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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store When we were growing up in our ever intriguing ‘hood of Glen Norah A, one of our pastimes was playing cards, particularly Crazy 8. We were all inspired by the belief that “every hand is a loser and every hand is a winner”, as Kenny Rodgers aptly croons in […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store MY father Kenneth Musumare was a no-nonsense man, and often my brother Shepherd and I were at the receiving end of his whip because of our wayward behaviour, commensurate with growing up. He would give us a long rope to hang ourselves, and we often did, and he would lock […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store YVONNE Vera’s “Under the Tongue” (1996) explores the burden of silence when debilitating sorrows, pains, dreams and expectations remain shrouded in the secret enclaves of the mouth as a heavy stone is cast on the tongue. Like a river in whose belly different creatures exist in their cosmopolitan way, […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book store “ON a fine Spring day in Harare, Sithembiso and I buried her brother Fitzpatrick ‘Fitz’ MacDonald Muzanenhamo . . . It was Spring, a season for birth and blessings, not death and curses”, laments the journalist-narrator in Bill Saidi’s “A Fine Day for a Funeral” in the anthology “Writing […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store NOW that the books wagon which recently docked in the Harare Gardens has departed, leaving in its wake a replenished, emancipated, wiser and hopeful, yet not satiated readership, we at the Bookstore find pleasure in reflecting on the impact of literature in shaping man’s aspirations and desires in a […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store My late grandmother Violet, popularly known by her legion of admirers as VaVhariyeta, was a storyteller par excellence. She could tell us old and new tales with the same finesse of detail accompanied by hilarious songs, and we could never tire of listening. She could delve into folkloric drama […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store ROPAFADZO Mupunga’s “Revai” (2014) published by Zimbabwe Women Writers, which was nominated for the 2014 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), is an apt read, as it tackles social issues besetting most African societies. Inheritance, witchcraft, religion and charlatanism are fertile grounds for African artistes, as individuals strive to locate […]
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Eliiot Ziwira@ The Book Store The open-endedness of literary criticism is sometimes burdened by the tendency to judge books by their covers and titles. Some titles shout where they should only whisper, scream where groaning would suffice and roar where tweeting would be more appropriate.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store A plethora of definitions has been advanced by different communicators in an attempt to explain bargaining, especially collective. Though they differ in their presentations, their ideas seem to subscribe to the notions that bargaining is not an individual action but a collective effort whose sole purpose is to come up with […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store “Where then are the roots, where the solution To life’s equation The roots are nowhere There are no roots here Probe if you may From now until doomsday.” The above lines from the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo’s poem “On the New Year” (1958) are not only as pessimistic as T.S. […]
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore ADVERTISING, which according to the American Marketing Association, refers to “any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas or social services by an identified sponsor,” functions as a double-edged dagger in the upholding of societal mores and values on the one hand and economic performance on the other. […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore One unique trait about Joyce Jenje Makwenda is her ability to tell the woman’s story without being overly defensive or overtly feminine, which makes it possible for her audiences, be they female or male, to pick their own biographies within the tales of the travails of the fairer sex. The burden […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Through adept characterisation, realism and language, Brian Chikwava’s “Harare North” (2009), purveys, among other concerns, the way society creates victims who invariably become monsters, because of the templates it prescribes to individuals.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store There is so much to life than meets the eye, so much to pain and suffering than the soul can contemplate and so many skeletons in the closet of the man of fortune than he realises. There is so much going on and nothing really happening for the world is […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “The African is corrupt through and through . . . They are all corrupt,” says Mr Green in Chinua Achebe’s “No Longer at Ease” (1963). When corruption becomes an intrinsic part of life then society’s moral fabric is shred, not so much for its frailty but because nudity becomes […]
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