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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore THE controversial and contradictory nature of liberation struggles across Africa in general, and Southern Rhodesia in particular, makes the reading of Nyamfukudza’s hero in “The Non-Believer’s Journey”(1980), evocative, revealing and thought-provoking, especially when read against the backdrop of the struggle between the individual and the collective.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore HOPE is that indispensable ingredient that allows us to see beyond the present predicament in the recipe of our existence, so that we find a purpose to soldier on; without which everything loses meaning.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore THE 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 Bookstore Tafataona Mahoso is one of the most prominent poetic voices to have emerged from the Zimbabwean landscape, yet he seems to have gone underground. His therapeutic, candid, incisive, evocative and transcendental poetry knows no sacred cows, as it questions the complex nature of co-existence in a Manichaean world, that believes in the […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher,” so reasons the philosopher Socrates. But really, might there be an ideal partner somewhere for everyone of us, or all is merely coincidental, or controlled by […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store MARTIN Luther King Jnr once remarked that: “The greatest tragedy of our time is not the few who have destroyed, but the vast majority who sat idly by.” The great human rights advocate and unifier Mahatma Gandhi observes that: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store LOOKING at the nature of slavery and what constitutes the concept of colour in the United States today vis-à-vis what it has been for over two centuries now, one cannot help concluding that the reading of two of the greatest minds in post-abolition America – W.E.B Du Bois and Booker […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store THE artiste in the African world view plays a plethora of roles, which make it possible for him to identify with his people through articulation of the cultural mores and values that shape his society through language.
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore In the African experience it is rather folly to downplay the role that women have always played in upholding societal values as well as moulding the family unit, which is why the adage that “behind every successful man is a woman” holds water. African Literature, especially in indigenous languages, is inspired by […]
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore “What did I do to be black and blue?” innocently asks the crooner Louis Armstrong, unable to decipher why everything seems to be ganging up against him, because of the colour of his skin, in a world where the tune of mighty evokes more boisterous mirth than the sad dirges […]
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore THERE is so much determination and nerve-wrecking urgency in the roar of a trapped and wounded animal of prey, which can only be ignored at the peril of those within its territory; such a roar that warns of an impending calamity to those that dare stand in the way. Most well minded […]
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore CREDITED to Henry Sylvester-Williams and Edward Wilmond Blyden, the term Pan-Africanism refers to an intellectual movement that seeks to unify and strengthen Africa into one body, (Adi and Sherwood, 2003). The movement, whose aim is to foist beneficial cooperation between African states on political, social and economic platforms, stretches beyond continental Africans to […]
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore THOUGH, it may be problematic to come up with a holistic definition of colonialism in isolation with imperialism, it is imperative to put it in context that the phenomenon is a practice of domination and subjugation of a people by another.
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore THERE are so many shadows that pursue humanity; shadows that permeate the wounds of the past, the present stupor, the yawning future, shadows everywhere; that it becomes tasking for the individual to locate himself in the many shadows that reflect on the walls of his/her existence.
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore Stanley Nyamufukudza remains as enigmatic as he is sceptically honest when it comes to putting the role of the artiste in society into perspective through his flat-refutation of the notion that the writer can be considered a teacher to his community.
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