Zimbabwe: Writers Mourn Novelist Chitsike

18 September 2013

Zimbabwean writers have described the death of prolific Shona novelist and playwright Bisset Cosmas Chitsike last Sunday as a loss to the country's valuable intellectual and cultural heritage. Chitsike's influence ran deep in the Shona literary world and as word of his passing circulated on Tuesday, many fellow writers and others offered their remembrances.

"It is sad that BC has passed on and he would have been happy setting up or creating another organisation just like the Literature Bureau since he was the last administrator.

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