“The intense, slightly aggressive young man made an immediate impression. But the intensity was real. And the writing talent which was being applauded was real. And the aggression or anger was real, ...

Harare — SATURDAY, August 18 2007, marked the 20th anniversary of the death of literature, playwright and poetry icon, Dambudzo Marechera, celebrated at the National Art Gallery in Harare. Many ...

He was thrown out of New College, Oxford, for haphazard tutorial attendance or, the story goes, for attempting to set fire to a building. He counted Percy Bysshe Shelley as his role model in rebellion ...

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 ...

My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don't know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a ...

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 ...

She savours her romantic experiences in the arms of an enigmatic, if somewhat eccentric genius and talented writer who captured the attention of literary critics at home and abroad in the early 80s.

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 ...

Nora Chipaumire’s “Dambudzo” transforms BAM into a radical, immersive space for African diasporic performance and resistance ...

In the post-independence era, a multi-layered perception has replaced the dichotomies of the anti-colonial struggle. But white Africanists still have a bias towards a nation-based outlook and favour ...