January 26

• Zimbabwe: 'Long Time Coming' Hope and the Role of the Artist

  "LONG Time Coming" (2008), edited by Jane Morris and published by amaBooks, chronicles the mundane and sordid experiences of the common man, as he stoically trudges on along the... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Inside Memory Chirere's 'Useless Book'

  Book: Bhuku Risina Basa Read more »

January 12

• Zimbabwe: When 'Branching Streams Flow in the Dark' Hope Dies

  CHARLES Mungoshi's latest novel "Branching Streams Flow in the Dark" (2013) does not only venture into the presumed murky waters of the stigmatisation and stereotyping associated... Read more »

December 22, 2014

• Zimbabwe: A Continuum of Anti-Imperialist Struggles

  A Fine Madness is a book that intertwines Zimbabwe's anti-imperialist struggles for autonomy through highlighting epitaphs of the war of liberation and the country's incursions in... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Chirere's 'Bhuku Risina Basa' Redefines Poetry

  THERE are times you feel that the world owes you a lot of explanations for paying scanty regards to your existence, notwithstanding the immeasurable contributions you made in its... Read more »

December 08, 2014

• Zimbabwe: The Power of Words in a Deaf World

  It is this resignation to fate culminating from the fear of the unknown which is baneful to regeneration and progress, especially so when it comes from those wisened by age and... Read more »

November 10, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Survival in a Spiral of Decadence

  Literature Today With Stanely Mushava Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Influence of Orature On African Literature

  LITERATURE, like orature, as coined by the Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu, is influenced by culture, which is the pivot upon which societies are perched. Pre-literate societies, which... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Exhuming Zimunya's Endearing Poetry

  MUSAYEMURA Bonas Zimunya's contribution to Zimbabwe and Africa's literary terrain is huge. While the author is mostly known for his poetry, he has also written a number of prose... Read more »

November 03, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Liberation Not an Event, but a Process

  MAYOMBE by Pepetela is a must-read book for anyone in search of a better understanding of the dynamics of liberation movements in Africa particularly in Angola where the guerrilla... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Mob 2.0 - Internet, Culture and the Economy

  Literature Today With Stanely Mushava Read more »

October 20, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Book 'Resurrects' Memories of Life in the Village

  Emmanuel Sigauke's 2014 collection of short stories is still hot from the oven. I have to admit that my first bite provoked more bites until I could not just put it down. Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Green Is 'The Colour of Hope'

  HOPE seems to be that elusive harbinger that constantly shifts positions when the oppressed and down trodden vainly seek solace in its receding conclaves. Hope cannot be any other... Read more »

October 13, 2014

• Zimbabwe: The Paradigmatic Shift in Matigari

  ONE of the main themes of Ngugi wa Thiongo's novel Matigari is the deceptiveness of any notion of an epistemological rupture between colonial and post-colonial society. While the... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Culture, Marriage and the Burden of Womanhood

  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... Read more »

October 07, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Perhaps It Is Time to Say Goodbye to Book Writing

  In three years, I earned nothing from a book that has been a national school set text. Read more »

October 06, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Cultural, Ideological Conflict in 'Coming of the Dry Season'

  Colonial education creates individuals who, because of lack of belonging, are alienated from their families and communities. Read more »

• Zimbabwe: The Self-Publishing, Mediocrity Debate

  Self-publishing, as it is happening in Zimbabwe, is by and large a spiral of mediocrity whereby more and more is being produced without commitment to quality. Read more »

October 01, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Sigauke Is a Perfectionist

  United States-based Zimbabwean writer, Emmanuel Sigauke's new book "Mukoma's Marriage and Other Stories" is an interesting collection in many ways, first its history and later, the... Read more »

September 22, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Fate and 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'

  Temper is a weakness in man which somehow clouds his judgment and is detrimental to progress; that also is true. Read more »

September 18, 2014

• Zimbabwe: When a Book Cover Means So Much

  BOOKS are a part of my life and when I have that time to serendipitously go through the rows of bookshelves in libraries or bookstores, the feeling is more than when I shop around... Read more »

September 15, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Stimulus Package for Proudly Zim Brands

  Book: Brand Ideology Read more »

September 08, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Ever Wondered Why the Mangy Dog Was Killed?

  LUIS Bernado Honwana's "We Killed the Mangy Dog & Other Mozambique Stories" is one of the texts recommended for study by the English Department at the University of... Read more »

September 01, 2014

• Zimbabwe: Manyimbiri Exposes the DNA of Corruption

  Book: Tamba iri Kurira Read more »

July 28, 2014

• Zimbabwe: 'Up in Arms' Against Despair, Greed

  AS Heroes Day commemorations approach, it is imperative to reflect on what those sons and daughters of an oppressed and disparaged peasantry were up in arms against, as they... Read more »