Monthly Archives: May 2013

A Review of “Interviews with Effervescent Writers”

Title: Interviews with Effervescent Writers Editor: Christine Mautjana Publisher: Mbali Press                                                     Reviewed by Emmanuel Sigauke                                                          The package containing this book, shipped all the way from South Africa (to California) arrived in August 2012, when I was away in Zimbabwe. One of the writers featured in the book, Aryan Kaganof, whom I…

Memory Chirere Reviews “We Need New Names”

Memory Chirere is an award-winning Zimbabwean writer who teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Zimbabwe. NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names confirms the existence of  a certain special tradition in the literature of Zimbabwe which cries for adequate recognition and evaluation. Ever since Dambudzo Marechera of The House of Hunger’s “I got my  things…