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Essays

Voices as powerful as guns: Panashe Chigumadzi on Dorothy Masuka’s (w)ri(o)ting woman-centred Pan-Africanism

May 6, 2019April 9, 2020Panashe ChigumadziLeave a Comment on Voices as powerful as guns: Panashe Chigumadzi on Dorothy Masuka’s (w)ri(o)ting woman-centred Pan-Africanism

The JRB Contributing Editor Panashe Chigumadzi presents a new reading of the work, career and life of Dorothy Masuka, arguing that…

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Africa

James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war book Black Fire!

September 4, 2017September 4, 2017Percy Zvomuya6 Comments on James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war book Black Fire!

In the late nineteen-seventies, James Baldwin encountered an ‘extraordinary and illuminating’ Rhodesian book, which influenced his thought around black rage…

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