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

It has been 25 years since the death of Dambudzo Marechera, the joker of African literature and its anti-hero.

<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> delves into proverbs and finds the chauvinistic, the obscene and the dirty.

Percy Zvomuya looks at Zimbabwe’s literary enfant terrible Charles Dambudzo Marechera’s ambivalent place in African literature.