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The controversial and contradictory nature of liberation struggles across Africa in general, and Southern Rhodesia in particular, make the reading of Nyamfukudza’s hero in “The Non-Believer’s Journey” (1980) evocative, revealing and thought provoking . . .
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Land has always been a people’s pride, and it remains so, because without land ownership development continues to recede to the horizon. It is the womb to aquatic, mineral, agricultural and other natural resources, which makes it trite to wish away any struggle for its repossession.
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Juxtaposing opulence and abject poverty, the dramatist takes the reader into the private space of the MP, who has become wealthy overnight, despite his low level of education, because of his links to power.
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Elliot Ziwira Senior Features Writer YESTERDAY journalists around the globe celebrated World Press Freedom Day under the theme “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and the Rule of Law”, amid reports by the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) that 44 scribes were killed in 18 countries during the first four months of 2018, up from […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store HAVING emerged on the Zimbabwean literary landscape after Independence in 1980, Tafataona Mohoso, Thomas Sukutai Bvuma and Freedom T. Nyamubaya draw inspiration from the liberation struggle and its aftermaths, though they write from different perches. Bvuma and Nyamubaya’s poetry is poignant in its depiction of the struggle in which […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Jean Rhys explores the problematic nature of belonging in “Wide Sargasso Sea” (1966) through characterisation, metaphors and setting. Although slavery has been abolished, the dynamics that have been in place remain functional. Using the point of view of former white slave masters, who struggle to locate themselves in an […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store There is something about the Romantic theory that is both inspirational and boggling, when it comes to the understanding of the artiste as an individual, and it is this that this instalment will seek to unravel. Romanticism as a theory of literature debunks the aesthetic rigidity of classicism, which leans […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store IF we combine, the resilience in you my sister; coupled with your motherly glow, your robust attitude brother, our little brother’s intellect and analytical prowess, our great friend’s business acumen and our mother’s never-say-die spirit, don’t you think we will build a formidable fortress for our descendants? Dear citizen, friend […]
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HOME is where the heart yearns for; where one’s realisation of its fulfilment of purpose, charm, harmony, serenity and permanence makes it grow fonder.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store “These heads of the government are the true traitors in Africa, for they sell their country to the most terrifying of their enemies; stupidity. This tribalising of the central authority, it is certain, encourages regionalist ideas and separatism,” argues Frantz
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A vice that has besotted humanity since time immemorial, corruption is a cancer that has the capacity to eat into the core of national ethos if allowed to persist.
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He has mastered the autobiographical mode in a reflective way, which makes it easier for the reader to locate himself/herself in the many physical, emotional and psychological sites that the fictional experience purveyed brings forth.Robert Muponde, like Shimmer Chinodya, has a way of taking the reader into his space through reflection on shared experiences. He has a certain way of telling his own story in such a way that it becomes our story; yours and mine.
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore When I read Ezekiel Mphahlele “Down Second Avenue” (1959), for the first time many years ago, I was so consumed by it that I could not separate myself from the writer’s experiences in apartheid South Africa.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store AFRICAN-American writer and poet Nilene Omodele Adeoti Foxworth’s “Bury me in Africa”, which was first published by Vantage Press (USA) in 1978, explores the depths one can go in search of an identity and familial roots.
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore “Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once,” so says Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, for “death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
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