When Marechera was 11, his father died. The memory of the death haunts Marechera and evokes lost childhood happiness, and occasionally seems to refer directly to his family’s crisis.

Dambudzo Marechera is heralded by a young generation as a radical and counter-culture figure. In reading letters sent to Dambudzo, the author found that they function as a space of knowledge and ...

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 ...

In They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir (Jacana, 2020), Flora Veit-Wild opens a gloomy window onto her private life, her relationship with Dambudzo Marechera and Marechera’s own life as seen by ...

The vastly different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond the subject matter.

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.

But the patronising paradigm’s strength is clear in the sheer shock occasioned by the work of the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987).

Poet Tinashe Mushakavanhu has been compared to Dambudzo Marechera. eshuneutics disagrees: The gaps are more to do with a poet learning a visual syntax whereas the breaks in Marechera are a ...

But she also recalls how she loathed ever getting entangled in the world of this witty, tricky and complex character called Dambudzo Marechera.

Running until Saturday, The House of Hunger is a pioneering new stage adaptation of the award-winning novella by the Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera (1952 - 1987).