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A Stanza of Hope for Zimbabwean Poets

"You guys need some magic in your poetry, you just do not have it. You go around vomiting words. Go back to the classics and study how things are done. I am sorry to insult you but I think insulting you is the best form of motivation."

Making Love to Batsirai Chigama’s Words

Batsirai Chigama has a gift for words. They come together in her head in poetic ways that language teachers cannot have taught her, but that only drops of magical divine gifting must have made possible.

Book Piracy, Will it End?

The book industry has suffered calamitously from the national economic meltdown of the turn of the century as well as a rampant book piracy which has culminated in the creation of a parallel "mafia economy" run by intellectual cynical book thieves.

Tackling Bullying with Cartoons

#LITERATURE For many decades now, the issue of bullying has been a talking point in many local schools. Though many measures have been tried to root out this unruly behavior, to a greater extent they have failed as many still fall victim to its perpetrators.

NoViolet Bulawayo Scoops Etisalat Prize

#LITERATURE Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo, real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature for debut fiction, for her novel ‘We Need New Names’, in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday February 23, 2014.