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Stanely Mushava Literature Today This year, Southern Africa is upstream in the creative scheme of things. The sub-region emerged as the continent’s foremost literary bloc this year, with a dazzling show at some of the world’s most coveted prizes for fiction.
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Stanley Mushava Literature Today The high point of the country’s literary calendar, Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF), convenes the book industry in Harare this week. The 33rd edition of the fair, themed “Igniting Interest in Reading for Sustainable Development,” comes at a time when the book value chain is struggling on
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Stanely Mushava Features Correspondent Charismatic mega-churches have provided a fresh impetus for religious tourism in Zimbabwe. Prophet Walter Magaya of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministry is perfecting a T.B Joshua-model guest house which draws the faithful from several countries on a sustained basis. The United Family International (UFIC)’s annual Judgement Night, PHD’s Night of Turnaround and Zaoga […]
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Stanely Mushava : Features Correspondent It may be seldom acknowledged but every creative and intellectual domain has been memorably impacted on by a large-than-life genius living with disability. There is a persistent debate, not without merit, on whether John Milton or William Shakespeare is the king of English literature. The debate, running in books, academic papers and newspaper […]
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Stanley Mushava Features Correspondent The library, one of the foremost cultural sites, is ceding its influence to digital technology as visits edge downward in different parts of the world. In Zimbabwe, lukewarm attendance has seen libraries morphing into other ventures such as Internet cafés, and giving up space to unrelated businesses like
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today Book: Showers of Inspiration Author: Rabison Shumba Publisher: Greatness Factory Publishers (2014) ISBN: 978-1-312-29530-8 In Rabison Shumba’s terms of reception, books must be toolkits for self-development rather than shelf-development. With Bugle, the ghetto advocate, Shumba wants to see “every sour lime become sweet, and every board house turn concrete.” And the capacity […]
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today The cataclysmic tragedy in the dream speaks to the abolition of God, perversion of knowledge, downgrade of morality, end of reason, aversion to love, prevalence of crime and eruption of terror currently sweeping across the world.
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today Book: Mawonero/Umbono Edited by Ignatius Mabasa
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Stanley Mushava Literature Today Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede flared up an interesting debate last year when he branded birth control drugs a form of Western conspiracy to keep Africa underdeveloped.
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today The failure of Nkrumah’s vision for unification and empowerment during his own time does not suggest that these ideals were a blind alley.
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Stanley Mushava Literature Today I do not know all the normative abstractions for the reception of literature of a post-modernist orientation. But I believe an old-fashioned critic can be forgiven for looking for heroes and heroines, valour and virtue, complexity and resolution in a book in which he invests so many treasured after-hours on behalf […]
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Stanley Mushava Literature Today Zimbabwe’S creative industries are in steep decline. Creativity without visibility is the tragedy of our culture circuit.
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