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Elliot Ziwira At The Bookstore “Isanusi, I have to ask. The world we knew, the world we have put together; my father and his first General, you, my sister, and in a way General Otumfwo, that world is falling apart. At this moment I do not know who to trust. My sister and the Queen […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Coercive power is as corrupt as it is destructive and leaves innocent victims in its wake.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Wole Soyinka’s “Kongi’s Harvest” (1974) contributes immensely to drama in general and African drama in particular, in that it does not only conform to the three-part structure embraced by Allison (1986), but also exhibits elements of ritual.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store Home is where the heart yearns for, where it grows fonder upon one’s realisation of its fulfilment of purpose; its charm, serenity and permanence. It is that special place where one wants to always be, devoid of worrisome feelings of betrayal, crestfallenness or disillusionment.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store Conflict, according to Devito (1992:243), “refers to disagreements . . . between or among connected individuals, close friends, lovers or family members”. As posited by Simons (1986:23) conflict is “a clash of interests in which one party’s gain is another’s relative loss”. In light of the above it is imperative […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Ideology, as posited by Cayne et al, is a body of ideas used in support of an economic, political or social theory; the way of thinking of a class, culture or individual.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Ideology, as posited by Cayne et al, is a body of ideas used in support of an economic, political or social theory; the way of thinking of a class, culture or individual. Ideological conflicts are the bane of most African societies today whose roots can be traced back to […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ the Bookstore “So many things have happened; I am not responsible for their happening much as I am not responsible for the darkness of any night. Why does darkness fall on me? Cried night one night,” laments the narrator in Robert Muponde’s short story “The Storm” in the anthology “No More Plastic Balls […]
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore “What I think a novelist can teach is something very fundamental, namely to indicate to his readers, to put it crudely that we in Africa did not hear of culture for the first time from Europeans,” writes Chinua Achebe in “African Writers Talking” (1972:7). Africans have always been proud of the cultural […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Shimmer Chinodya is indeed a grandmaster at this kind of story, as he adeptly examines both the literal and metaphorical perils of individualism in the institution of marriage which makes it claustrophobic and oppressive on the individual psyche.
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Elliot Ziwira @ the Bookstore Soke Behzad Ahmadi’s book “Legacy of a Sensei” (1997) explores the transcendental nature of martial arts as a creative discipline that develops a complete man; physical, mental and spiritual, through close scrutiny of the role of a Sensei. He debunks the notion that martial arts, of which karate is
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Elliot Ziwira @ the Bookstore “Cowards die many times before their deaths, but the valiant oft taste of death but once”, says the Roman general Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, boasting that, for “danger knows that I am more dangerous than he.”
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore Namibian poet Julia Ndinelago Amukoshi’s debut transcendental anthology of poetry, “Tales of the Rainbow” (2014), published by Township Productions, stitches together different episodes of African existence; the struggle for independence, the euphoria that comes with freedom, and the yearning desires of the common man in the free Motherland, using a
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book store In both literal and metaphorical senses, a whole nation may be crippled as a result of neurosis.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Words must have a shared meaning if they are to have any impact on interlocutioners; without which communication will be void. Suffice to say words must be coined into a language for them not to be lost to the wind. To the undiscerning ear words are mere symbols.
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