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Features April 18, 2020

Six Great Zimbabwean Novels, from Classic to Contemporary

It’s Zimbabwe’s Independence Day! To mark the occasion, we’ve picked six novels that showcase the richness of Zimbabwean literature. Some of these are classics of the African literary canon; the more contemporary ones have received numerous accolades. Which of these have you read? The House of Hunger (1978), by Dambudzo Marechera The House of Hunger is […]

Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger Out in Chinese

The iconic Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger has been translated into Chinese. First published in 1978 as part of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, the book is a collection of a novella and nine satellite short stories, and has widely been noted as a commentary on the author’s own troubled, tragically short life. […]

Zimbabwean Mapping Project Documents the Movements of Dambudzo Marechera in Harare

An unusual mapping project has documented the movements of Dambudzo Marechera in Harare. “Home Means Nothing to Me,” published in the June 2018 issue of Chimurenga’s The Chronic titled “The Invention of Zimbabwe,” is the brainchild of three Zimbabwean creatives: Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, and Simba Mafundikwa. Their work was shortlisted for the 2018 Brittle Paper Award for […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction: Meet the 8 Finalists

The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in October. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The $1,100 prize is split across five categories: the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Poetry ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing The 5 Shortlists

Update: For failure to attribute an original source, the Caine Prize, in September 2019, removed Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives” from its 2019 shortlist, while Short Story Day Africa released a statement on intertextuality. Because we believe it to have resulted from inexperience rather than intentional withholding, we did not withdraw it from our […]

African Literary Horoscope | Cancer — the Homemakers of the Zodiac

[AFRICAN LITERARY HOROSCOPE is a series featuring satirical astrological interpretations. The idea is to adapt African fiction and poetic works to the needs of readers born under each sign of the Zodiac. We are kicking off the series with Cancer, the sign that falls within June 21 and July 22. If you were born under the sign […]

Happy Birthday, Dambudzo Marechera!

If Dambudzo Marechera were still alive, he’d have been celebrating his 63rd birthday today. The Zimbabwean author, best known for the experimental fiction titled The House of Hunger, is to African literature what Fela Kuti is to African music. Marechera was born in in Rusape, Zimbabwe on June 4 1952 and lived a troubled and enigmatic life. […]

“Where A Ghost Has Rights” — Review of Chris Abani’s Secret History of Las Vegas

Pub. Date: Jan 7, 2014. Penguin. 319 pp. Download HERE. In a 1986 interview, the Zimbabwean novelist, Dambudzo Marachera, speaks of a strange artistic sensibility. He speaks of how the will to write often takes him to “a region where a ghost has rights.” In the same interview, he confesses to having a bizarre fascination […]