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

26 January 2015

"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 scalding earth of his existence in a community desperately waiting for the rain.

The book taps into the journalistic function of the artist which complements the didactic nature of literature. As Soyinka (1973:89) observes: "The artist always functioned as the voice of vision in his own time."

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