A Letter from the Death Bed Austin Kaluba’s Sequel to “Dambudzo Writes to Samantha” Dear Samantha, Death bed epistle. Which of you two bastards is death? You, who delayed your reply until longing curdled into resentment, or the thin shadow perched at the foot of this hospital bed counting my breaths like unpaid debts? By…
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New Short Fiction by Tanaka Chidora
Tanaka Chidora is a Zimbabwean academic and writer, recognized for his bilingual works in English and Shona. He translated Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not and published acclaimed poetry in Because Sadness is Beautiful? His forthcoming novel, Born Location, has garnered recognition, alongside his awards for short stories, including the inaugural Carnelian Heart Publishing award.
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Mma Madu Is a Patient Woman
Chidima Anekwe is a Nigerian-American short story writer and essayist and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is recently graduated from Yale University, where she studied English Literature. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from MAYDAY, Torch Literary Arts, SWING, Chapter House Journal (formerly Mud City), The Madrid Review, and elsewhere. She has received…
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Zimbabwean Writer Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s Impactful Literary Journey
Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya (TNN) is one of renowned Zimbabwean writers who write in Ndebele and English. She was born in Matebeleland South Province in Zimbabwe to a Ndebele father and Shona mother. She grew up there and attended school in Minda Girls High School, Maphisa. Her first Ndebele novel, Izinyawo Zayizolo (2016), is about the…
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Zimbabwe Welcomes Visionaries in the Arts for Global Annual Conference
Kumbulani Muleya, Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya, Artizen International Conference, Arts for Social Transformation, Harare, Zimbabwe
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Kaluba, the author of ‘Marechera’s Samantha Letter’, chats with Chirere
In the following interview, Memory Chirere chats with Austin Kaluba regarding the letter he wrote in 2011 in memory of Dambudzo Marechera. The letter is included at the end of the interview. Chirere begins, “Very few people know that the so-called Dambudzo Marechera’s letter to Samantha, which has gone viral on many websites, was not…
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KASEKE’S DEBUT BOOK CAPTURES THE PLIGHT OF DIASPORANS
There is a badge of shame that seems to haunt Zimbabwean characters in a foreign country, especially when Zimbabwe itself is in the limelight for its economic and political instabilities.
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Book Fantastics in world’s first booksellers conference
“When we started Book Fantastics, we believed and sometimes still believe it is a game changer in book distributing trends. We never thought it would allow us to see places beyond the Zimbabwean borders, let alone the African continent. Our dream has always been to reshape the Zimbabwean bookshop by going beyond book selling. We wanted to have conversations with authors and those conversations to extend and facilitate dialogue amongst author’s themselves and in turn spur similar influences between authors and readers”.
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Three Poems by Zama Madinana (South Africa)
we don’t have homes anymore wrapped in a dark cloud angry floods have swept away our peace & solace buried alive in mudslides of devastation we don’t have homes anymore a church is not a home there’s a torrent of fear here a school is not a home there’s a…
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A New Poem by Marko Phiri (Zimbabwe)
Once We Were: a Poem We rode busesThe type where you felt ridiculous as you sat facing other passengersAlbion, they were called Albion, that old EmpireWe Christened these transporters all kinds of namesThey huffed, they puffedNot once did we see them out of actionWe chatted with the conductorsAnd envied their work ethicWe watched the…
