distance.'The night wind revolves in the sky and...
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Issues in 'the Zimbabwean short story.'
The sole place of the short story as a technique in Zimbabwean fiction is still in the blind spot. Those who have written extensively on Zimbabwean literature lump the short story together with the...
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Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) mourns Achebe
The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) board, the entire membership and all our friends and colleagues in the writing fraternity of Zimbabwe are deeply saddened by the sad loss of brother and writer,...
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Chinua Achebe: the thinker
Chinua Achebe; the great African author from Nigeria died on 21 March 2013 in Boston, US at the age of 82. His oeuvre is well known throughout the world. I know people who can recite chunks and chunks...
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Is Joseph Conrad’s 'Heart Of Darkness' racist?
Scholars of literature and some keen readers in Zimbabwe must be aware of a small but very powerful novel by Joseph Conrad entitled Heart of Darkness. Although it is a novel of 1899, it has sparked...
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Zimbabwe's hottest new countryside writer
Elias Machemedze reads from his novel Sarawoga at a recent writers meeting in Harare.Elias Machemedze, author of the novels; Sarawoga and Nherera Zvirange is an unassuming lanky young fellow. However,...
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Now... the longest novel by a Zimbabwean!
Title: Footprints in The Mists of TimeAuthor: Spiwe N Mahachi- HarperPublisher: abba press (December 1, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-1908690128Reviewed by Memory ChirereSpiwe Mahachi-Harpers’s new novel,...
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today is the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day
Virginia Phiri (left) donating copies of her books to the University of Zimbabwe library a couple of years ago. The World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April is 17 years old now. UNESCO Member States...
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Following up on a NAMA award winner
David Mungoshi (extreme right) with fellow writers in Harare.Some people take awards in the arts for granted. After the ceremony, they do not care about the winner. They do not make a follow up...
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Zimbabwe Writers Association Gweru meeting: 11 May 2013
The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) is inviting you to its Gweru writers get together meeting to be held in GWERU at the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (Cnr 8th and L. Takawira Street) on Saturday May...
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The Psalms of Beatrice Sithole
Beatrice Sithole (centre) making a point at a recent meeting in Harare.Book Title: Tribute to GodAuthor: Beatrice SitholePublisher: HansMak Designs P/L (Pvt.) Ltd, 2013120 pages: ISBN: 978 0 7974 4884...
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kwaChirere reads 'We Need New Names'
Title: We Need New NamesAuthor: NoViolet BulawayoPublisher and other details: Reagan Arthur Books, May 2013, 290 pagesReviewed by Memory ChirereNoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names...
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