Tee Ngugi, the eldest of Ngugi’s offspring is a writer, columnist, and singer-songwriter of note. His short fiction, essays, and commentaries have appeared in several publications including New Orleans Review, St Petersburg Review, Kwani, Brittle Paper, Timbuktu, New Black Magazine, Jahazi, and The East African, among others.
Inside a great writer’s head In this wide-ranging interview, celebrated Zimbabwean writer, editor, musician, academic and media trainer Dr Ignatius Mabasa (IM) talks to multiple award-winning Zimbabwean journalist, editor, musician and scholar Moses Magadza (MM) about many issues including: his iconic PhD; promoting the vernacular; some of his famous books; Christianity and creative writing; the…
Title: Green Medicines: Pharmacy of Natural Products for HIV and Five AIDS-related Infections ISBN-13: 978-0-9695307-5-6 Publisher: Africa In Canada Press, 25 Blue Oak Street, Kitchener, Ontario N2R 0K3, Canada Author: Professor Kazhila C. Chinsembu Book Review by Magadza It is safe to say that there is no local book that better addresses the Namibian government’s Harambee…
Last time we featured Moses Magadza interviewing renowned Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove. Now Magadza returns with an interview of another Zimbabwean writer, Beaven Tapureta, who says that too many people all over the world continue to turn their noses at writers, perpetuating the mistaken belief that they are essentially unemployed people. He says far from being part of…
