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Abdulrazak Gurnah distils the precarious experience of the exile, the refugee and the asylum seeker into his novels. (Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images)

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent

Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels

Lewis Nkosi at the Drum offices (BAHA/Africamediaonline)

Lewis Nkosi: The physical bearer of the offending word

In his lifetime, Lewis Nkosi arguably saw little effort in terms of intense engagement with his controversial critical inputs. In a review of a new anthology, Unathi Slasha tries…

A portrait of Dambudzo Marechera based on a photograph by Ernst Schade. (Painting: Mongezi Ncombo)

Dambudzo Marechera: The biggest tree in the savannah

Dambudzo Marechera continues to nourish Zimbabweans’ cultural lives — and literary tourists from northern climes

Uthuli Othulini, a series of images from the work of Nkazimulo Moyeni

what life; i insist on dying here

Mbe Mbhele meditates on death and blackness on the occasion of his father’s funeral

Flora Veit-Wild and Dambudzo Marechera in the garden of the  Veit-Wilds’ family home in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1985. (Lourdes Arruti)

Capturing Dambudzo Marechera: A review of Flora Veit-Wild’s memoir

Flora Veit-Wild’s memoir provides a disquieting look into the author’s relationship with Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera

‘An essay game is a modest experiment. It’s basically an attempt, an incomplete form that tries to rearrange existing knowledge.’ (Image courtesy of artist)

Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’

Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation

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’s Court, Harare. (Image: Parade Magazine)

Dambudzo Marechera’s literary shock treatment

A new book on Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera draws on both actual and imaginary archives

Majority rule: Zimbabweans struggled for many years to achieve majority rule peacefully, but faced with a white minority determined to hold on to privileges, the armed struggle became the only option. (Basler Afrika Bibliographien)

Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary: Marley and the birth of Zimbabwe

The iconic concert to celebrate independence in Zimbabwe would prove to contain a warning

Tinashe Mushakavahu  (Delwyn Verasamy)

Threading 40 years of Zimbabwean writing

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

What exile means to creatives

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…

What would Dambudzo be saying?

Tinashe Mushakavanhu has an imaginary conversation with Dambudzo Marechera

Decisions on how to actualise the book visually were influenced by its contents and the Black Chalk and Co crew’s ethos

Book’s design helps retrace steps over time

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

Dambudzo Marechera: Africa’s literary doppelgänger

As Zimbabwe prepares for ­Independence Day on April 18, Charne Lavery looks at one of that country’s greatest literary sons.