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Book excerpts

Read an excerpt from ‘Dinner with Dambudzo’ by Nthikeng Mohlele, from his new short story collection The Discovery of Love

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021Nthikeng MohleleLeave a Comment on Read an excerpt from ‘Dinner with Dambudzo’ by Nthikeng Mohlele, from his new short story collection The Discovery of Love

The JRB presents an excerpt from The Discovery of Love, the new collection of short stories from Nthikeng Mohlele. The…

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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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News

Remembering Marechera: Humboldt University hosts archive of the Zimbabwean author’s estate

August 7, 2017August 15, 2017Sophy Kohler1 Comment on Remembering Marechera: Humboldt University hosts archive of the Zimbabwean author’s estate

There is a black-and-white portrait of Dambudzo Marechera, taken in Harare in 1986 by the Dutch photographer Ernst Schade, that…

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Africa

[Temporary Sojourner] How little has changed in thirty-nine years: Efemia Chela reads Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger

June 5, 2017June 4, 2020Efemia Chela1 Comment on [Temporary Sojourner] How little has changed in thirty-nine years: Efemia Chela reads Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger

The House of Hunger Dambudzo Marechera First published Pantheon Books 1978; this edition Heinemann African Writers Series 2009 We knew…

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