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Dr. Charles Mungoshi passes away
Multi-award winning novelist , poet , short story writer and actor Dr. Charles Mungoshi has pass away. He was 71.
Multi-award winning novelist , poet , short story writer and actor Dr. Charles Mungoshi has pass away. He was 71.
Charles Mungoshi continues on the path to recovery and this morning travelled to Bulawayo to spend a month at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) Rehabilitation Centre.
Charles Mungoshi is speaking again. In a remarkable journey that led to a medical operation on the eve of Good Friday, Mungoshi said his first words in many months on Saturday. One if his first requests was for a copy of his son’s book, Behind the Wall Everywhere.
The first round of a campaign to raise funds for Charles Mungoshi to get a brain operation has been successful and the iconic writer has his operation set to happen in the next few weeks.
Renowned Zimbabwean writer, Charles Mungoshi, is in need of repeat operation, after doctors at a government hospital inserted a shunt to drain water from his brain last year. The shunt is not working, so liquid building up in his skull and putting pressure on his brain.
Charles Mungoshi Jnr recently (in mid March) launched 'The Campaign Book Sale Initiative' aimed at raising funds for the treatment of his father, Dr Charles Mungoshi.
These ten short stories at times pithy and acerbic, ironic and humorous, cut right across the troubled human landscape of Zimbabwe today. They look at Zimbabwean life, at home and in the diaspora, through the unblinking eye of a formidable new talent on the literary scene.
Charles Mungoshi Jnr launched his first book at the Book Cafe on Friday December 12.