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Flying high: For Innovative novelist Yvonne Vera, writing was a transcendental experience (Mai Palmberg)
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‘Writing is about revelations and reversals’

In this essay novelist Yvonne Vera let us in on her writing process

  • Yvonne Vera
8 min read
Tinashe Mushakavahu (Delwyn Verasamy)
AT THE HEAD OF THE STREAM

Threading 40 years of Zimbabwean writing

Kwanele Sosibo talks to Tinashe Mushakavanhu, the co-editor of Some Writers Can Give you Two Heartbeats, about the impetus behind the book

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read
CORRUPTION

What would Dambudzo be saying?

Tinashe Mushakavanhu has an imaginary conversation with Dambudzo Marechera

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu
7 min read
Charles Mungoshi and Dambudzo Marechera in Harare, May 1987. (Ernst Schade)
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Dedicated to Heartbeats

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats has been in my possession since August 22, 2019, which was when co-editor Tinashe Mushakavanhu first handed it to me at a book event.…

  • Kwanele Sosibo
1 min read