Zimbabwe: Thanks to Mungoshi, We Can Read Ngugi in Shona

Chinua Achebe once said, "For most writers in the world, there is never any conflict -- the mother tongue and the writing language are one and the same. But from time to time, and as a result of grave historical reasons, a writer may be trapped unhappily and invidiously between two imperatives."

Yet for Charles Mungoshi, he has always found a way of writing between two languages.

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