This Is Africa announces 2022 as the year of "Return to Marechera." The great Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987), would have turned 70 this year. This Is Africa announces 2022 as the ...

What's race got to do with it? Dambudzo Marechera channelled his Oxford swag, Rastaman aura and leftist virtue signalling to chat up White writer-types. His stated preference for White girlfriends has ...

Zimbabwean novelist Dambudzo Marechera is a “new post-nationalist writer”, says Nigerian writer Helon Habila, author of Oil on Water. Such was the complexity of Dambudzo Marechera’s work that he ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The writer Dambudzo Marechera , who died on 18 August 1987, remains a popular figure in Zimbabwe. He is heralded by a young generation as a radical and counter-culture ...

In the last few years my research as a scholar of Zimbabwean literature has shifted towards the archive — its creation, or absences. I am interested in what remains, after people, especially writers, ...

The cliches about that non-category “African ‘literature” have it that, particularly for prose fiction, it has tended to gravitate towards a social(ist), or a vaguely magic, realism. While there are ...

One of the most significant pieces of African literature is the novel, The House of Hunger, which will be brought to life outside the DUT Courtyard Theatre this week. Running until Saturday, The House ...