Marechera, Dambudzo Veit-Wild, Flora 1947-Summary "This is a collection of Marechera's last writings, evoking city life with its many disparate facets - from the glittering fashion shops in First ...

But the patronising paradigm’s strength is clear in the sheer shock occasioned by the work of the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987). Mindblast (1984), the last book printed during ...

President Robert Mugabe, Ministers Enoch Skala, Maurice Nyagumbo and Emmerson Mnangagwa consoling Dambudzo Marechera at the site of the bomb blast that killed his sister Tsitsi in May 1987 at Earl ...

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 figure. Marechera became an ...

Flora Veit-Wild and Dambudzo Marechera in the garden of the Veit-Wilds’ family home in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1985. (Lourdes Arruti) They Called You Dambudzo mobilises the genre of the memoir to ...

Dambudzo Marechera wrote about rough and rowdy days on the edge of town. His stories of violence, grim survival and soul hunger in Rusape, London, Cardiff and Harare emphasise street cred over love.

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 figure.

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.

If Dambudzo Marechera had not existed, Zimbabwe would have invented him." I am reminded of how Frantz Fanon wrote about culture in colonised countries. In The Wretched of the Earth, he posited that ...

From The Independent archive: China Mieville on ‘Mindblast’ by Dambudzo Marechera ...