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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 every one of us, or all is merely coincidental, or controlled by […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore The whites cared more for the land and its animals than they did for the Africans . . .
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore “This is something you will undoubtedly find hard to understand. I have decided to respond to the call of the wilderness. “It is the biggest decision I have had to take. It is the commitment without retreat. Break the news gently to the family. Tell them I have gone out on a […]
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Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore Independence Day is upon us once again as we celebrate the coming of age of an African ideology and sensibility; an ideology that is steeped in our nationhood, regardless of political or religious affiliation. Zimbabwe is our Motherland, notwithstanding our current domicile and challenges. “A man’s country is not a certain […]
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”, William Shakespeare observes in “Hamlet”. Denmark stinks, he aptly observes, because all and sundry have decided to throw morals to the dogs, either by default or by design. Yes, everyone has become
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Jameson Gadzirai’s “Wounds” (2007) reminds one of the many battles encountered in life’s experiences as the struggle to win is encumbered in losing. The wounds that the artiste purveys of are two-fold; literal and metaphorical. The literal or physical wounds inflicted on the body, though painful, are not permanent as they […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them,” aptly says Joseph Brodsky; because “it’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read,” (Judy Blume).
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store I have walked this path before and I know where it ends; I am sure I have sung this song more than once to know its crescendos; oh Lord you know how much I have traversed and negotiated the terrains along the journey of life.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store DAVID Kerr’s collection of poems “Tangled Tongues” (2003) visits the all too sensitive and yet familiar landscape of intercultural existence as individuals are thrown off board in their quest to co-exist in a global village. Cultural integration, whose root may be traced back to slavery; another thorny issue, and […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Yes, the Bible is awash with incidences of suffering; abject suffering, that one may be tempted to doubt the efficacy of being as enshrined in Godliness.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Bookstore IMAGINE a situation where a brother and sister are caught up in a love triangle, with the former’s fiancée hanging precariously on the fringes, as hearts bleed and common sense is traded for carnal satiation; a moment of madness where a government minister fights for her reputation in the bumpy political […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store There is a constant reminder that this world is not our home, as the crooner Jimmy Reeves sings in “Across the Bridge”, and Christians intone in their hymns.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Men go for long periods in the mines, occasionally coming back to their families which shreds the familial fabric expected to mould the communal and national consciousness.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store THERE is so much hope in the knowledge that in the absence of satiation, as it is wont to be in an oppressive environment, one can still feed on one’s faith, unperturbed. It is this unrestrained faith in the multiplicity of outcomes that breeds hope and a reason to soldier […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore “If I know who I am, I will be free”, so reasons the unnamed narrator in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. So certain is he that the knowledge of the self is the beginning of freedom, for a borrowed garment is never a one-fit-all apparel. The laboured gait of the borrower will […]
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