“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, ...

What's race got to do with it? Dambudzo Marechera channelled his Oxford swag, Rastaman aura and leftist virtue signalling to chat up White writer-types. His stated preference for White girlfriends has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dambudzo Marechera is heralded by a young generation as a radical and counter-culture figure. In reading letters sent to Dambudzo, the author found that they function as a space of knowledge and ...

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 ...

„Defiantly charismatic, the Zimbabwean-born choreographer nora chipaumire has long been a kind of rock star of dance.” The New Yorker Paintings, sculptures, sounds, dance - choreographer nora ...

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 ...