Friday

Artist Dada Khanyisa on responding to the opportunities that their practice offers them, by all means necessary

In this essay novelist Yvonne Vera let us in on her writing process

Kwanele Sosibo talks to Tinashe Mushakavanhu, the co-editor of Some Writers Can Give you Two Heartbeats, about the impetus behind the book

Clockwise from top left: Maurice T Nyagumbo, Ruth Nomonde Chinamano, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Ziyaphapha Manyika, Johanna Nkomo and Robson Manyika. The stamps appear in the book as a way of writing Zimbabwe’s lesser known political figures into the canon

Gibson Mandishona on how he helped compose a reggae classic

In 1980 Zimbabwe barely had a literature scene to speak of. Independence brought with it a short-lived local publishing boom

Tinashe Mushakavanhu has an imaginary conversation with Dambudzo Marechera

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats is a conceptual book that employs a wide range of visual, typographic and structural strategies....

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats has been in my possession since August 22, 2019, which was when co-editor Tinashe...

Danai Gurira on theatre and representation

With Zimbabwe on the brink of turning 40, a new book takes an unconventional route to putting the country's post-liberation canon into perspective

In this response to Judy Seidman, Njabulo Zwane defends a Black Radical Tradition of refusing the notion of work itself