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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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