Registered under the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe

13 June 2010


MEMORIAL READINGS FOR MUPFUDZA LIKELY


The late Stanley Ruzvidzo Mupfudza


A reading event to commemorate the late Stanley Ruzvidzo Mupfudza (writer , teacher and journalist) – pictured above, is likely to take place sometime next month in Harare. In May, a group of writing friends led by author and academic Memory Chirere (http://memorychirere.blogspot.com/2010/05/ruzvidzo-stanley-mupfudza-obituary-by-html) , who is also one of Mupfudza’s contemporaries, met at the National Art Gallery to deliberate on how and when the event should take place. The group also visited Mupfudza’s residence in Southerton.

Activities will include readings of his works and testimonies from those who worked with him. A brief documentary is also likely to be produced out of this memorial.


BRIEF RAISON D'ÊTRE OF WIN-ZIMBABWE

(Director’s Desk)


Why network?

Removing communication barriers and all other kinds of barriers/ reaching out to the marginalized but talented writers groups/ creating a sense of solidarity

We note that networking, just as I am doing right now with you the reader, solve misunderstandings, disagreements, but also bring divergence of literary opinions and methods of doing things.

Writers International Network Zimbabwe believes there are many ways of networking as writers, these include

§ Sharing resources and information

§ Working together on one project

§ Supporting one another morally or otherwise

This is the underlying principle of Win-Zimbabwe, please do not hesitate to share with us your ideas. Email: winzimbabwe@gmail.com



TO LIFT OR NOT LIFT THE WORLD CUP



The world’s greatest footballers are in town (Africa) in the middle of unprecedented mania of African pride. Known decades ago as the Dark Continent by some historians Africa today takes another step forward into the global limelight, hosting the biggest ever-sporting event in Africa. Despite the gravel and bumps along its road to total independence, Mama Africa has risen once again, generously raising her dish higher for the world to appease their cultural appetites and survive. For a moment, thousands of soccer fans in South Africa and millions more at home around the world will experience African sport, arts, and culture at close range. What this 2010 soccer extravaganza has done– inasmuch fashion as the Obama-mania did – is to remind us that the continent is still part of the world, and has potential to host the world in all sectors of human life. June/July 2010 is an unforgettable season when those dream-seeds continue to germinate, richly fed by the African nutrients of undying quest for respect, love, unity, and peace. The Golden Cup is in town. Today, Africa screams the vuvuzela song out to the highest mountains of the world. Today and forever, may nothing hold back the song, the song of Africa, our motherland, our world.

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