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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store The Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka, in “The Three Short Plays” (1969) explores how faith can be a deterrent to one’s quest for success, as it impedes on one’s reasoning and sense of variety.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “From the grimness of your death bed you make stunning discoveries:/That you too can die/That there’s no tragedy in dying/And that death is just another of life’s imperatives/Your toothless mouth is a timely reminder that compared to the universe, you’re just a toddler,” intimates the artistic persona in David […]
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Elliot Zwira @ The Book Store Barthes (1977) and Jacobson (1965) explore the literary concepts of denotation, connotation, metaphor and metonym to illustrate the integration of literature and communication.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “COWARDS die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once… for death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”, so reasons William Shakespeare in “Julius Caesar”.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store When everything is skewed in favour of the powerful, well-oiled and silver spooned, the feeble and vulnerable place their hopes on the likelihood of picking up crumbs from the feet of the largass of opulent tables.
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore Memory Chirere (MC) is one of the finest Zimbabwean writers who have mastered the short story in both English and Shona traditions. Here At The Bookstore’s pen Elliot Ziwira (EZ) chats with the renowned writer, poet and academic about his poetry, short stories and religion, on the sidelines of the […]
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Elliot Ziwira At The Bookstore “The land is sacred! These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We’d become just the sun-tanned white men, the jetsam and flotsam of your great melting […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store KENYAN writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o compellingly tells the African story from a vantage point, using a combination of wit, humour and contempt.He visits the African experience from the colonial state, through the struggle against displacement and imperialism to the post-colonial era in “Secret Lives and other Stories” (1975).
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Elliot Ziwira At The Bookstore The temptation is always to ignore such books and dismiss or give them to kids. Well, are books written for children by adults supposed to be read only by children?When we were young we were always thrilled by our grandmother VaVhariyeta’s (Violet) stories, especially those that involved hunting.
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Elliot Ziwira At The Bookstore According to Lacan (1973) in “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III”, neurosis is deeper than a specific condition, but assumes the form of “legible” delusion that is structured like a language.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store It is not every day that a writer in any genre launches 20 books, as what 58-year-old motivational writer Imelda Tsumba (IT) has set out to do. Here she talks to At the Bookstore’s pen Elliot Ziwira (EZ) about her astounding feat, passion and ambitions.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Imagine the exuberance of meeting your idol in the flesh for the first time; in your excitement you pose a question to him and he blows your bubble in the presence of all and sundry, reminding you of the futility and vanity of it all – Just like “grasping […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “THERE is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ the Bookstore In a world where ignorance is tragic and knowledge is in vogue, it is quite dangerous to parade one’s lack of information. Nothing really beats knowledge in this rat race that we euphemistically call life, but one needs to know where exactly one stands pertaining to knowledge; for little of […]
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore Confucius once said; “To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our […]
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