Category: Books

Preview of Tsvangirai book: At the Deep End

Preview of Tsvangirai book: At the Deep End

A founding member and leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai came to prominence as a political force in the late 1990s.

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NoViolet Bulawayo

Bulawayo writer wins literature prize

NoViolet Bulawayo, a woman who hails from New Lobengula in Bulawayo, has scooped this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing. Her winning short story called Hitting Budapest, is about the adventures of a group of poor children from a shanty town who decide to raid a well off neighbourhood for guavas.

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PM Tsvangirai

Tsvangirai speech at ZCTU book launch

Talking Points by the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, the Right Hon. Morgan Tsvangirai at the occasion of the launch of “Beyond the Enclave”. I am happy to be with you today to celebrate this newest book by Zimbabweans yearning for a bright future for this country and its citizens.

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Book review: Lazaruses & Divases

Book review: Lazaruses & Divases

Wellingtone G. Kusema’s collection of poems Lazaruses and Divases is about the chasm that exists between the rich and the poor. In more than one poem Kusema makes this plain, he pulls no punches from the very onset with a very `hard hitting poem milk sanctions

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First science fiction novel in Shona

First science fiction novel in Shona

UK based Zimbabwean author, Masimba Musodza, has ushered in a new era in Zimbabwean literature by publishing the definitive first science-fiction/horror novel in ChiShona and the first in that language to be available on amazon Kindle.

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Book review of Shona novel Dzimbabwedande

Book review of Shona novel Dzimbabwedande

By Brilliant Pongo Although a work of fiction, valuable history lessons can be derived from this well written Shona novel. Probably the first of its genre, it is pregnant with immense historical, educational as well as politically relevant content. Published by Heritage Press, the 356-page novel captures the reader’s imagination [...]

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Political tolerance ‘dangerously’ low: Hove

Political tolerance ‘dangerously’ low: Hove

Exiled writer and poet Chenjerai Hove who left Zimbabwe almost a decade ago following threats on his life says political tolerance in the country is still ‘dangerously’ low making it hard for exiles to return.

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Henry Olonga

Exiled cricketer Henry Olonga on BTH: Part 1

In this two part series on Behind the Headlines SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to exiled Zimbabwean cricketer Henry Olonga. In 2003 Olonga and his teammate, Andy Flower, wore a black arm band in a Cricket World Cup match to protest the death of democracy under Mugabe’s regime.

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Henry Olonga

Henry Olonga to release book on his life

Henry Olonga the first black player and youngest ever cricketer to play for Zimbabwe internationally will be releasing an autobiography on the 19th July in the United Kingdom where he is now in exile. Olonga made his international debut in a Test match against Pakistan at Harare in 1995, at [...]

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