Zimbabwe: Where Is Literature On Land Reform?

10 December 2012
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When will "you people" tackle the fast track land reform of your country in your literature? This is the question often asked as soon as people learn that you are a writer from Zimbabwe. The assumption is that nothing has been written on this subject and that the Zimbabwean writer is a betrayer. The other assumption is that one should write fiction on things as soon as they happen like journalists do.

The most awkward of these people assume that since you are a writer, you must "know everything" enough to sit down and write now-now! They think you will be happy by merely chronicling events during the fast track land reform.

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