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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore Africans generally, and Zimbabweans particularly, are a unique people in that instead of wallowing in sorrow in a world where the superiority of race is evoked at every corner of its precincts, they let out a hearty laugh and let things be.
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore CONFLICT, according to Devito (1992:243), “refers to disagreements . . . between or among connected individuals, close friends, lovers or family members,” and as posited by Simons (1986:23), it (conflict) is “a clash of interests in which one party’s gain is another’s loss.” Ideology, as postulated by Cayne (1988), is a body […]
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore One of nature’s finest gifts to Man is music, which makes it possible for him to relate to his fellow men and the environs around him. Music is a powerful tool in a miasmic world where everything seems to be in abeyance, and the might jolt the feeble from their dreams. […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore There are some people who live to eat, and others who eat to live; and others still who live off others’ sweat, all because food is central to the way Man interacts with his fellow men and the environment that surrounds him. Food is known to have created great relations in […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Although no single definition may be said to be holistic in the explanation of the complex phenomenon known as curriculum, it can be simply referred to as a course of study or plan for what is to be taught in an educational institution (Wiles, Bondi in “Curriculum Development: A Guide […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Give me a book anytime and take away everything else and I will survive; give me all and deny me access to books and I will die, for the written word is my life.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store There are so many books to pick from here at the Bookstore. So many books to bury myself in and forget about the worries of this world; which is not my home anyway as Jim Reeves croons in “Across the Bridge”.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store On Saturday July 15, 2017, writer Spiwe Mahachi-Harper invited friends and book lovers to her house in Westgate, Harare, for a book sharing event at her expense.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “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,” so laments the narrator in Robert Muponde’s short story “The Storm” in the anthology “No More […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store In the book “So Long a Letter” (1981), Senegalese writer Mariama Ba exposes the claustrophobic and oppressive nature of culture on women, as they vainly strive to follow their hearts’ desires in a society fraught with suspicion and male chauvinism. It is a sad, poignant, touching, revealing; yet sizzling […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “Ah, sinful nation a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evil doers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged” (Isaiah 1v4).
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Fiction is an expression of a people’s yearnings, aspirations, desire for liberation in all its facets, cultural mores and values, and a quest for psychic catharsis.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Imagine a world without boundaries, where love knows neither race nor ethnicity, where everyone else is a friend regardless of age or level of presumed education. Just imagine, a world without hatred or violence, where soothing music brings us all to the dance floor; and we flawlessly skank all our […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store NIGEL JACK’S “Naked” (2007) explores the profound mysticism, complexity and allure of nudity which has the capacity to ensnare, vex and befuddle, yet at the same time liberates. It is not so much the idea of nakedness that is worrisome, but the dawning knowledge that one is indeed naked — […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “A dog is a dog. The average African dog is less than that. The average African dog is a creature to be kicked, scolded and have missiles thrown at it – an inconvenient extra mouth that threatens precarious supplies in seasons of drought, or on rare munificent occasions such as […]
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