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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Shongedza explores, among other thematic concerns, the central role that women play in fostering social cohesion and harmony, death, friendship, humility, religion and marriage.
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store SOME call them a menace, as they extend their unwelcome hands to them for alms and leftover food; others have no kind words for their unkempt, scarecrow appearances, with their threadbare, wash-free, bath-free existence inciting scrawny faces.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The BookStore THE reading of texts has been reduced to a cumbersome and monotonous experience had it not been for cohesive devices that writers exploit in linking reality and fictional experience; as such they should be fully deciphered for them to be effective. Artistes may tap into the more than 200 literary devices […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store SHIMMER Chinodya (SC) is one of the most prominent writers in Zimbabwe who has mastered the genres of verse and prose. He is equally comfortable with poetry as he is with the short story or novel. He has also penned English language textbooks used in Zimbabwean schools and the SADC region. […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ the Bookstore THE philosopher Alfred Alder once said: “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them”, and the social scientist Karl Marx pointed out that “religion is an opium of the people”. It is through the philosophies of the great men cited above that the concept of […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Everything seems to be skewed in favour of the mighty, who keep on spewing plastic balls in the wake of gravy trains. Who really is at fault, the one who accepts the plastic balls or the “generous” provider? Can the panacea really be mere plastic balls?
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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 Book Store Yes, there may be a lot of storms in life’s travails and tribulations, as it is wont to; but God will always keep His promise to mankind through His covenant with Noah; the Rainbow.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Artistes use metaphors, symbols and images, among others, as the flowers that adorn the written word, without which reading becomes a cumbersome experience.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “IF I know who I am, I will be free”, reasons the nameless hero in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. The search for identity is always a pricking issue in African literature, as the individual feels alienated and confined to the periphery of existence. Wondering whether the word suffering was invented […]
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Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore WHEN the heart bleeds, the mind is burdened and the soul is weighed down by suffering, the body becomes emaciated and enervated. It is during such times that reality and the metaphysical become intertwined with the symbolic elements that make up Man’s
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Elliot Ziwira @The Book Store “THIS business of womanhood is a heavy burden,” moans Tsitsi Dangarembga as she examines the struggle of the fairer sex in a patriarchal world. It is indeed burdensome to be a woman, when everything seems to be skewed in her disfavour, as she is alienated from a society that expects her to […]
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At the Bookstore With Elliot Ziwira 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 […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store HOPE seems to be that elusive harbinger that constantly shifts positions when the oppressed and downtrodden vainly seek solace in its receding enclaves. Hope cannot be any other colour but green – the colour of abundance – fruition and regeneration. In a hilarious satirical repertoire, the playwright
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Bookstore SOUTH Africa’s anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, once said: “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” In the same vein Stephen King also writes: “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all.
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