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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Conversations with local Zimbabwean writers are sometimes mentally draining. There is always a latent siege mentality. Like an endangered species, they find comfort in herd mentality and in the process fail to critically and objectively offer new realities of existence for a writer in Zimbabwe.
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Ranga Lovemore Mataire The Reader Located at corner Sam Nujoma Street and George Silundinka Avenue is a very unusual place called Treasure Trove. It’s such an odd place with one side displaying some books of all manner and the other side some ornamental antiquities in a museum-like permanent state. It stands out in a rather outlandish […]
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader In many African countries, disenchantment with post-colonial politics finds literary expression in satire. In Zimbabwe, satire has found expression in drama. Among the few published satiric pieces are Mindblast’s (1984), “The Toilet” by Dambudzo
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader DESPITE the unfortunate nature of his death, Maurice Tapfumaneyi Nyagumbo was endowed with an undying spirit that spurred him on even in the face of adversity until his beloved country attained majority rule.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire : Senior Writer Conferment of heroism on an individual has over the years become an emotive issue with some people advocating the setting up of a national “inclusive” body responsible for according the status to illustrious citizens. However, this kind of advocacy conveniently ignores the fact that the very essence of heroism derives its […]
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire : Senior Writer THE failure by the three candidates vying for the AU Commission chairperson’s post to garner the required two-thirds majority votes has flung the door open for more candidates to enter the race for election due next year. At the just-ended 27th AU Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, the three candidates — Botswana’s […]
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Independence offered boundless possibilities to Zimbabwean writers coming from an environment of extreme censorship and other repressive laws that stifled the creative spirit.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader One of Zimunya’s poetry collections, which stands out as a clear indication of the poet’s romantic attachment to nature and the rural landscape is his “Selected Poems” (1995) published in both English and Serbian languages.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Fatima Conteh is not a very common author. I stumbled upon her story, as I was perusing heaps of novels that deal with religion as a stumbling block for women’s emancipation.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader In many African countries, disconnection with post-colonial politics finds literary expression in satire. In the case of Zimbabwe, one area where satire has found expression is in drama. Among the few published satiric pieces is Mindblast’s (1984) “The Toilet” by Dambudzo Marechera, “The Honourable
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader There are instances when publishers rush to box an author in limiting spaces. In such instances, certain labels are attached to writers. The labels may signal death knell in terms of versatility as one panders to the whims of publishers.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Literature and film have always intertwined and inspired each other since the beginning of cinema. Many film directors have taken fiction as the reservoir for their works through adaptations, which have gone to be more popular than their mother text.
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Fresh Ink-Collaborative Poetry (2016) compiled by and published by Joseph Mahiya is a book comprising 29 young poets focusing on growing up, relationships, love and a celebration of nature.
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Veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle held a meeting with President Mugabe on Thursday, April 7 2016, where they tabled various concerns regarding their welfare, Zanu-pf’s ideology, threats to the revolutionary party and the safeguarding of the liberation war heritage. Our Senior Writer
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire Senior Writer Mudhara Gora Alexander Kanengoni you are not dead. How can you be dead when just two weeks ago I met you with Amai — your wife, at Montagu Shopping Centre in the Avenues in Harare and you promised to look at my manuscript? How can you be dead when you had […]
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