tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64687761760613793402024-03-14T21:35:40.241+02:00Writers International Network ZimbabweA blog for serious writersEmmanuel Sigaukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04171063918198721862noreply@blogger.comBlogger372125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-26268404357366915002024-03-13T15:24:00.003+02:002024-03-13T15:57:08.101+02:00WIN LITERARY NEWSLETTER, VOL 2, ISSUE NO 22<p> </p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">EDITORIAL</span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Greetings and welcome to
our newsletter after long silence. We really appreciate your patience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, the
main organizer of the National Arts Merit Awards, continues to recognize
our elders for their great work in the writing industry. We have Dr T K Tsodzo
in mind, who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award this year. To him
we say, your wisdom is our inspiration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We hope to return soon
with the next Issue. Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;">CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2024 NAMA AWARDS
WINNERS (LITERARY CATEGORY)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) were held in Bulawayo on Saturday evening,
Feb 24, 2024, under the theme </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">#KWAN22. Our interest is in the
literary arts, and we say congratulations to the following winners in the said
category:</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Lifetime Achievement Award</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Outstanding First Creative Published Work</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Train House on Lobengula</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Street
by Fatima Kara<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaojeDVhV-DQqsE5ebK_qbj1FsZSJsiZQAR289_RnYUpO9OsH_o_VTZOxPoVYDphFYHrrI8UsFBm6jcXRvo5MuYoxf8a2bN8QrwAw3OXt4vDZO4wpOeA4ZIFyxgQ2WU0kvBjAzD8dakW23DsBzr-bp2s0D8M989UyyqS7gPFK1qraCK5vVDQJkgz3Y40/s2401/train%20house%20front%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2401" data-original-width="1495" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaojeDVhV-DQqsE5ebK_qbj1FsZSJsiZQAR289_RnYUpO9OsH_o_VTZOxPoVYDphFYHrrI8UsFBm6jcXRvo5MuYoxf8a2bN8QrwAw3OXt4vDZO4wpOeA4ZIFyxgQ2WU0kvBjAzD8dakW23DsBzr-bp2s0D8M989UyyqS7gPFK1qraCK5vVDQJkgz3Y40/w249-h400/train%20house%20front%20cover.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQs_N21Wd6eJslUJTLFvY8G75MCKbeH3vCBCOjbk8Gz5pgJmkvvVqxbZHkDtbLcHfZxxRFIRch9zapHA4iIQbtxT_-_9AU7qfq5-2e_7W01vU0rbZudznjzQPxfGbLCvXXTaoEy98jRQ5wAlYEC7fUvA0ylwY_vw7dHx_CasGULfMANLRKw0UkwkSbPxc/s640/fatima.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQs_N21Wd6eJslUJTLFvY8G75MCKbeH3vCBCOjbk8Gz5pgJmkvvVqxbZHkDtbLcHfZxxRFIRch9zapHA4iIQbtxT_-_9AU7qfq5-2e_7W01vU0rbZudznjzQPxfGbLCvXXTaoEy98jRQ5wAlYEC7fUvA0ylwY_vw7dHx_CasGULfMANLRKw0UkwkSbPxc/w268-h400/fatima.jpeg" width="268" /></a></div></o:p></span></b><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Fatima
Kara </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Outstanding Children’s Book</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Haunted Pumpkin</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> by Mai
Sarungano Folktales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrP3WPxl9l9VGE-xCf0TlDwo46VTb-OO7y9uEIOMHh4jE9RVmo3NWUFal9aCXQgW2N8dN-aN3z2ITQYOtItAWT0VweTYST-X4mKNkxoA6oCLoxtPLWvtCCfUsRlUbM2F44q3_m34mR6ARLqh1bSJyEvya8Twp341u1Az1iAIYzrjbFRTl-krYReyM6XM/s425/cover%20of%20The%20Haunted%20Pumpkin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="266" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrP3WPxl9l9VGE-xCf0TlDwo46VTb-OO7y9uEIOMHh4jE9RVmo3NWUFal9aCXQgW2N8dN-aN3z2ITQYOtItAWT0VweTYST-X4mKNkxoA6oCLoxtPLWvtCCfUsRlUbM2F44q3_m34mR6ARLqh1bSJyEvya8Twp341u1Az1iAIYzrjbFRTl-krYReyM6XM/w250-h400/cover%20of%20The%20Haunted%20Pumpkin.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Outstanding Fiction Book</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">UKhethiwe</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> by Zibusiso Mabonisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsKOL9oy1c3z7itT_AqGCHZMUUE4zvoEzJmuoszEAfSOaCchP8fr2MX2qoBq097Lo3FYhZvbK8NKgVspNrY5lESK-bUuE4Ff5V4hMgCsjlP5qNCmzPT62s8vA-jMG84-IgGITUMBppVNiiN9GmtXYDo5s8rZSOLpaljiJNt4Lx7iMloq7S0vAFqEZv4s/s590/sibusiso2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="585" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsKOL9oy1c3z7itT_AqGCHZMUUE4zvoEzJmuoszEAfSOaCchP8fr2MX2qoBq097Lo3FYhZvbK8NKgVspNrY5lESK-bUuE4Ff5V4hMgCsjlP5qNCmzPT62s8vA-jMG84-IgGITUMBppVNiiN9GmtXYDo5s8rZSOLpaljiJNt4Lx7iMloq7S0vAFqEZv4s/s320/sibusiso2.jpg" width="317" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6wQIwkzTnshryNuz-R0THyNjVyNFt16rKmrXzbikXp8-YVgBL1pqh0bDYOhdRAuH1li8piRsriBId_ndwRy0yQHBvWiWaWU5bGRoBNWk5tWPEwii3wz86mc5GEywiylwOBHA5GE6x1IHvvMTb8fwZHkvtWHuZsqi1tNdLUFwDY6vVd7Uu50Y7Ia5O6I/s275/zibusiso.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6wQIwkzTnshryNuz-R0THyNjVyNFt16rKmrXzbikXp8-YVgBL1pqh0bDYOhdRAuH1li8piRsriBId_ndwRy0yQHBvWiWaWU5bGRoBNWk5tWPEwii3wz86mc5GEywiylwOBHA5GE6x1IHvvMTb8fwZHkvtWHuZsqi1tNdLUFwDY6vVd7Uu50Y7Ia5O6I/w400-h266/zibusiso.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Zibusiso C Mabonisa</i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /> </o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Outstanding Poetry Book</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shamhu Yezera Renyu</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> by
Memory Chirere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqZjqz8GRKky_CSB7-G_I2ykrqnM41gl3jrDAi7_ElKKnDX07_HFmIDG9-qoChNyi2hFj5WTYQplLm-39CKDsJrTe_MB4nyUUNC3HsZm35CyPwByYSSRki5hnuamCpU38OPBPblr8R2p_aui838DlpD6fnMOHJDwO0nLWSGmGqjpz90JU1tYx1rZ9pofM/s499/Shamhu-shamhu%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqZjqz8GRKky_CSB7-G_I2ykrqnM41gl3jrDAi7_ElKKnDX07_HFmIDG9-qoChNyi2hFj5WTYQplLm-39CKDsJrTe_MB4nyUUNC3HsZm35CyPwByYSSRki5hnuamCpU38OPBPblr8R2p_aui838DlpD6fnMOHJDwO0nLWSGmGqjpz90JU1tYx1rZ9pofM/w268-h400/Shamhu-shamhu%20cover.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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Chirere</i></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Outstanding Poet</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwaMs246lIlSSVakSmkjDL0wo7-cnsnwnL7cqi8JB_gi0k4zHG2deYqgetMD81si6QabIWKhjMOyyoSeHgalgsu5mItgW4aBCcvhOG3jlinMgnrM4nPk3J37XB7riPPT79Et2QbcApQ8WMIeh7lN9YdkAOY8Fisn1EEOSATDNxbyDrd3Gz9RiB9F_Vhg/s600/Guramatunhu-2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="600" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwaMs246lIlSSVakSmkjDL0wo7-cnsnwnL7cqi8JB_gi0k4zHG2deYqgetMD81si6QabIWKhjMOyyoSeHgalgsu5mItgW4aBCcvhOG3jlinMgnrM4nPk3J37XB7riPPT79Et2QbcApQ8WMIeh7lN9YdkAOY8Fisn1EEOSATDNxbyDrd3Gz9RiB9F_Vhg/s320/Guramatunhu-2.gif" width="320" /></a></b></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Ngonidzashe
Paradza aka Mambo Guramatunhu</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Outstanding Online Media</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Muleya</i> (Heart and Soul)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">THE NYANGA WRITERS RETREAT</span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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left</b>: Beaven Tapureta, Dr Jonathan
Brakash, Tendai Huchu, Stanley Mushava and Blessing Musariri</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Some writers go on retreats with a specific structure which
subtly or openly calls for participants to have a refined product at the end.
There are benefits, of course, drawn from these retreats which involve working
with experienced facilitators who closely follow your development for weeks or
months. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://munyori.org/2024/03/the-nyanga-writers-retreat-sets-example/" target="_blank">READ MORE</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">BELOW ARE A FEW PHOTOS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /></span></b></p>
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the Froggy Farm Cafe upstairs</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgewl07AT0nshQ0BTTArFNs5SzRmkC-8onYcP0zeDG8NzljpqOhOppi1cvzgv1MU8hCxv9sUiuva4RTa92dx-6__hM4kKyg31eRIHqMT7JlQommuhoej0B0IIM0hMb4ud44wngcp2HdOaaWOqY06tmy599nmXtoA0n52zilhJmcVwAiDbyZL1zedrkfgJk/s768/dr%20j%20brakarsh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="576" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgewl07AT0nshQ0BTTArFNs5SzRmkC-8onYcP0zeDG8NzljpqOhOppi1cvzgv1MU8hCxv9sUiuva4RTa92dx-6__hM4kKyg31eRIHqMT7JlQommuhoej0B0IIM0hMb4ud44wngcp2HdOaaWOqY06tmy599nmXtoA0n52zilhJmcVwAiDbyZL1zedrkfgJk/w300-h400/dr%20j%20brakarsh.jpg" width="300" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr Jonathan Brakarsh</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVnUcjj2Bidq5-CHwQ9Is9lmE1RYpUivff-fbdjO2ouC6R1oMftU-B05rC3xxrDYlA16EoJ6bVCeDdrfvoxIc9lIaUGS4AWKz0ayMFLlI_VAld38-K28N6t_3UczYu4crAp22_if-sWtK4HBen5-V_SXEr1Q7Dn9y7ZkAQJO7gxNoZLaCNQApaC9I5tI/s557/tendai%20with%20a%20thank%20you%20card%20and%20a%20bottle%20of%20wine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="447" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVnUcjj2Bidq5-CHwQ9Is9lmE1RYpUivff-fbdjO2ouC6R1oMftU-B05rC3xxrDYlA16EoJ6bVCeDdrfvoxIc9lIaUGS4AWKz0ayMFLlI_VAld38-K28N6t_3UczYu4crAp22_if-sWtK4HBen5-V_SXEr1Q7Dn9y7ZkAQJO7gxNoZLaCNQApaC9I5tI/w321-h400/tendai%20with%20a%20thank%20you%20card%20and%20a%20bottle%20of%20wine.jpg" width="321" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tendai Huchu with the ‘Thank You’ card he received from the retreat participants, in the background
is Mr Gwagwa of Blue Haze</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;">BHUTSU
DZAMERENIYA </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;">IS A HUMOROUS KIDS' STORY</span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beaven
Tapureta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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spur children to want to read </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">Bhutsu DzaMereniya</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">
is the cover design. The cover’s portrayal of an action scene stimulates a
keenness to open and read the book. The illustrated Shona children’s story was
written by Mutare-based writer Simbarashe Clever Kavenga and published by
Essential Books Publishing Company in 2022.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mereniya
is a young girl who earns ‘celebrity status’ at her school because of her pair
of strange, black, leather shoes which her mates admire although they are
puzzled by the shoes’ history as told by her. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mereniya
enjoys giving perplexing answers whenever the other kids gather around her just
to listen to the story of her shoes. But because they admire her so much, they
love her exaggerations and pretend it’s truth, which keeps them laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At some
point, for instance, Mereniya tells her school mates, “Teererai, teererai mose,
handidi anozondibvunzazve mangwana. Imwe yakatengwa kwaMutare imwe ikatengwa
kwaRusape! Kuti imarii handizivi ini asi baba vanoti dzakavadhurira kwazvo….”
[pg. 7]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She is
a star and like any other trademark costumes of real life celebrities which are
kept in museums, her shoes deserve such recognition. Without them she loses
fans. It becomes other children’s dream to one day be allowed to wear her shoes
and when their dream remains a dream, they alienate themselves from her. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How the
author shows that Mereniya, though a child, is contemplative and humble is
quite gripping. Mereniya choses to hide her shoes in a forest near the school
so that she walks barefoot like most of her school mates. Even when her friends
alienate her, they can’t avoid the power of her heart. The author’s captivating
scenes and simple language also inspire the children to understand feelings of
love and kindness, as when a fire engulfs the forest where Mereniya has hidden
her shoes and all school lessons come to halt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By
drawing such peculiar attention to herself, she is an important child to the
school. Maybe before Mereniya appeared, the school was used to bullies. Now
here is a new girl who keeps them having fun, happy together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Simbarashe
Clever Kavenga, better known as Clever Kavenga in the writing circles, is a
poet, children’s fiction writer and journalist. His poems have appeared in the
anthologies such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ngoma Yokwedu,
Mudengu Munei?, Visions of the Motherland: A Poetic Celebration of Cultures,
Tribes and People of Africa</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Defiled
Sacredness.</i> His previous published children's books are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mashiripiti eDehwe RaRungano</i> which won
the 2007/8 Best Children's Book award from Zimbabwe Publishers Association.
His<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shona column “Nhasi Tiri Tose” which
appeared in the Mutare-based Pungwe newspaper made him be nominated for NAMA.
Nyanga is his home area but he is now based in the city of Mutare where he
lives with his family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more information,
contact the author: +263 77 269 1094</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;">THE WIN EPWORTH COMMUNITY LIBRARY UPDATE</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beaven
Tapureta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While young book lovers
all over the world marked World Book Day with various activities, the kids at
the Epworth community library spent the afternoon reading. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
World Book Day silently passed at the WIN library, but that didn’t water down
the children’s usual excitement and love for books. They daily come, except on
Sundays, to do their homework or read or play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The school holiday is fast approaching. For the kids, this is the period when the
library becomes a place of learning, fun, and building lasting friendships with
books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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library is grateful to all who have supported us in many different ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;">ZIM WRITER FARAI MUDZINGWA’S <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AVENUES BY TRAIN</i></span> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> Short</o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">listed for ‘The Republic of
Consciousness Prize’</span></b></p>
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of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avenues by Train</i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visit: </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/2024-shortlist" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></b></p>
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YOU FOR READING OUR</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> NEWSLETTER</span><o:p style="font-size: 18pt;"></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-42566144470649922992024-02-29T08:32:00.002+02:002024-02-29T08:32:31.407+02:00ZIM AUTHORS IN NYANGA FOR WRITERS RETREAT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9myzS7AHfvFm-4i0LDWiCekcqpDXvuapEviShYR7EBArYxP1l4SCdDFtRRAxDSlCCFrAYiEVeyR6Ozt04-vjrePP4AC-wnCukFqamF0PuyXWEwd7pD7D2d4fyAc7biDiMwPxYPIrluooJ9D-vG6SfDkIm_VX0GtmVA8kglhXPuABHzY_PSIkS_VlvjSI/s669/IMG_20240226_113945.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="421" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9myzS7AHfvFm-4i0LDWiCekcqpDXvuapEviShYR7EBArYxP1l4SCdDFtRRAxDSlCCFrAYiEVeyR6Ozt04-vjrePP4AC-wnCukFqamF0PuyXWEwd7pD7D2d4fyAc7biDiMwPxYPIrluooJ9D-vG6SfDkIm_VX0GtmVA8kglhXPuABHzY_PSIkS_VlvjSI/w402-h640/IMG_20240226_113945.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tendai Huchu, one of Zimbabwe's celebrated authors, is leading a group of fellow authors on a writers retreat in Nyanga</span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4D8DHAB4IE4wvkPKLMLEo9kroDSXMU2Z4IWcoYdQSEtMeJpT8c549xil1SV7KRoMBPfYIqmgdNH2rd8KAdBZDaHf_c-yz1fVwNOly6yn57m4JMjhqbm6r-dcRUWaKChglsdwhc9UTf42m_dzuCpvqNf0WW9yGhVx7ScVrqy_vVlu0D3KB_GFatxAprDw/s474/OIP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="474" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4D8DHAB4IE4wvkPKLMLEo9kroDSXMU2Z4IWcoYdQSEtMeJpT8c549xil1SV7KRoMBPfYIqmgdNH2rd8KAdBZDaHf_c-yz1fVwNOly6yn57m4JMjhqbm6r-dcRUWaKChglsdwhc9UTf42m_dzuCpvqNf0WW9yGhVx7ScVrqy_vVlu0D3KB_GFatxAprDw/w400-h223/OIP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Nyanga Mountain, highest mountain in Zimbabwe</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Photo: Manica Post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: courier;">DON'T MISS MORE ABOUT THE RETREAT AND OTHER NEWS IN OUR FORTHCOMING NEWSLETTER!</span></b></h1><div><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-69997018646844072472024-02-24T16:37:00.004+02:002024-02-24T16:37:39.355+02:00THANKS TO ESSENTIAL BOOKS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0qnUgY30CiKy0blwuXzIJmOF0Bd76NByYPYraipZSPw_SpCKd2_EDEzCi6b-o0xOkHDS0QGeEUHqFYkMX3rgmmyF-bnYm7J2iaj2vCLiF03-s_PHFRB0ChxfIyfObTcRqlfpxmSgfNlgnixzV0KM4s58k2XewML7ASuScb65PF37mKCtbMrxj7daQug/s3264/IMG_20190701_030148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0qnUgY30CiKy0blwuXzIJmOF0Bd76NByYPYraipZSPw_SpCKd2_EDEzCi6b-o0xOkHDS0QGeEUHqFYkMX3rgmmyF-bnYm7J2iaj2vCLiF03-s_PHFRB0ChxfIyfObTcRqlfpxmSgfNlgnixzV0KM4s58k2XewML7ASuScb65PF37mKCtbMrxj7daQug/w400-h300/IMG_20190701_030148.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;">Some of the children's books WIN received from Essential Books </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WIN-Zimbabwe continues to strengthen its ties with all book sector stakeholders, including local publishing houses.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In November last year, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Norton-based </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Essential Books Publishing Company, founded by writer Aleck Kaposa, donated children's books to WIN as a show of its support for the Epworth Community library project.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Essential Books joins the growing list of book donors who have presented WIN with exciting and educative books for children and adults. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Epworth Community Library project is like a writers' ark which WIN is building at its director's residence, thus its value will only be understood when the floods come! It aims to pragmatically promote reading culture in the community and beyond.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The major activity at the library has been the children's reading club. And naturally, the library is 'manufacturing' readers although it is working with limited resources.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Two weeks after its donation to WIN, Essential Books went on to hold its 2nd edition of Great Get-Together Book Launch on November 24, 2023, at the Afrotopia Cafe inside the National Art Gallery. More books were launched as writers and poets under the Essential stable read their works and/or spoke about their writing life. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The WIN director also spoke at the function and congratulated Essential Books authors for the hard work. However, he stressed one of the major weaknesses that most starting writers have, that they deem themselves 'established' after they rush to publish their raw works without thorough editing or consulting experienced people in the industry. Patience and faith, he said, are essential qualities crucial to the growth of a writer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The get-together indeed provided an opportunity for writers to exchange books and information.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrHrMOQl0Fartlhep9Pe4a2zpexHTi_7bIHmIE7niN5GgqziCQ6NE01PDFbezAbA3d9Dd1Raea_CjLPXgWtm7F7EPiSHujLs3i7jbHiC9-5Wn-WI3GEPYtRvLQUojfCqz4TaodHlqNpRiFbhJ6vg574o_YGRWJ5782HbMbNWfJzjy8HJbzGlRxPE3j9W8/s975/IMG-20231125-WA0030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="975" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrHrMOQl0Fartlhep9Pe4a2zpexHTi_7bIHmIE7niN5GgqziCQ6NE01PDFbezAbA3d9Dd1Raea_CjLPXgWtm7F7EPiSHujLs3i7jbHiC9-5Wn-WI3GEPYtRvLQUojfCqz4TaodHlqNpRiFbhJ6vg574o_YGRWJ5782HbMbNWfJzjy8HJbzGlRxPE3j9W8/w400-h261/IMG-20231125-WA0030.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Essential Books founder Aleck Kaposa {left} and WIN director Beaven Tapureta at the get-together </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">***</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Support reading culture! Support WIN with whatever that helps the library - books, furniture, stationery, etc. and the readers, the kids, will be grateful! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">THANK YOU.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Josefin Sans; font-size: large;">MORE IN OUR FORTHCOMING NEWSLETTER.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Josefin Sans;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-58962568520305436322024-02-23T13:12:00.001+02:002024-02-23T13:15:04.263+02:00MABASA TRANSLATES 'NERVOUS CONDITIONS'<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxf3Q_4nM9bkXTq2tM0H9j2fIz7hiJwf6UCXCenW41jKPwDe6xxnhIbzvbSAY1-GDpST0wVqWzA6WWfKDYtYeQBrQothjKgZI2q4F9o0rA2QPCNieXNMq7jf3pdgmEI2xwReHAmOdFcA-2Fbd9k-e3LoH3cLFb4pTinAC0hBfBkFW6tzrR5NlFW4CfggQ/s1920/tsitsi%20dangarebga.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1920" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxf3Q_4nM9bkXTq2tM0H9j2fIz7hiJwf6UCXCenW41jKPwDe6xxnhIbzvbSAY1-GDpST0wVqWzA6WWfKDYtYeQBrQothjKgZI2q4F9o0rA2QPCNieXNMq7jf3pdgmEI2xwReHAmOdFcA-2Fbd9k-e3LoH3cLFb4pTinAC0hBfBkFW6tzrR5NlFW4CfggQ/w400-h268/tsitsi%20dangarebga.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tsitsi Dangarebga, <span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: left;">the author of <i>Nervous Conditions,</i> a Zimbabwean classic. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="attribution" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #212121; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="source" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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Nervous Conditions was one of the books I was teaching. Coincidentally, 1999 is the year that my first novel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/Mapenzi/qLMaAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Mapenzi&dq=Mapenzi&printsec=frontcover" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #4b4b4e; font-size: 18px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mapenzi</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">was published and I used to talk to my students about the sad situation that there was more Zimbabwean literature in English than in indigenous languages.</span></span></i></div><p></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Josefin Sans;">I pointed out that the majority of the ordinary women whose story Nervous Conditions was telling would not be able to buy, read and understand Nervous Conditions in English, because of their literacy levels. I thought perhaps I could try to translate the book into Shona as a way of repatriating and decolonising the story. " - Ignatius Mabasa</span></i></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(51,168,204,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">READ FULL INTERVIEW <b><u><a href="https://theconversation.com/nervous-conditions-on-translating-one-of-zimbabwes-most-famous-novels-into-shona-222403" target="_blank">HERE</a></u></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #800180;">WIN LITERARY NEWSLETTER</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">COMING</span> <span style="color: #04ff00;">SOON</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #04ff00;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #04ff00;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #cccccc;">Thank you. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-61374941764403136852023-10-22T17:48:00.002+02:002023-10-23T12:23:18.090+02:00MANYIKA’S "BETWEEN STARSHINE AND CLAY" CELEBRATES ARICAN DIASPORANS<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Beaven Tapureta <i>- for Winzim Online</i></span></p>
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cover of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;">Between Starshine and Clay</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2HJ6sd82K8-7vXnArLda_z4Vq50Y8cXM6f4Al3mXPPpxTQPCvnRTmMr5ShazoRND5zShfqC9xKKDn-oBA-4oIMRSNkUp5ZC28WukWrtoFQXVpmWZdTq5gXaC3mLMB4obw1aC6hsKK131aY2KhjQVCuzoD05-tf3cFQTNVXDSv6tifj2r-gGytJSoSvY/s728/sarah%20ladipo%20manyika%20in%20harare%20reading%20from%20her%20novel%20LIKE%20A%20MULE%20BRINGING%20ICECREAM%20TO%20THE%20SUN.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="728" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2HJ6sd82K8-7vXnArLda_z4Vq50Y8cXM6f4Al3mXPPpxTQPCvnRTmMr5ShazoRND5zShfqC9xKKDn-oBA-4oIMRSNkUp5ZC28WukWrtoFQXVpmWZdTq5gXaC3mLMB4obw1aC6hsKK131aY2KhjQVCuzoD05-tf3cFQTNVXDSv6tifj2r-gGytJSoSvY/s320/sarah%20ladipo%20manyika%20in%20harare%20reading%20from%20her%20novel%20LIKE%20A%20MULE%20BRINGING%20ICECREAM%20TO%20THE%20SUN.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Renowned
US-based writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s non-fiction volume <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora </i>(2022,
Footnote Press)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>is a celebration of
twelve black global celebrities in different fields. Among these great men and
women is Zimbabwean civil rights activist Pastor Evan Mawarire of the
unforgettable #ThisFlag movement. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As
multi-layered as the book is, it is however the author’s continued search for
what home really means to the Africans in Africa and in the diaspora.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Starshine and Clay</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 1cm;">’s
portrayal of these much sought-after, high-profile people carries its own
historical exclusivity enhanced by the author’s patient observation and
research, resulting in these detailed, enlightening conversations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Poet
Claudia Rankine, documentary film-maker Xoliswa Sithole, Nobel Laureates Toni
Morrison and Wole Soyinka, feature in the first section ‘The Creators’ while
the second section, tagged ‘The Curators’, features<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr, publisher Margaret
Busby, Mrs Willard Harris, and actor and playwright Anna Deavere. They are ‘the
curators’ who somehow have been on a mission “to find and gather our stories
and histories, record them and make them accessible”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These individuals have, in their different
capacities, archived and told the usually under-told story of Africa and its
diaspora, of women and children. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
third and last section, ‘The Changemakers’, features Michelle Obama who was the
first Black American First Lady and an author too, parliamentarian Lord Michael
Hastings, who has done great work in the United Kingdom to address the plight
of the poor, the disadvantaged, and those in prison, civil rights activist
Pastor Evan Mawarire who became a voice for the voiceless Zimbabweans during
the late former president Robert Mugabe’s reign, and US Senator Cory Booker, a
champion of equality and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Manyika’s
detailed personal story ‘Notes of a Native Daughter’ which follows<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the insightful Foreword by Bernardine
Evaristo makes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a testament of its own,
an exploration<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of what being an African
means when looked<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from different
windows. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Having
had the unusual opportunity to talk to her and review her books in the past few
years, I am sure others agree she is a very passionate author devoted to probing
the multi-dimensional meaning of home especially with regard to those of
African descent wherever they may be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
twelve greats in the new book have their life experiences, ideas and
convictions, whether political or literary or artistic, captured with
liveliness which has now become the mark of the author.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
my past review<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>of her debut novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In-Dependence</i> (Weaver Press, 2014), I
noted how the main character Tayo, a university African student in Britain,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>falls in love and subsequently falls </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">into a different kind of ‘home’ where he learns to
explore his emotions more deeply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
aspect of ‘home’ is very interesting. Reading Manyika’s non-fiction book is the
same as viewing different dimensions which the meaning of ‘home’ has in the
minds of black people scattered across the world. The magnitude of her inquiry
into how it feels to be black or of African descent in a different society is
heart-deep. No wonder <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Between Starshine
and Clay </i>starts out with this Hurston quote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Sometimes, I feel
discriminated against, but it does not make me<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">angry. It merely
astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">pleasure of my company?
It’s beyond me.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">–
Zora Neale Hurston,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> How it Feels to be
Colored Me</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Some
of the conversations are sub-divided into two parts, ‘On Meeting’ and ‘In
Conversation’, others are singularly ‘In Conversation’ which are one-on-one
interviews but still one gets enamoured by the openness, depth of emotion, the
knowledge exchange between the interviewer and interviewee. The ‘On Meeting’
pieces show us Manyika at pleasure to observe, relate and describe outdoor and
indoor particulars of her subject. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
fact, she acknowledges, “This book has emerged from multiple interactions with
its twelve main subjects. Some pieces are essays, others are conversations. ‘On
Meetings’ grew from encounters with the person featured, and their works, over
time. ‘In Conversations’, as captured here, represent a single conversation,
lightly edited for flow – a snapshot, in most cases, of many more conversations
we have had over the years.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">With
the ‘On Meeting’ essays, Manyika walks you into Toni Morrison’s house and into
the great writer’s restroom where there are writers’ photos and literary
letters pasted on the walls, she lets you hear the humor echoing from Toni’s
study and you wish you could stay just a few more hours in the house. Through
her expert descriptive writing, she takes you closer to the endeared Obamas,
into the People’s House (White House), to the San Jose’s SAP arena where
Michelle Obama and Michele Norris are having an illuminating open talk. Oh I am
one of those who did not know that Michelle Obama is the author of the family
memoir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Becoming </i>which Manyika also analyzes.
And if you want more, Manyika is with you on the pages when she gets to a book
launch inside the Paul Webley Wing of London University’s School of Oriental
Studies (SOAS) where you meet various great and inspiring women, including
Margaret Busby, to whose house in Clerkenwell you are later transported. Margaret
is the celebrated ‘doyenne of Black British publishing’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
once described Manyika’s second novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like
A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun</i> in my review<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>as <span style="background: white;">‘…a courageous investigation
into the joys and vagaries of age, and at the same time, a subtle unveiling of
the racial battle running beneath multi-cultural American society’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus
the three books carry the author’s tireless clamour for a free and happy world
in which people are not judged on the basis of skin colour, a world in which
different political views are permitted, a world free from poverty and hunger.
This may sound too generalised an overall embrace of the three books but it
serves well to understand the author.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Manyika’s
latest book no doubt bursts from this deep source inside her, a powerful spring
that never runs dry, always giving out the divine water, the words for a global
garden of togetherness. To celebrate the courage and achievement of black
people in the global village is to celebrate universal legacy. However, the
conversations in the book turn personal each time the author puts across a
question about race or being black. This is a very sensitive issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
her recent interview with Open Country Magazine<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> she describes her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Between
Starshine and Clay </i>as ‘…conversations that speak to what we endlessly
aspire or strive towards — the idea of progress, of a fairer more equitable
society, of a better world for future generations. They are conversations that
touch on stories that are a reflection of all of us (any of us) and speak to
certain truths and universal human experiences.’<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the book, through attentive description, some things speak for themselves. For
Toni (she told Manyika she prefers ‘Toni’), Africa lives in her house. Her
‘home’s furnishings… with accents from Africa’ and ‘a small Shona sculpture’
tell of the pride she takes in being African (American). Manyika rightfully
writes about the house that it embodies ‘Harare, Lagos, Accra, Kingston’. Truly,
a home of cultural pride.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mario
Kaiser, who is accompanying Manyika when she meets Toni Morrison, asks: …Why
can skin color still make or break people in this country?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
Kaiser’s question, ‘this country’ refers to America. And Toni’s response is
rooted in history. She openly denounces white-skin supremacy or such labels as
‘I am a white Swede’ in America. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">‘On
Meeting’ Michelle Obama from a distance, Manyika is curious to ask the former
First Lady certain questions she had always wanted to ask, including “Did the
White House felt like a home, a fortress, or a prison?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Home,
what did Manyika want to know?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">However,
she never gets to ask this question when the two finally meet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Hastings, parliamentarian and also a
wide reader with </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">pan-African roots
stretching from India to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">in Angola. He now lives in the UK. He
talks about ‘changing the narrative’ when he is asked what he thinks about the
African Diaspora. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hastings
understanding is that Africans in the Diaspora must not be viewed simply as
just “great cultural bearers of heritage from another continent, but actually
as phenomenally intelligent academics, economists, medical experts, people who
are innovators, technicians, creators, drivers of wealth, supporters of
community and hospital workers.” He calls for “the wider world out there to
give us the time and the dignity to be heard.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It
all echoes the fact that the African Diaspora is no stranger in the world but a
human community deserving respect. And respect is what Hastings wishes could be
given to any member of society without the biases of gender, race, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">At
some point in time, when home becomes a place of strife, not actually of racial
disaster but a place of extreme economic and political disaster, the patriot feels
the need for change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Manyika vividly
captures the evening when in his church office, weighed down by the prevailing
economic stress, Pastor Evan Mawarire started what would become the #ThisFlag
movement that inspired positive action and touched many a heart in Zimbabwe and
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Manyika’s
‘On Meeting’ with Mawarire outlines how much this change-maker suffered – the
arrests, the imprisonment, the threats – but also she celebrates the courage he
had/has in his fight for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a better
Zimbabwe, a better home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Apart
from clarifying his friendship with fellow Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and
many other issues in his conversation with Manyika, the guru Wole Soyinka
passionately views Africa as “not just a continent”. Soyinka displays his deep love
for African culture, and this love led him to be part of a team that travelled
to Brazil and London in a bid to recover a piece of art ‘stolen’ by the
colonialists from a Nigerian museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the conversations with Soyinka and Mawarire, albeit these two having different
backgrounds, there is a shared lesson that Africa should promptly recover the
missing dimensions which once identified it originally as a thriving, peaceful
continent, that Africans must rise to defend the motherland against looters of
its cultural art and freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Soyinka
says, “I grew up with this history. These are the precipitates of a people’s
spirituality. In the process, that meant that even the spiritual network that
bound the Black people together was just being shredded to pieces. So, this was
beyond just a piece of work to be admired. This piece of work, incidentally,
was the image on one of the Nigerian stamps for a long while. And to see this
being advertised around the whole world as what the African genius had
produced, it hurt. I’m explaining why there was no hesitation about my going on
that recovery mission.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Claudia
Rankine, a multi-award winning poet and playwright also talks about anti-blackness,
about the right to vote as an American citizen. Rankine says among her influences
is Fanon: “Fanon…for me, being maybe the most crucial in the way his work
addresses the psychological ramifications of anti-Blackness within a society.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Award-winning
film-maker Xoliswa Sithole’s story of the difficulties faced by women in the
film industry echo those of Zimbabwean film-maker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga
and others. In the conversation, Sithole says she loves making documentaries
that tell the untold stories of women and children especially, as Manyika puts
it, “in the context of pandemics, war and poverty”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet,
much to Sithole’s disappointment, funding is difficult to source because she is
a woman. She outlines the need to fight against the “erasure of women out of
history”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
closing chapter ‘A White Continent’ is Manyika’s recollection of her exciting,
informative and yet a little dangerous expedition to Antarctica’s South Pole in
January 2022. However, through this journey she makes new discoveries which she
shares in this chapter, like climate change, women explorers, and interestingly
about how thoughts of skin colour diminish in Antarctica, an extremely cold
continent almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up
to 13,000 feet deep. To survive the cold, you have to be dressed up in layers
and layers of clothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“One
of the things about being bundled up in layers of polar clothing and gear is
that when outside you rarely see a person’s skin color. The body is so covered
up it’s hard to recognize who’s who. All that is clear is that a figure is
human – not Black, not white, just human.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All
the black people featured in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Between
Starshine and Clay</i> are heroes and heroines whose experiences have important
lessons for the world. They are but only a segment and Manyika admits that
“from such a vast continent and its diaspora, there are many inspiring voices
that could be included in a book like this”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This
book is of great relevance to everyone, for it carries real-life stories from
the African diaspora, stories which the media had seemingly been parsimonious
about. It is a classic that will break boundaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJsPoJ6lNqsQi9EEJ-eYkUuhT24qb5cv2-FWIJt_Gx7FDTiXnkzSxQlZFV9yi42F2I0hvxLtjLA6y_tuzQHos8fc3Df1PNlTS4nGxbqhFFQNTShJt1pjEvW8hDY5B8-so2pD7E1mV7EW0jikZnNgP248acDLM0Amsdlnx10hRNqOQnZHRyqu5Rwu04pw/s800/not%20forgotten%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="629" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJsPoJ6lNqsQi9EEJ-eYkUuhT24qb5cv2-FWIJt_Gx7FDTiXnkzSxQlZFV9yi42F2I0hvxLtjLA6y_tuzQHos8fc3Df1PNlTS4nGxbqhFFQNTShJt1pjEvW8hDY5B8-so2pD7E1mV7EW0jikZnNgP248acDLM0Amsdlnx10hRNqOQnZHRyqu5Rwu04pw/w315-h400/not%20forgotten%20cover.jpg" width="315" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>E</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">very year October 10 is
observed as World Mental Health Day which aims ‘to raise awareness of mental
health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental
health’. This year, the theme was ‘Mental Health is a Universal Human Right’.
As the world recognized this day through various events, World Health
Organization’s 2022 World Mental Health Report rebounds with a sad note that
mental health conditions are </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">increasing</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">
worldwide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
pressure of daily modern life has plunged men, women, teenagers and youths,
into a dungeon of depression, drug abuse, suicide, anxiety, in fact all the
filthiness usurping the human mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s hardly a family that has not been affected by any of the mental
health issues topping the agendas at world medical and health conferences. Governments
and NGOs have woken up to the call of addressing mental health in an attempt to
save the future generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dictionaries
define mental health as a ‘psychological state of someone who is functioning at
a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment’ and mental
disorder as ‘a psychological disorder of thought or emotion.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mental
disorder is a more neutral term than mental illness. There are many a different
meaning and cause, some rational and others irrational, attached to the words
‘mental health’ or ‘mental disorder’ or ‘mental illness’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Psychologists
or psychiatrists have their take while personal development coaches,
traditionalists (<span style="background: white;">spiritual and cultural)</span>,
and others, have their own viewpoints (and biases) too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet
even as threatening as it is, mental health awareness can be raised through the
literary arts also; hence we have poets or writers vigorously writing about the
subject. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seven<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zimbabwean poets concerned with the rising
statistics of problems to do with mental health came together and hatched ten
poems each to produce a wonderful anthology called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not Forgotten: Remembered with Love</i> (2023, Ruvarashe Creative
Writes).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The anthology
editor, Morset Billie, notes that the poets’ aim ‘to dispel the stigma
associated with mental health challenges….’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you
read the anthology quietly, listening with mind (not ears) to the voices of the
personae, you realize mental health is not something to take for granted. You
witness a sad realm of individuals burdened by pain, suicide ideation, regret,
self-pity, drug addiction, guilt and loneliness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a relief that the
book is not totally sad but it comforts. You rejoice when victims become
victors. The poems are a conglomeration of survivors’ voices and the witnesses’
voices, a poetic choir of hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a time when even the sufferer discovers the root cause of his/her suffering as
depicted in Ruth Mutana’s poems. A homeless grown man in ‘An Image of a Street
Man’ sees his childhood reflected in a nearby poor, wailing boy who’s being ignored
by his busy parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the boy, the
man ‘always waited to be loved and cared for…’ but he was cast out of home
because he ‘started talking and laughing’ to himself’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
marriage, some partners scarcely accept their weaknesses; the result is marital
friction as in another of Mutana’s poems ‘The Gas Lighter’. The woman cries:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…When I expressed my feelings
honestly<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He called me a liar<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I explained his
shortcomings to me<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He called me delusional<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Until I began to question my
sanity<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Courage
E Karuma pleads with the busy world, especially family members, to give an ear to
those trapped in drugs or suicide thoughts, those crying out for help. His
poems often address the brother, sister, mother. For example, in ‘Welcome to my
World’ a voice pleads:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why won’t you listen?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I called last week; you were
busy<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At that time, I went searching
for death<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the
poem ‘Mother, I am Scared’, you wish you could attend to the voice of possibly
a youth who is under the influence of drugs, alone in his room seeing awkward
visions, calling out to his mother who is not there for him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tabeth
Manyonga, the anthology publisher, also contributed pieces that largely touch
on the worker’s plight. She shows how the workplace can inflict worst wounds in
the mind. When one fails to live up to the bosses’ expectations, is segregated
and gets treated like a slave, the mind is easily pressured to give in to
depression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For example,
the persona is her poem ‘The Stairs’ has feelings of regret and after failing to
be like the others, says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I lost my sanity trying to keep
up<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
poets Onward Mutapurwa and Ruvimbo Martha Jeche are voices of comfort, echoing
the anthology’s mantra that ‘it’s ok not to be okay’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is
mentioned in his brief biography that 23-year old poet Alison Tinashe Muzite is
‘an author also notable for distinctively writing, drawing and painting using
both hands simultaneously’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When
reading his poems, especially the first two titled ‘Alone’ and ‘Lonely’ set
side by side, something suspiciously exciting moves between your eyes: the
poems are like a painter’s brief, quick strokes made by both hands at the same
time, yet capturing different meanings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tanaka
Mercy Murwira, an aspiring poet, also echoes the psychological wailings of
people in different storms of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not Forgotten</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
carries poems in simple but inherently soulful language; that is the good of
it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a timeless, helpful book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not
Forgotten</i> is therapeutic. This anthology surely must be made part of rehabilitation
or treatment programs for people with mental health problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>***</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-68597677857700722592023-09-28T15:05:00.000+02:002023-09-28T15:05:39.726+02:00MEMORIES OF A BOOK LAUNCH<p><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Winzim
Online</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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unforgettable.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;">It’s
afternoon, April 15, 2023. Mallvine T Mutize </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;">aka</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"> Mall the Vine, a motivational writer, is launching his book </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;">Corridors of Leadership </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;">at the
International Coaching and Mentoring Foundation, Karigamombe Centre in Harare.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guests
entering the ICMF board room are welcomed by cool Afrojazz music oozing from a
corner. The sound is not intrusive. Victor Masara, an Afrofusion musical
artist, performs with gift, performs with passion, and entertains them. Near a
window is an eye-catching large table upon which copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Corridors of Leadership</i> stand or lie around a white decorated birthday
cake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Among
the arriving guests is the guest speaker, Noah Mangwarara, an accomplished
motivational author and coach. The panellists Sympathy Sibanda, Tabeth Manyonga,
Geraldine Eve, and Beaven Tapureta, have arrived, together with the author who
is in the company of his supportive parents and other relatives.</span><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a
moment, the MC walks to the front, and Masara music fades into silence. The introductions,
followed by panel discussion and speeches begin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
panel discussion dissects the book from exciting different perspectives. Passages
from Corridors of Leadership are brought up to justify a point, a comment or
criticism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Afterwards,
guest speaker Mangwarara lays out in alphabetical order first letters of what
he says are the six major themes Mutize tackles in his book – Action, Believe
(self-belief), Create ( a legacy), Develop (other leaders), Excellency and
Focus. He goes on to explicate each of the themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mangwarara
emphasizes everyone is a leader but the choices people make can reflect whether
they are effective or ineffective leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He
applauds Mutize’s approach in the book, especially his use of the parable style
such as the Parable of the Pencil, lessons drawn from great world leaders,
Bible verses, references to authors who have tackled same subject, and stories
from his everyday life experiences. All these strategies, Mangwarara says, urge
the reader to continue reading, inspired.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
launch is double-fold, being also a belated celebration of the author’s
birthday which occurs on April 14.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mallvine Mutize is an award-wining certified Life
Coach, mentor, a leadership practitioner and author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stepping Stones to Self-Discovery</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Self Help to Growth. </i>He also co-authored<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Growth Recipe</i>. He is the director of The Vine Consultancy whose
mandate is to develop children and young people, build and strengthen teams for
better performance. Mutize sits on several boards of youth-based organizations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimksfpVxB9VX0C6bkK2YKNU_U9GDIy5dmjAe02aQrzhCx4MbyWjuUz-9X32kxSlJHjhNri99I8pWH9bSSaRJ2B5JzDYqyW9gyoar1qIsaaJsEzmpx7MxQjiyUaLF18qLXyqYbFWlXzDYdRMr64IBRwxK6BpFndmtaQtSBa5gAGge7W-OdRdOyFmczCmmY/s415/mutize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="354" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimksfpVxB9VX0C6bkK2YKNU_U9GDIy5dmjAe02aQrzhCx4MbyWjuUz-9X32kxSlJHjhNri99I8pWH9bSSaRJ2B5JzDYqyW9gyoar1qIsaaJsEzmpx7MxQjiyUaLF18qLXyqYbFWlXzDYdRMr64IBRwxK6BpFndmtaQtSBa5gAGge7W-OdRdOyFmczCmmY/w341-h400/mutize.jpg" width="341" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mallvine T Mutize</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1QGX9xrgkK4SfZylZCeVe_diVGlw723qWkuoi6hvROe_eWJ2sSKUC5LekQhzB_XYy8HPbMWEqxssUwqZlFJZfmwK6Pxv9LiH8LbA90mDYdCgPPPnRA0Yk50UDsSWJWybWNqnJBpbsiO08Jra2-OE4dUouUFPpEUhH9NDV1EpxxKgBAk_olm-_9o7LvY/s800/IMG-20230417-WA0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="800" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1QGX9xrgkK4SfZylZCeVe_diVGlw723qWkuoi6hvROe_eWJ2sSKUC5LekQhzB_XYy8HPbMWEqxssUwqZlFJZfmwK6Pxv9LiH8LbA90mDYdCgPPPnRA0Yk50UDsSWJWybWNqnJBpbsiO08Jra2-OE4dUouUFPpEUhH9NDV1EpxxKgBAk_olm-_9o7LvY/w400-h288/IMG-20230417-WA0002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Everyone is a leader’</span></i></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /> </i><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">***<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-25882893744541744862023-09-24T13:05:00.000+02:002023-09-24T13:05:18.933+02:00MUCHURI'S BOOK INSPIRES CHILDREN<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Winzim Online</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBC4bikfHug4g8G45LjemWhj0mmd8nT-GRps9GeENAL_heYeUFWQiXD_0zBt5ymRZ_lClMrMDtov9ZuaKTP4ktuznhRRx6MExNQA9-fiMWJYkOG3nX95jp1kFC7nsai6vt3vsl_YxO-OohINmg1NM2WzAnSKT4cky2DDWEa_-nK4IeCEtk2gHtBrbpf-c/s606/tinashe%20muchuri%20reading%20from%20his%20manuscript%20'Chibarabada'%20at%20the%20ZWA%20Literary%20Evening%20at%20the%20Book%20Cafe%20this%20year..JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="606" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBC4bikfHug4g8G45LjemWhj0mmd8nT-GRps9GeENAL_heYeUFWQiXD_0zBt5ymRZ_lClMrMDtov9ZuaKTP4ktuznhRRx6MExNQA9-fiMWJYkOG3nX95jp1kFC7nsai6vt3vsl_YxO-OohINmg1NM2WzAnSKT4cky2DDWEa_-nK4IeCEtk2gHtBrbpf-c/w400-h330/tinashe%20muchuri%20reading%20from%20his%20manuscript%20'Chibarabada'%20at%20the%20ZWA%20Literary%20Evening%20at%20the%20Book%20Cafe%20this%20year..JPG" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tinashe Muchuri reading at the Book Cafe some
years ago</span></i></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKEiBbg3BZXUd5tj0k57hma8OROIrb6DgNuvDkQleD5pdSWQ3WjaP5cjKDNK6ujQXlCKLMts1sUMLZoWlSLWNDqwp3JwA9StBtrhJD8RxaIJGnlC4vN_xcpQVQ2ruzNqwPQDh_kKPEDWcDxaJ1Gt0jT7Lm2fspGq-3eb0ZcszeGrZT6I-JEIQ3x-_AvE/s800/cover%20of%20auntie%20mazvita.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="553" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKEiBbg3BZXUd5tj0k57hma8OROIrb6DgNuvDkQleD5pdSWQ3WjaP5cjKDNK6ujQXlCKLMts1sUMLZoWlSLWNDqwp3JwA9StBtrhJD8RxaIJGnlC4vN_xcpQVQ2ruzNqwPQDh_kKPEDWcDxaJ1Gt0jT7Lm2fspGq-3eb0ZcszeGrZT6I-JEIQ3x-_AvE/s320/cover%20of%20auntie%20mazvita.jpg" width="221" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tinashe
Muchuri’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Auntie Mazvita</i> (2021,
Essential Books Publishing Company), a children’s book shortlisted for the NAMA
award last year, offers children the cultural wisdom necessary to uproot moral
poverty reeking in modern day society, African society in particular.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before
ICT somehow chopped away the role of the traditional aunt, an adviser and
storyteller, the children were protected and the home was their first school.
Parents, aunts and uncles, were the basic teachers who, through storytelling, they
would mentor a child to understand the spirit of Ubuntu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nowadays,
the children hardly sit around the fire to listen to grandma or auntie who
usually has lots of exciting stories and games. Actually, there are no aunts to
make them laugh as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tsuro</i> makes a fool
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gudo, </i>to make them ask questions
to understand the moral lesson. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Books
like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Auntie Mazvita</i> will always be
important in capturing the kids young so that they grow up understanding life
and the Ubuntu spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Auntie Mazvita</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is not
an action or fictional narration but a real-life inspirational story told by
the storyteller Auntie Mazvita herself. She tells the story of her life and her
role in the village. She reminds the children and adults alike of how
storytellers were highly regarded because of their gift of knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I was
taught that a storyteller builds the future. It is through the stories told to
children that a strong foundation is laid. Without proper stories, the future
is dull,” she says in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The colour
illustrations add some liveliness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Auntie
Mazvita is at ease with the inquisitive boys and girls; she shares with them her
knowledge through song and dance. Yet she does not forget the realities of
social evils haunting the children; such evil as child abuse, hence she
protects the kids by educating them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although
she is wheel-chair bound because of polio, she is an achiever, a Paralympic
champion. After reading this book, children will love to associate with fellow
pupils or friends who live with disability. They will understand that
disability is not witchcraft – or some superstitious punishment, but it is usually
a medical condition or a result of accident. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Children are good observers but they are
happy when they find someone to ask questions about what they see. For example,
in Muchuri’s book, it’s clear the children have seen disabled people always
begging in the streets and wonder why Auntie Mazvita is as independent as any
other ‘abled’ person.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I am
not a charity case or a special one. I work for myself. Telling stories is a
career. I am working,” she tells the children. Her independence inspires the
children to aim higher despite challenges life may present. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a
counsellor, she has earned the confidence of villagers who are having marital
problems. It means she is not there for the kids only, but for the whole
village.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this
little but sagacious book, Tinashe Muchuri proves that we cannot do without the
storyteller. Muchuri is an award-winning journalist, writer, poet, translator, and
actor. He is the author of the Shona novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chibarabada</i>
(2015, Bhabhu Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-32839150310934040852023-09-21T23:47:00.004+02:002023-09-22T09:26:53.346+02:00AUTHOR WELLINGTON MUDHLURI VISITS WIN LIBRARY<p> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Win Online</i></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIJeKr0rX0jC2xn7nMw5aAGGoSrngP4RRDPVWiYQAM89C3ifNnR2a5CAZv1NKx3GXxZ8oAEAIRAzxBwGP8jc5Q8HN9EBOBQpXAlLyz9oOsc_R6Tp2qSqQmLy6B_yoAw3XL7LegP0KkM6-XeAUhp3aD03OT-IBd1EeL4oRzgvQDCRogur9StnjQS6Kgvmw/s800/IMG_20230921_004739.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="800" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIJeKr0rX0jC2xn7nMw5aAGGoSrngP4RRDPVWiYQAM89C3ifNnR2a5CAZv1NKx3GXxZ8oAEAIRAzxBwGP8jc5Q8HN9EBOBQpXAlLyz9oOsc_R6Tp2qSqQmLy6B_yoAw3XL7LegP0KkM6-XeAUhp3aD03OT-IBd1EeL4oRzgvQDCRogur9StnjQS6Kgvmw/w453-h235/IMG_20230921_004739.JPG" width="453" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beaven
Tapureta (left) and Wellington Mudhluri inside the WIN library<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the blistering
afternoon of September 19, 2023, the WIN community library in Epworth had the
pleasure of hosting Wellington Mudhluri, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sinister Motive</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mudhluri
appreciated the library vision and promised to donate a few copies of his
novel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">WIN
said such visits by authors make the library special and many thanks to Wellington,
and those who have visited before and those who shall visit one day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
library is still developing but it has proved worthwhile to book lovers,
including the school kids. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49BxE2L_niuh9dlLaOrY1K5kxMSyhwnf6RMF3Mrp2BlWrEn-nQd2sTNGGVwbRLXSTfeOIeoZCnQGk5NSBhQUS4vDREYLWYitMImwFqZwrZ5clwgdXXqHBsOKysETNKd4PubzxPcK2O1kn-886UrFJwYspC1MkjoHAqvnWF9QD541LJXAtpygm5Eb7znw/s800/welly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="800" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49BxE2L_niuh9dlLaOrY1K5kxMSyhwnf6RMF3Mrp2BlWrEn-nQd2sTNGGVwbRLXSTfeOIeoZCnQGk5NSBhQUS4vDREYLWYitMImwFqZwrZ5clwgdXXqHBsOKysETNKd4PubzxPcK2O1kn-886UrFJwYspC1MkjoHAqvnWF9QD541LJXAtpygm5Eb7znw/w400-h290/welly.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sharp!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9Co1pM-tk9M6nhGfb3ROCl_v1v_pYe64kRITm-sdJoW6VW1mkPDNyotThE5dpzGYjMAmVJANaSl0meo4WXe2f33PDsA0g19Kr5_4NO3p_n3orx7lbIlXTRz4G4c47u7TOGO6O_y14L-wP_dYDLky04dfrcJe-l4Rn9-CzSVX2Fa0GJC859elpE5Mcdk/s739/wellington.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="739" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9Co1pM-tk9M6nhGfb3ROCl_v1v_pYe64kRITm-sdJoW6VW1mkPDNyotThE5dpzGYjMAmVJANaSl0meo4WXe2f33PDsA0g19Kr5_4NO3p_n3orx7lbIlXTRz4G4c47u7TOGO6O_y14L-wP_dYDLky04dfrcJe-l4Rn9-CzSVX2Fa0GJC859elpE5Mcdk/w400-h360/wellington.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Welly
at the official launch of his novel in South Africa last year</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <span style="color: #800180;">***</span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“I think some readers are
looking to have their views confirmed or consoled and that doesn’t always
happen […] That’s not what novels do that’s what fairy tales do. In adult
fiction, it’s not a bad thing, it’s a good thing, to have your views
challenged, to have things happen that you didn’t wish or expect to happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">-LAILA LALAMI (novelist, short
story writer, journalist) - Morocco</span><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-86998365642682728072023-09-16T13:07:00.001+02:002023-09-16T13:07:10.081+02:00Greetings From The Founder & Director<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBL-TjFV8NvgUXAH-N85fHlzKvuOgqccIQULFYQUeF4xxGrUsdOoHwnNaTOZ3eHz9KnUoKLhX4TaE2HnkpSQ9Sjgco2eAIuKFpC6CB4n6Rw5NmdQlE_375SdWhMpMrIezjLyYK2TDh_9BYgEiQcwkrBhr7iZxCBXMmxXh2wVwTU0vfLD2f1k_NijvijnA/s553/beaven.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBL-TjFV8NvgUXAH-N85fHlzKvuOgqccIQULFYQUeF4xxGrUsdOoHwnNaTOZ3eHz9KnUoKLhX4TaE2HnkpSQ9Sjgco2eAIuKFpC6CB4n6Rw5NmdQlE_375SdWhMpMrIezjLyYK2TDh_9BYgEiQcwkrBhr7iZxCBXMmxXh2wVwTU0vfLD2f1k_NijvijnA/w325-h400/beaven.JPG" width="325" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">DEAR <b>FRIENDS,</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">How are you and the reading,
writing, publishing, book marketing and promotion, all the literary stuff? We
are reading so much about new books by Zimbabwean authors; this really makes us
happy. It’s the reading element that we will keep pushing into the whole
process. WIN is moving on, no matter the bumps and holes on the road. Although
we have not been feeding our blog for about four months now, a voice great
within us is alive, faithful, goading us forward. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Many thanks for the patience. You inspire us to believe in our 'calling' through your undying support.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We hope to resume publishing the
online WIN Newsletter soon. <i>No retreat, no surrender</i>. Keep on writing, reading.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Beaven Tapureta <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-86956761716915055762023-04-02T23:56:00.003+02:002023-04-03T08:17:42.185+02:00‘LECTURE CORNER’ DEDICATED TO DEPARTED FAMOUS AUTHOR<p style="text-align: center;"> <u style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">WIN Online</span></u></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Ppd-MFnK3sADxdYEMzUmoV7a5bJB2KOGPti_gan_aWpGXujXf8oWOdtOLl6PlAHbmeaCG9lnIZRyJc9sfCZut_0YYWRcsZPgSzw2lVs8PJzvMXWrIPRXi2A0iEZQ5iBUb7KhO4hYfzSaMVuEFokRQBioHbaDRD3HWIQjhY1J8BvLHumiUkajPxP0/s908/dr%20charles%20mungoshi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Ppd-MFnK3sADxdYEMzUmoV7a5bJB2KOGPti_gan_aWpGXujXf8oWOdtOLl6PlAHbmeaCG9lnIZRyJc9sfCZut_0YYWRcsZPgSzw2lVs8PJzvMXWrIPRXi2A0iEZQ5iBUb7KhO4hYfzSaMVuEFokRQBioHbaDRD3HWIQjhY1J8BvLHumiUkajPxP0/w352-h640/dr%20charles%20mungoshi.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dr Charles Mungoshi (1947-2019)</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The late great writer Dr
Charles Mungoshi’s legacy will live on as his family has now set up a Lecture
Corner named after him at the Harare City Library. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 248.1pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According to son Farayi Mungoshi, an author in his own right, the lecture corner will showcase literary works by Dr. Mungoshi as well
as other African writers’ publications. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 248.1pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A call is being made to writers who want to submit their
works to the Charles Mungoshi Lecture Corner which, Farayi said, will not necessarily host real
lectures but the ‘lectures’ are figuratively the voices of/from the books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 248.1pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Published writers in Zimbabwe, and Africa at large, can join
this forever celebration of the literary icon and the promotion of literature
and culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get in touch with Farayi on
+263 77 263 4918 or email <a href="mailto:fgmungoshi@gmail.com">fgmungoshi@gmail.com</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 248.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">MORE NEWS….<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Tsitsi
Nomsa Ngwenya’s new novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Portrait of
Emlanjeni</i> (Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd, 2023) now available @ Noble & Barnes or Amazon. In Zimbabwe, it will be available @ Book Fantastics.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">AND MORE IN<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cooper Black","serif"; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">THE
WIN LITERARY NEWSLETTER<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></h1>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cooper Black","serif"; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VOL 2 NO 22 </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></h1>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">COMING SOON …<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-85256747069886003882023-03-17T12:24:00.000+02:002023-03-17T12:24:53.954+02:00SPECIAL ISSUE THE WIN LITERARY NEWSLETTER VOL 2, ISSUE 21<p> <!--[if !mso]>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgve2TmaQ3MNafZ1WiBQX4HvpuH9y8N1NzK5Vz6vJT5IgHvdWn81kfA1j8zIauE1jGYZ90qk2bKbHzRlGTakVpvP49GXOXk-vaXZzVs582fL7fvm0DMdNM2YuMbtnDHV7A2-7h50GfarxMlhKhu4GCyAvr1rk5ZE9Tr-0t7o6KZsZU0UFGcZsekD1Lg/s900/young%20win%20member%20reading.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="900" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgve2TmaQ3MNafZ1WiBQX4HvpuH9y8N1NzK5Vz6vJT5IgHvdWn81kfA1j8zIauE1jGYZ90qk2bKbHzRlGTakVpvP49GXOXk-vaXZzVs582fL7fvm0DMdNM2YuMbtnDHV7A2-7h50GfarxMlhKhu4GCyAvr1rk5ZE9Tr-0t7o6KZsZU0UFGcZsekD1Lg/w400-h341/young%20win%20member%20reading.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A member of the WIN Children’s Reading Club
(Epworth) reading a book</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Baba VaRudo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">written by Memory Chirere</i></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">elcome
to our first and special edition of the WIN Literary Newsletter, an inspiring
package of news for the writer. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We know you have been wondering why we have
been offline for such a long time, the best answer, if truth be told, would be
that we allowed ourselves to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">withdraw,
observe, and learn. </i>And surely, we have learnt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Interesting how the writing and publishing
space in Zimbabwe has undergone rapid change mostly due to technology. While
few decades ago it would take a long and intensive process to see one’s book
published, today it is a matter of hours, if not minutes! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">There is great work being done by some writers
and publishers (emerging or established) who are committed to creative quality
and exploring new trends; we applaud their efforts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">2022 was a blessed year for WIN as we
established a small but promising community library at our new base in Epworth.
The library is already running a vibrant reading club for children living in
the surrounding area. There’s more about it in this newsletter. Great many
thanks to authors who have been supporting this idea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In this our special issue, we have left out book
reviews, columns such as The Youth Perspective, Ngatinyoreyi, The Source,
Children’s Literature In Zimbabwe as we want to give these sections special
space & treatment in our next issue.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We would like to thank our resilient members,
the WIN Board, and literary friends around the world, for the support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were and you remain bright stars shining upon
our path. We love you all. Keep reading and writing. Enjoy!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: georgia; font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">HAPPY WOMEN’S MONTH!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
following is a Ndau poem by one of our members, Farai Mlambo, celebrating women’s
uniqueness and embodiment of Ubuntu. Mothers of Africa, we send our love to you
all!</span></p><p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndini Tsangaichuma</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 248.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDTlvGRf2ePwnvpN_gZI_n5rKo4fXF3H_zoe1HEJSECrPjNXqx5pSeI6b2cqQmIpEHr2yDFSMWLNaOncRwctKU0KIYtGwocj4pQqHj-SxiBfRhsvwlj1Nw6dfG8oHDD94P0qqLxz_cOX_oQ_UHVfggman3CLGRa2HZ5KUwyx7RKWLo2m5zjmgBeCwS/s640/ndini%20tsangai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="384" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDTlvGRf2ePwnvpN_gZI_n5rKo4fXF3H_zoe1HEJSECrPjNXqx5pSeI6b2cqQmIpEHr2yDFSMWLNaOncRwctKU0KIYtGwocj4pQqHj-SxiBfRhsvwlj1Nw6dfG8oHDD94P0qqLxz_cOX_oQ_UHVfggman3CLGRa2HZ5KUwyx7RKWLo2m5zjmgBeCwS/w384-h640/ndini%20tsangai.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndini
Tsangaichuma.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndinotsumba
ganda rangu;</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ganda
rangu rakaqithwa ngemufokozana.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ganda
rangu rakaenda nechinyamamphezi,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cheindisiya
neracho rinonyenyesa.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rangu
ganda rainga rakatsvukira zvinoyemudza,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rakasvipira
inga deko renzviru.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risainga
nemathothomba.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rangu
ganda rainga nepika,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Haikhona
iriri rakati penu mbare,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rangu
ganda risainga rakaonyana,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Irona
raitedzerera zvinodakadza.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndini
inini Tsangaichuma,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndombi
yekanyi, yakaseja kamale.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Yayeyai
muzwe kana izwi rangu.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rangu
zwi rakadepferera,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rinokekeya
inga nzvirya.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rinosheka
zvinoaraidza.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndini
ndemene Tsangaichuma,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kubanze
kwangu akuna unthani.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndipei
usanga hwangu ndisimire.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndipei
chikhisa changu ndigqoke</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mudzionerewo
mwega kusisira kwazvo.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Unthu
hwangu munohuziya wani;</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Andito
kuhehuka inga bungumupee.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndinodziehla
pamberi peasharuka.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kuhamba
kwangu andiiti ekubhabhauka.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndihinei
chipfuko ndichidengezere muone.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndiashidzei
tsani ndimukhombidze chibatirwe chayo</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndeimucherere
ubhudhu.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Farai
Chinaa Mlambo</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">THE WIN READING
CLUB</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20pt;">Establishing
the Missing Link at Community Level</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">WIN Online</span></u></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK00k-pfYVi9SDy45RUuoXaqtJoYXZIGsbuliol5oY_xT7Z_etLaGbdrTsmy0aB3hPNeWlK6TEVCFl2ZFt7BFbIpfn8Bm6oEUffFD17YbvGo-sPrlscHdblIg-_ue5WnRxkQG7VoX_qODrkq7MvztBMjVCTtfYIRIomHY65VqIjkRlGcf4hoSLb-u8/s2019/shantel%20reading.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2019" data-original-width="1588" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK00k-pfYVi9SDy45RUuoXaqtJoYXZIGsbuliol5oY_xT7Z_etLaGbdrTsmy0aB3hPNeWlK6TEVCFl2ZFt7BFbIpfn8Bm6oEUffFD17YbvGo-sPrlscHdblIg-_ue5WnRxkQG7VoX_qODrkq7MvztBMjVCTtfYIRIomHY65VqIjkRlGcf4hoSLb-u8/w504-h640/shantel%20reading.JPG" width="504" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A club member Shantel Mutarisi </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Since
opening its doors to the public in May, 2022, the WIN mini-library in Epworth has
made best friends mainly with children. Parents in the neighbourhood and some
friends in the book industry have also responded to this idea with open arms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">It
started as a one room. A neighbour helped with the roofing, another provided a
door frame, another a curtain and a youth named Courage Mlambo, an avid reader,
volunteered to assist in the library. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">A
week after opening doors to the community the number of school kids who
subscribed shot to about 20. The one room became too small and later a
two-roomed house was sought within the premise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The
first separate visits to the library by WIN officials, Vine Ziwane and Tinashe
Muchuri, were in May. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the day of his
visit, Ziwane blessed the library with two copies of his published books, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broken Taboo</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silent Valley. </i>Muchuri donated a few copies of his interesting
Shona novel<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Chibarabada. </i>Another
writer who also sits on the WIN Board, Stella Chiweshe donated copies of her
motivational Christian book for girls titled<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
The Source. </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The
book gifts kept coming from authors like Godknows Maremera and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ericah Gwetai</b> who has so far made an
outstanding book donation to WIN since the launch of the community-based
library. Gwetai’s last book donation which included Shona classics was received
in December, 2022, via the kind agency of Mrs Priscilla Sithole.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">In
the past, WIN received books from individuals and organizations such as Theresa
Muchemwa and Zimbabwe Reads.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxuehTn-zlTXQUEKHWEDnb0pv0hWmV4yZXx4FB21GMhjzl5K9dOIZ-NnXD_Vdk3WfS_pF3ViBa9VQPvDi1epLqQvhaOFCqgk321_JcXiCLUY3GDXuhV1E7WucqLa3TyiVhKa6ry1y_cbdGscLLfIfYB1rVqWH_Z73h1j08_TW6br5NFUEy4iQdtkAK/s2153/a%20happy%20club%20of%20young%20readers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2153" data-original-width="1822" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxuehTn-zlTXQUEKHWEDnb0pv0hWmV4yZXx4FB21GMhjzl5K9dOIZ-NnXD_Vdk3WfS_pF3ViBa9VQPvDi1epLqQvhaOFCqgk321_JcXiCLUY3GDXuhV1E7WucqLa3TyiVhKa6ry1y_cbdGscLLfIfYB1rVqWH_Z73h1j08_TW6br5NFUEy4iQdtkAK/w339-h400/a%20happy%20club%20of%20young%20readers.JPG" width="339" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> Books
that have so far been popular with the kids at the reading club include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mabvarura</i> (2012), a collection of Shona
poems written by poets aged between 13 and 17 years drawn from different
schools and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am A Child</i>, a
collection of English poems and stories written by teenage authors. The two
books were produced by Centre for the Development of Women and Children (CDWC)
in collaboration with WIN in 2012. The other books that have been read often at
the club are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baba vaRudo</i> by Memory
Chirere, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jenaguru: Moonlight Dances</i>
by Edwin Msipa, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Our Own Words</i>
published by Steck-Vaughn (2004), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There
Was A Fly</i> by Aleck Kaposa, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Around The
Fire: Folktales from Zimbabwe</i>, an Intwasa Arts Festival publication edited
by Raisedon Baya and Christopher Mlalazi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paradise
Stories</i> by Eve Z Nyemba-Mazando and various others.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Last
year, PEN International in Zimbabwe ran a project named after the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Invisible Child</i> which the kids at
the club found exciting as it made them aware of issues to do with children’s
rights, especially the girl child. PEN Zimbabwe managed the project with three
selected schools from which some of the club members come.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKtJw3WJJz2dJZXOIAhosyQZp9l9BktlIl8wlKrKMP-5P5Cg7HBX1D7lG_NqBLzite9XNcGOjXj4wP_tNWx1to7R0aFAwww_fbCZmR35DKq_6MFnT8_tr6nHG7JWCmFvUrupzvLX5gdHbjFbSlkcDnXHT-t917oIDXcTu4MU54BXT3zWsnLIqktP4I/s779/vine%20and%20courage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="779" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKtJw3WJJz2dJZXOIAhosyQZp9l9BktlIl8wlKrKMP-5P5Cg7HBX1D7lG_NqBLzite9XNcGOjXj4wP_tNWx1to7R0aFAwww_fbCZmR35DKq_6MFnT8_tr6nHG7JWCmFvUrupzvLX5gdHbjFbSlkcDnXHT-t917oIDXcTu4MU54BXT3zWsnLIqktP4I/w400-h300/vine%20and%20courage.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Writer and WIN Board Member Vine
Ziwane browsing a book with one of Epworth avid readers Courage Mlambo, a
volunteer at WIN</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Speaking to
WIN Online recently, the WIN director Beaven Tapureta who is also serving as
voluntary librarian, said the project still needs everyone’s support as it is
in its infancy. He said the library needs books. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“There is a
paucity of children’s books at the WIN community library and we hope that with
the continued generosity of authors and publishers, the reading material will
soon be available to the Epworth young readers,” he said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Be that as it
may, WIN remains strong and is still committed to building a certain bridge for
the writers and the readers of all ages and from all backgrounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">NAMA HONOURS GREAT MENTORS OF MANY A TALENT</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Beaven
Tapureta</span></u></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Barbara
C Nkala</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></p>
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<h4 align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: courier; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From left: Phillip Chidavaenzi, Davison
Maruziva and Beaven Tapureta at the 2016 NAMA fete. </span></i></span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I am one of
those happy for the great mentors, Barbara C Nkala, an author, and Davison
Maruziva, media expert, who were honoured at the National Arts Merit Awards
held in Harare on February 25, 2023.</span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Their outstanding
contribution in different ways in the field of literary art and in the lives of
many artists was recognized much to the joy of those who have had the blessing
of being their ‘students’ at some point in life. </span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Gogo Nkala
received the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lifetime Achievement Award</b>
and Maruziva the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arts Service Award</b>.
</span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In my life
these inspirational personalities have made an indelible mark which always inspires
me to never give up. They are examples of true mentors, not only for me but
many others from different backgrounds. We salute you! We love you!</span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NAMA RESULTS IN THE
LITERARY ARTS SECTION</span></b></p><p> <br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Outstanding Poet - Obert Dube</span></b></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Outstanding First Creative Work - David
Chasumba</span></b></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Outstanding Children's Book - <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sloba and the Chameleon</span> by Costa
Chayambuka</span></b></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Outstanding Fiction Book - <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Quality of Mercy</span> by Siphiwe Gloria
Ndlovu</span></b></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Outstanding Poetry Book - <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Starfish Blossoms</span> by Samantha Vhazhure</span></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">EUROPEAN UNION,
CULTURE FUND, LAUNCH ‘CREATIVE ACTIONS 2’</span></b></p>
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Zimbabwe, Jobst von Kirchmann, speaking at the launch of Creative Actions 2 in
Harare</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Culture Fund’s new call for
grant applications under the Creative Actions2 project was officially launched at
the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, on Friday, February 24, by European
Union ambassador to Zimbabwe HE Jobst von Kirchmann.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Present at
the launch were delegates from government and various cultural and civil
society organizations and development partners. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Minister
of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry, emphasized the
importance of national museums in preserving a country’s history for future
generations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She thanked
the EU delegation to Zimbabwe for their support to culture and arts sector.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“The
government of Zimbabwe is happy to partner the European Union, working with
Culture Fund in supporting emerging young creatives. The grants will help
create a wide range of quality work, and this will enable our artists to
contribute to the local and international creative economy,” she said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">According to
a press release, the EU is contributing EUR 2, 060 500 over a period of 36 months
(2023-2025) through the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust which is contributing
EUR 108 000 and will manage this project. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The project will ‘allow artists to obtain
small grants between EUR 1 000 and EUR 10 000 attributed on a rolling basis’.
Larger grants between 10 000 euros and 60000 euros will also be available for
organizations working in the creative sector.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The release
said that Creative Actions2 project is fully aligned with Government of
Zimbabwe’s National Development Strategy 1 (NDS-1) and contributes to its
implementation by funding innovative artistic and cultural expressions;
empowering civil society, promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment,
and by providing training and skills development programmes for arts and culture
producers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Speaking at
the launch, H.E. Jobst von Kirchmann said EU’s support to the Zimbabwe cultural
sector in the past decade has helped local cultural workers to tell the story
of the country’s rich arts and culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Such support
has been granted to local initiatives like, among others, Ignatius Mabasa’s
project on promoting the story-telling tradition in Zimbabwe, the production
and promotion of the Mbira instrument through Albert Chimedza’s one of a kind
Mbira Centre and the rehabilitation of the Great Zimbabwe Shona Village and the
preservation and promotion of the Ndebele culture of home paintings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Culture and
art, he said, are not just for entertainment but make important contribution to
the economy as “culture creates jobs, makes us aware, makes us understand each
other and bring us together.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Creative
Actions2 project, the ambassador said, will provide a breakthrough to emerging
artists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Our project
will support culture as a goal in itself. It is my sincere hope that this
project will provide a breakthrough to emerging artists, especially young women
and men as it will stimulate Zimbabwean creations,” said ambassador Kirchmann.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The small
grants, which are between EUR 1000 and EUR 10 000, are meant to encourage young
artists to start small.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“And
projects have not to be big. Great Zimbabwe was started with one stone, you can
also start something big with only a few euros,” he said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Among those
who will benefit from the Creative Actions2 project are cultural practitioners,
performing artists, literary artists, fashion and culinary artists, fine
artists, all drawn from the ten provinces in Zimbabwe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However, the
call for applications emphasizes special attention shall be given to women,
youth, people with disabilities (PWD) and marginalized communities in Binga,
Matobo and Chiredzi. </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For more
information, visit </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.culturefund.org.zw/creative-actions"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">https://www.culturefund.org.zw/creative-actions</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> or send an email to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="mailto:info@culturefund.co.zw"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">info@culturefund.co.zw</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> or call +263 242794617/
+263242794530 for assistance.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">CONGRATULATIONS </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">TSITSI NOMSA
NGWENYA <br /></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Flashback:</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Tsitsi chatting with students at the 2017 Zimbabwe International
Book Fair</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">…And the good news: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Enjoy the
preview of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Portrait of Emlanjeni</i> by
Memory Chirere.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://munyori.org/2023/03/chirere-previews-ngwenyas-a-portrait-of-emlanjeni-a-novel/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE. </a></span></b></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">‘GREY
ANGELS’</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
AVAILABLE IN SELECTED BOOKSHOPS</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Zimbabwean author and PEN Zimbabwe executive member Virginia Phiri (left) hands
over a gift of her novel 'Grey Angels' to PEN International Head of Africa Region
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nduko o’Matigere from Kenya, at a PEN
Zimbabwe meeting held on March 14, 2023 ,in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harare. </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">‘Grey Angels’ (2019) is available on Amazon
and in selected local bookshops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
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UNDER THE NOONDAY </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SUN</i>'</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">TO BE LAUNCHED </span></b></p>
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THE RISE</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">WIN Online</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7S9qV4aMPPuDx8Ct2P4oWN4t9CPYxQYxjLPLvWEMeDj4u9GdrfvvIkA57H6UMXwvoTYq4DPcxzNvH2-7eVOWLoIxzMn9zHEGu_qdqcS0ld-lSeO9wUIP9BgGgwy0GzCG2Dg81VfpaCUBWXmIL2loPGPWuz5i0mgz0xby2t77xAYnqWy-shub0CTk/s658/amanda%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="594" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7S9qV4aMPPuDx8Ct2P4oWN4t9CPYxQYxjLPLvWEMeDj4u9GdrfvvIkA57H6UMXwvoTYq4DPcxzNvH2-7eVOWLoIxzMn9zHEGu_qdqcS0ld-lSeO9wUIP9BgGgwy0GzCG2Dg81VfpaCUBWXmIL2loPGPWuz5i0mgz0xby2t77xAYnqWy-shub0CTk/w361-h400/amanda%20(2).jpg" width="361" /></a></span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Alisha Machumi (left), a film editor, and Amanda
Ranganawa (right) at the launch of the film ‘Depth of Emotions’</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Award-winning
film producer, director, script writer and actress Amanda Ranganawa sees great
progress happening in the local film industry although women filmmakers are yet
to be as ‘loud’ as their male counterparts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Speaking to
WIN Online, Ranganawa who hails from Mutare said she is glad the business
community is opening its doors to the arts sector.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“The local
film industry is definitely growing. More good quality films are being made.
The business community has become more open to supporting arts and also the
emerging television stations have given film makers more platforms to sell and
distribute their work,” said Ranganawa.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ranganawa
believes that it is possible for more women to achieve greatness if only they
come up with stimulating content and remain focussed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Women film
makers make great films. However, they are not as ‘loud’ as male film makers. I
encourage the women to continue producing more great content, winning in their
achievements and remain focussed. No good things stay hidden forever, the work
will always speak for itself,” she said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Her latest
project ‘Depth of Emotions’, a romantic film shot in Mutare and produced by
Mclara Multimedia Productions and partners, was officially premiered in January
this year at the Golden Villa Hotel, Mutare, to an audience of about 500
people, thus priding itself as a well-attended premiere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ranganawa
wrote and directed the film and she also is part of the cast. The film tells
the story of Grace, a young woman who loses her womb when a fibroids removal
surgery goes wrong. Ryan, Grace’s boyfriend, stands by her during this
unfortunate phase and he decides to marry her. Ryan’s decision to marry Grace
is met with opposition from his family.</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A scene in
‘Depth of Emotions’</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ranganawa
said that ‘Depth of Emotions’ tackles themes such as the problem of fibroids,
love, barrenness, adoption, surrogacy and the African perspective as regards
marriage and children in a home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“The movie
questions the depth of love between two lovers but poses the same question ‘How
deep is your love?’ to society at large,” said the multi-talented writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Born and
bred in Mutare, the multi-talented writer has an inspirational oeuvre which
includes being the writer of the award-winning film ‘Kushata kweMoyo’ which was
shown on Africa Magic and having worked in different productions such as
‘Amwene’, ‘All She Wants’, ‘Sins of the Father’, ‘Smoking Gun’, and ‘Broken
Lives’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">VOICE FROM THE MOUNTAINS</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Clever Simbarashe Kavenga (Mutare)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
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the east:</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Morset
Billie</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The city of Mutare is now a hub of artistic
events, be it music, films, spoken word, etc. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Some time ago events such as book launches,
film shows, poetry and music sessions and theatre had sort of fallen into
oblivion due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the cold silence has been broken,
Mutare is singing loud and clear. Yes, the mist of silence has cleared off and
joy is back in the valley of beauty and flowers. We have film producers such as
Amanda Ranganawa and Igi Matope of Picture Africa, among others, now making
Mutare proud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In this instalment I bring you Morset Billie,
one of the emerging artists who call Mutare home and now claiming his own space
in the arts sector. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I first met Morset some years back at Mutare
National Gallery during the Shaurai Poetry and Music Session. This guy hardly
missed the subsequent monthly events. Surely, a journey of a thousand miles
starts with a single step. Shaurai Poetry and Music Session at the Gallery
could be the place where Morset took his first baby steps into the wild world
of the arts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I recall watching him reading his poems
written on pieces of papers but the other days he would be reciting his poems.
Here and there he would apologize to the audience when he stammered or missed a
word or two. Then he would start all over again. Morset was at this time fighting
his struggles and he never gave up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">With patience and hard work, the poet developed
into one of the audience’s favourite poets at the Shaurai events alongside the
ever green Shingirai Manyengavana, Maraire and Dean Murinda to mention but a
few. Shingirai and Dean are now published poets and Morset Billie has joined
these guys on the published poets’ podium with his collection of love poems
titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When We Loved.</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Born and raised in Mutare, he attended
Chisamba Primary School and St Dominics Mutare for his secondary education.
Towards the end of his high school days, he lost his dear father. As a grieving
son with nothing to do, he found solace in writing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Morset never looked back. After St Dominics
he proceeded to Chinhoyi University of Technology where he studied
International Marketing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Today, he is in the arts sector full time. He
is now a creative enterprise consultant. He works with individual artists and
art organizations. Some of the artists he has worked with include poets
Chirikure Chirikure, Batsirai Chigama and the musician Tariro Negitare, and
others. As a poet, Morset has attended festivals and conferences locally and in
the region in countries such as Malawi and Zambia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">His new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When We Loved, </i>beautifully illustrated by a Kenyan mixed-media
artist Gemini Vaghela, is available directly from the author and it is also
found as an eBook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When asked about his views regarding the book
sector in Africa and Zimbabwe in particular, he had this to say, “Yes there is
hope, and great opportunity. I think it's just a matter of realigning ourselves
as writers with new media forms because the book as we knew it 20 years ago is
continuously moving into the digital world.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And to Morset, I say, “Rise, and keep rising
like a real star from the east.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SHORT STORY</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2dG0LpOAotdDP1WmkR1tkHpZZBllupB16hsmG4F2h2D9TGydNFN3Fr5jAE1GkE_83VOIFj4v4L8we-HSrnmI1FIDkOFiSehVDfNx3GnZek5oamBafA7Gqaj58J47289RdMX1_XZHUV7xeRG9wY-u--bBjbgdNwT8xONzzOZTAWfcPW70Z1D47Ir_/s723/badza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="573" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2dG0LpOAotdDP1WmkR1tkHpZZBllupB16hsmG4F2h2D9TGydNFN3Fr5jAE1GkE_83VOIFj4v4L8we-HSrnmI1FIDkOFiSehVDfNx3GnZek5oamBafA7Gqaj58J47289RdMX1_XZHUV7xeRG9wY-u--bBjbgdNwT8xONzzOZTAWfcPW70Z1D47Ir_/s320/badza.jpg" width="254" /></a></span></b></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Marcilline Badza, author of the short story <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bride</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">THE BRIDE</span></b></p>
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tiresome work in the fields had been lightened. There was no more weeding under
the burning sun. At least one could now manage to sneak to the growth point
where you would hear the daily top stories of what was transpiring in the
country. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A lot of men loved this moment though some
would end up in useless fights over English football teams. Those who supported
Manchester United seemed very hostile whenever they lost a match. I recall how
badly uncle would beat us for mispronouncing his team at heart - Manchester
United.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However, at home, it was ever busy because
mother would barely let you sigh. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A
normal person should always be a busy body,” she would say.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She said these words almost every day when we
thought that work with no play makes Jack a dull boy. The work at home
intensified after the news reached us that babamunini Panganai (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">father’s younger brother</i>) had
successfully paid lobola (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bride price</i>)
for the woman he so much loved. He was to bring his bride home and everyone
waited to see the beauty they had heard of. The preparations began the first
week of April, many crops and fruits had ripened then, including maize,
pumpkins, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ipwa,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nyii</i>, among others. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mother took one of the pumpkins and reserved
it for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">makoti</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This
one is so ripen she will love it, make sure you don’t put your hands on that
pumpkin,” she said to us. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The other crew made sure the rocks near the
gate were painted and decorated. After some days, we finished cutting collecting
the firewood for the special day. Everyone was in jovial mood except aunt
Senzeni who had been let down in love by one of the crooks in the city. I had
only heard of the wicked love but now I could see how it had ravaged and
malnourished <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tete. </i>If I had known the
lover surely I would beg him to come back and save her broken heart. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The big day came. Everybody wore their best
clothes; even Elvis, who hardly changed clothes, wore something new though it
had some patches at the back. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Finally, the awaited guest arrived. She was
as beautiful as the sunset we had never seen; such glowing skin. The old
village women tried to embrace her but she stepped back. She greeted us with
the tips of her nails, then I saw how detested we were in her eyes. The
three-legged pot with goat meat specially prepared for her was brought. They
served her with great love but their cracked, work-dyed hands just killed her appetite.
The elders noticed her ungratefulness and the ululations just died gradually…. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">POET CALLS FOR UNITY</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Vongai
Hillary Masuka, stage name Lareey</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Young</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> poet Vongai Hillary
Masuka, popularly known as Lareey, has said that unity promotes success in the
arts industry.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In an interview, Lareey said that she founded the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chitungwiza Poetry and Art Convergence in February,
2022, with the aim to promote togetherness among poets.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The organization has so far held arts events
at her place in Chitungwiza, thus promoting artistic social interactions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"The aim of the events is to promote
social interactions, by so doing, we not only create friendships among each
other, but we also call for unity and teamwork," she said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Chitungwiza Poetry and Art Convergence
has so far seen about 29 poets and artists coming to either read or perform
their poetry at Lareey’s house on different occasions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Asked how she feels about her poetry events,
she said, "It's a great relief, it's not such an easy task having your
friends coming to your place.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The get-togethers have attracted fellow poets
and writers in Harare. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyhmm8PD3l0vYmF-nmGRWQYV6VMxsizAYqiz2DsCOyM9tUxGmjj7LZOP-j6F91NXheYMZXWMQPpPwEUkdrO6rGKdA9-m729NZ6kPo5PPPaarK3tHX_4W9-Jpr2nTEpUZGqD8FNzp8ihCaX21do0V1ayw0gbUCUkBdj9EibbJiQmEzZ9ZBqpYKHBlY/s916/Lareey%20with%20fellow%20poets%20after%20a%20successful%20event%20in%20Chitungwiza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="916" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyhmm8PD3l0vYmF-nmGRWQYV6VMxsizAYqiz2DsCOyM9tUxGmjj7LZOP-j6F91NXheYMZXWMQPpPwEUkdrO6rGKdA9-m729NZ6kPo5PPPaarK3tHX_4W9-Jpr2nTEpUZGqD8FNzp8ihCaX21do0V1ayw0gbUCUkBdj9EibbJiQmEzZ9ZBqpYKHBlY/w320-h186/Lareey%20with%20fellow%20poets%20after%20a%20successful%20event%20in%20Chitungwiza.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lareey has managed to hold these events
through the support of her family and fellow poets. Her home has complemented
the poetry industry by providing a cheap venue to poets.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"I host these events right here because
we can't afford any other venue but because we have the urge to grow the
industry, we utilize the resources we have," she said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lareey is looking forward to publishing her debut
anthology soon.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i></b></p>
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YOU </span></b></p>
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<p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-61368010751783980272022-06-26T11:52:00.000+02:002022-06-26T11:52:10.690+02:00WIN Literary Newsletter, Vol 2, Issue 20<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(This
is an official newsletter of Writers International Network Zimbabwe, edited and
published by its Publishing Unit – </i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:winzimbabwe@gmail.com"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">winzimbabwe@gmail.com</i></a></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">)</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>___________________________________________</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">EDITORIAL</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfbbSYWZ2pLBY8Dbm49jEYQyoEsuPYhGLACPzkSdLcfrHVBnJyCrbHvdkitA-q94ga4dDmWiA7FimvizOt6MUHKhCJ5WFBExivuDZHFohqKLZvcZer0DbMxh5gfvHw89HHJj5nQ3SIzH8xcFvvplTx1RFA_9VjqoMeGSfqwEUZ1gsdhwWdH0U52Hb/s667/walter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfbbSYWZ2pLBY8Dbm49jEYQyoEsuPYhGLACPzkSdLcfrHVBnJyCrbHvdkitA-q94ga4dDmWiA7FimvizOt6MUHKhCJ5WFBExivuDZHFohqKLZvcZer0DbMxh5gfvHw89HHJj5nQ3SIzH8xcFvvplTx1RFA_9VjqoMeGSfqwEUZ1gsdhwWdH0U52Hb/w300-h400/walter.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>Remembering
where we have come from: </b>The late veteran actor, director and producer WALTER
LAMBERT DEHWE MUPARUTSA gave WIN some space in his Global Arts Trust office
along Chinhoyi Street from 2011 until his death in 2012. He was but a greater
arts mentor. We appreciate the wisdom he shared with us.</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We hope we find you well. We
bring you our latest literary newsletter which you will find enjoyable. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We are glad to
announce the winners of the 2022 WIN/JAC Script Writing Contest (See below). We
say CONGRATULATIONS! As usual, we will keep the winners and you our readers
updated about the rest of the process.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meanwhile, WIN has a
new physical abode in Epworth which will consolidate smooth planning and
running of projects. The new WIN space is expected to provide an environment for
growth.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We’re quite happy
that the COVID-19 situation seems to be improving, though we still need to
encourage one another to be alert for the sake of our beloved and ourselves.
Now that venues are opening doors to literary events, we are seeing lots of
poetry slams, book launches, writers’ meetings, et cetera, happening across the
country. Forward with literary arts!</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you for the
support. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The WIN Team</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">UPDATE: 2022 WIN/JAC WRITING CONTEST WINNERS</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd6NE1P2Z9fRl_m_aBoEkm2bL7TCgbvzDOA0nt4xBjvCqFo4y4Vlg99PTwj7QRTYwwIUhB507c470D9lMs3-EAwtMNePSSnBroVjPyDCz43anhyqzkPqVt-9S1Q7UdsWWlDeiN9HxVtE79oXsr5SukNpT650d0WGrOeso3JUTcz6Kr5y5csT3A8O9h/s400/JAC%20WIN%20LOGOS%20COMBINED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="400" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd6NE1P2Z9fRl_m_aBoEkm2bL7TCgbvzDOA0nt4xBjvCqFo4y4Vlg99PTwj7QRTYwwIUhB507c470D9lMs3-EAwtMNePSSnBroVjPyDCz43anhyqzkPqVt-9S1Q7UdsWWlDeiN9HxVtE79oXsr5SukNpT650d0WGrOeso3JUTcz6Kr5y5csT3A8O9h/w400-h183/JAC%20WIN%20LOGOS%20COMBINED.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">And the winners are…</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Amanda Ranganawa</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Brenda Dangare</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Gamuchirai Mandebvu</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Tinashe Dorobeni</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Memory Dete</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Makorokoto!</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Congratulations! </span><span style="color: #00b050;">Amhlope!</span></span></i></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">****</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">WIN FORTIFIES READING
PROMOTION PROGRAMME</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Beaven Tapureta</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb6qKuJBqVV2LhrWm-VKjfTYjq7T1bywHEJ5W1eeALufT1IB-1KoI23JHrNNowDDD-KIk1w7ydF9TAIFdRne2DVi8lo7W6EnLDT_J3H717oPvOcyBCZA3RfMnlwNWaDVXd02yh2ZPIYL72BIjTRzS5MhoiUmonYX8oVIkhfQLKEEHcl1jNwOIJULi7/s800/vine%20epworth%20office.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb6qKuJBqVV2LhrWm-VKjfTYjq7T1bywHEJ5W1eeALufT1IB-1KoI23JHrNNowDDD-KIk1w7ydF9TAIFdRne2DVi8lo7W6EnLDT_J3H717oPvOcyBCZA3RfMnlwNWaDVXd02yh2ZPIYL72BIjTRzS5MhoiUmonYX8oVIkhfQLKEEHcl1jNwOIJULi7/w400-h300/vine%20epworth%20office.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Writer Vine Ziwane
(left), who also sits on the WIN board, browsing a book with a young reader
Courage Mlambo who is helping in the new WIN space in Epworth. </i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><div style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.85pt; mso-element-linespan: 2; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 2.85pt; padding-right: 2.85pt; padding-top: 0in;" valign="top">On<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> May 30, 2022, a parcel of 23
different books arrived in Harare from Bulawayo-based writer Ericah Gwetai,
through celebrated film-maker Priscilla Sithole Ncube. The books were destined
for the new WIN office-library which opened two months ago at one of the board
members’ residence in Epworth.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her generous
donation adds to the growing show of support from Zimbabwean writers since the
office started to run officially. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of the 23 books,
some are heavily annotated by Gwetai’s own pen, and these, she revealed, were
part of study material for her degree some time ago. A few others are
autographed by such great African writers as Chinua Achebe and her lovely
daughter, the late Yvonne Vera.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her passion for book giving can
never be separated from her teaching profession, which she cherishes.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The spirit of being
a teacher has always been in me and even in my retired days I still find ways
to educate the young and encourage reading. I encourage reading for both
academic study and for adventure into different works of fiction literature. I
have taught in the rural areas such as in Tsholotsho and I really understand
the need for literature in the outer city areas, which is why I felt that I
must donate books to the new WIN office-library Epworth in Harare. It is a
community that has a lot of young children and adults that need literature to
motivate their minds and lives,” she said.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Soon after WIN
opened its new office, emerging authors such as Vine Ziwane, Tinashe Muchuri,
Stella Chegovo, and Godknows Maremera, put weight behind the WIN project by
donating few copies of their own published books.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The office, marked
by simplicity and situated right in a high-density location where nothing like
a library exists, has inspired WIN to seriously play its role in the promotion
of reading in less privileged communities in Zimbabwe. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is universally
understood that promoting literacy will, in the long run, lead to a vibrant
reading culture and eventually, a reliable book buying culture as the new
literates would have been inspired to continue reading or look for books wherever
they go.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Commenting on his
organization’s new office and its refreshed stance in Zimbabwe’s reading
development arena, US-based writer and WIN patron Professor Emmanuel Sigauke
saw it as a space for writers either to hang out or to read, but especially to
read.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I see this as a
space for writers to feel like writers, even if they come to hang out, or to
read, but especially to read. It’s great that the budding centre is receiving
book donations from authors. I consider reading works by other writers as more
empowering than writing alone,” he said.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is with deep
gratitude that WIN has received such huge support from Zimbabwean writers and
there are promises of more. The goal is to demonstrate that it is only through
the united efforts of writers, publishers, libraries of any form, that the
dignity of the Zimbabwean book industry can be restored.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;"> </span></b><br /> <span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">PHOBIAS: THE MEDIA’S
ROLE COMES UNDER SPOTLIGHT</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Beaven Tapureta</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOP1A_yXNKpvREeJ2PXXUCXwe4t1dguE929J2wPIY5EyuOhmIl354UFAf1jDzvh-ceCFXbXJMVjOVazSRzaQhRVsXbk9tomnfPJ-otytYObqmXRUNG4fTi96Gc-uQguisR8j5ij2O4u6cF9Id3uG0Mi2k5NoKEGGeMbrKdMNgQSbK3I5l-32rHEEVm/s297/OIP.oA2btfqYltpSD_wqQYjerQHaE5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="297" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOP1A_yXNKpvREeJ2PXXUCXwe4t1dguE929J2wPIY5EyuOhmIl354UFAf1jDzvh-ceCFXbXJMVjOVazSRzaQhRVsXbk9tomnfPJ-otytYObqmXRUNG4fTi96Gc-uQguisR8j5ij2O4u6cF9Id3uG0Mi2k5NoKEGGeMbrKdMNgQSbK3I5l-32rHEEVm/w400-h264/OIP.oA2btfqYltpSD_wqQYjerQHaE5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An engrossing two-day
conference designed to de-bug the way the media presents all forms of phobias
was held at the University of Zimbabwe from May 11 to 12, 2022, under the theme
‘Media
Projections of Phobias in East and Southern Africa/Zimbabwe’.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The conference came into being
courtesy of the Department
of Creative Media and Communications.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Graced by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting, Honourable Monica
Mutsvangwa who was also guest of honour, and a delegation drawn from different professional
backgrounds, the inaugural annual conference had much emphasis on the need for
media research that should be conducted within the local context so that it
produces new knowledge helpful to all information and communication
stakeholders.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to the rapporteurs’
report, in her speech Minister Mutsvangwa saw social
and political phobias as impediments to social change. These phobias, the
Minister said, are ‘forms of socio-political tensions that manifest in
intolerance, excessive and unjustified fear, hatred and hate speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the quest to combat phobias is a
central discourse in political engagements relating to justice, tolerance and
diversity’.</span>
</p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While Africa and the
world has had various experiences of phobias, she said it was recommendable that
the conference ‘probes the degree to which the media projects,
spreads and or combats phobias in East Africa and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Southern Africa, generally, and Zimbabwe more
specifically’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Minister Mutsvangwa foregrounded the ‘need to do research
and not only research but the kind of research that will not only change the
society but also put media at the centre of national cohesion and development’.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Paul
Mapfumo emphasized that ‘universities are expected and mandated to come up with
researches that impact society, and in this context our media researchers are
expected to come up with media data that will be useful in national development’.</span> </p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Exciting were the incisive presentations and panel
discussions held under different topics such as ‘The role of the political class and the media in
combating xenophobia in South Africa’, ‘Harnessing the power of the arts and
media in national cohesion, patriotism and national development’, ‘Kairotic
moments in Zimbabwe: The church, media, national reconciliation and justice’, ‘Foe or Friend?: Zimbabwean media and the fight
against phobias’, and ‘The media and body based phobias: misogyny,
disability/ableism and sexualities’.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Zimbabwean (and South African) media
situation as regards coverage of phobias such as xenophobia was closely looked
at under discussion topic ‘Foe or Friend? Zimbabwean Media and the Fight
Against Phobias’.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The panellists, Prof I Mandaza, Prof
Mhiripiri, Mr L Dube, Mr N Nyamutumba and Mr D Muleya illustrated how the case
of Nyathi, a victim of xenophobia in South Africa was reported from biased
angles.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The report shows that Prof Mandaza used Nyathi’s example to show how ‘the
media has not been useful in bringing out xenophobia especially in South
Africa. Nyathi was killed through stoning, burning and human beings were
jeering on. Media did not do enough in South Africa to cover this story where a
human being was killing another in South Africa’. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prof
Mandaza emphasized that Pan-Africanism, which dictates that ‘No African is foreign in Africa’ has to be installed in the media.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The report also says one of the panellists, Mr
D Muleya said the ‘media sets the
narrative. He highlighted that in South Africa, the narrative is ambivalent/
not clear. He made reference to a headline which said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nyathi murdered following the murdering of South Africans by foreigners</i>.
In his view, such a headline is confusing as to whether the journalist meant
that Nyathi’s murder is justified because there was some murdering of South
Africans that had just happened with the perpetrators assumed to be Zimbabwean
or what?’.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
panellist Prof Mhiripiri recommended that academics shouldn’t shy away from the
fight against all phobias.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to the report, Prof Mhiripiri saw it
unfair to put the role of fighting against all forms of phobias entirely on the
journalist but said ‘academics
equally have a role to play in inciting these discourses through their research
and so on...and academics have more time to research and write on these issues
than the journalist who does not have much luxury if they are in the news room’.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The training of journalists in issues to do
with phobias is paramount, so implied Mr Dube, the third panellist. He took it
as “imperative that
the media be schooled and knowledgeable. A lot of research has to be done
because it gives a platform for fact checking some of the phobias we have.’</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr Nyamutumba explained some matters of good
media practice which the report mentions as follows: the media should be the
truth, be informed in order to inform, and educated in order to educate.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Surely, interesting and mind-opening were all presentations
and panel discussions as reported by the rapporteurs, and if these conference
papers are published for academics and journalists, and other stakeholders, the
foundation would be laid for a better understanding of, and therefore a better
solution to, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all phobias in Africa and the
whole world.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Renowned writer and
actor Aaron Chiundura Moyo also delivered guest lecture ‘Personal Reflections
on Edutainment’ during the same conference but this writer couldn’t get an
adequate report or recording of what he talked about.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, in a short
chat, fellow writer Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya who attended the conference said she
enjoyed the key issues the legendary author tackled which include lack of
originality and identity in our arts sector.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ngwenya said she
concurred with Chiundura Moyo’s acknowledgement of the Nigerian storytellers
whom he said create stories which one can feel because they capture every
little thing, even habits of the community where the story is happening, and
through this, they build a touching context. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chiundura Moyo had
word of advice for our musicians also, that they should be original and
creative.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Some Images
from the Event</b></u></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Photos: Tatenda R C Moyo)</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rqOphuZQ9GN2jf1qoshoMuemm0nYI9sTHwlU8MYtZxKqkUOTEb8ZGGtvoem6_90LUUX2CnhFHo3M5OTzYXX6fKOx4qWm-nPEYSclUPVXTd0dI5iINVmOV-MK5eqBmSTyYt2kP2aEOxbtUV1umQiZIfgrMm3riymElKuWZmcxDX-_Up4960_qaR3M/s807/ac%20moyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="807" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rqOphuZQ9GN2jf1qoshoMuemm0nYI9sTHwlU8MYtZxKqkUOTEb8ZGGtvoem6_90LUUX2CnhFHo3M5OTzYXX6fKOx4qWm-nPEYSclUPVXTd0dI5iINVmOV-MK5eqBmSTyYt2kP2aEOxbtUV1umQiZIfgrMm3riymElKuWZmcxDX-_Up4960_qaR3M/w400-h300/ac%20moyo.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aaron Chiundura Moyo<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDgkhMnlE0_2IpYoSiFa9SAYxLPMbe5j5FizqKDENNmMVWTC4F6roEMO5N45WYwKktJ4dOmCIuXux37tWHFdeRPKH2Bt50TKHC-CzdGSSMdz6NjF7RCdDtoAudKAjlmNhadpZPJbPVzoQN1Rfu6D0yXZvnSXj6saH86YnHc_vS60j4NfJYHolTwmY/s716/ac%20moyo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="716" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDgkhMnlE0_2IpYoSiFa9SAYxLPMbe5j5FizqKDENNmMVWTC4F6roEMO5N45WYwKktJ4dOmCIuXux37tWHFdeRPKH2Bt50TKHC-CzdGSSMdz6NjF7RCdDtoAudKAjlmNhadpZPJbPVzoQN1Rfu6D0yXZvnSXj6saH86YnHc_vS60j4NfJYHolTwmY/w400-h339/ac%20moyo2.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcO1Jil_Fx0Fxs64fJAssGEA_WH4cbmhbjCK1IR0Fw0y6ul63L4llvEUsfkoT5zYOWR2AydjhocFJQ292W6u-y35oGcJgXiVmXGW9cPEfKP2M3dQNEn9M5GIKBbiuUr6oe4D2qziGw-TtJVKFccroQXe4SQJn91DlGJcwXJe9PqDrrtW739iNCi-Dk/s768/tsitsi%20nomsa%20and%20ac%20moyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="768" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcO1Jil_Fx0Fxs64fJAssGEA_WH4cbmhbjCK1IR0Fw0y6ul63L4llvEUsfkoT5zYOWR2AydjhocFJQ292W6u-y35oGcJgXiVmXGW9cPEfKP2M3dQNEn9M5GIKBbiuUr6oe4D2qziGw-TtJVKFccroQXe4SQJn91DlGJcwXJe9PqDrrtW739iNCi-Dk/w400-h225/tsitsi%20nomsa%20and%20ac%20moyo.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A C Moyo seen here with writer
Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0YZ9yc-Wy9HFYiWgctGd9L1CFObd7NCqzLZefWlllJxuMzY6Ert9znNEVT1LHA0rRSgS6EhaEu9hIgsQSt0Jqsc0oxbLx_AfGsqFY_o1aJJ5hMn3RTaPL2J5k-s1Xu_U_R-XNeYjfK2_XgReT_Aqm4UaIB9qWoEeoXgDA1tl6ITGT2UpYzfd-towI/s1080/prof%20chivandikwa%20nomsa%20and%20ac%20moyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="1080" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0YZ9yc-Wy9HFYiWgctGd9L1CFObd7NCqzLZefWlllJxuMzY6Ert9znNEVT1LHA0rRSgS6EhaEu9hIgsQSt0Jqsc0oxbLx_AfGsqFY_o1aJJ5hMn3RTaPL2J5k-s1Xu_U_R-XNeYjfK2_XgReT_Aqm4UaIB9qWoEeoXgDA1tl6ITGT2UpYzfd-towI/w400-h225/prof%20chivandikwa%20nomsa%20and%20ac%20moyo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> From L to R: Prof Nehemiah Chivandikwa,
Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya and A C Moyo<p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br /></span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">SINISTER
MOTIVE</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">
LAUNCHED IN SOUTH AFRICA</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beaven Tapureta</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wellington Mudhluri with a copy
of his novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sinister Motive</i></span> </p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the author of a
self-development book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stretch Yourself
Beyond Limits</i> (2020) comes a crime thriller Sinister Motive recently
launched in South Africa where the author lives.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wellington
Mudhluri’s writing enthusiasm straddles fiction and nonfiction, and in his
latest book, it finds such vivacious expression that we are left expecting more
from him, even poetry!</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sinister Motive was
well received at its official launch on May 10, 2022, at the Brass Bell
restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tony White, who owns
the venue, could not help share his excitement about hosting a book launch for
the first time in all the forty years that he has been operating.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“There was never
anything of this calibre; Wellington has made history at Brass Bell. It takes
big brains to write a book, this is incredible,” he said.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One of the guests
said she had begun preparing for the evening launch in the morning as it was a
treat different from the usual friend-to-friend chat over a glass of wine. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From home
(Zimbabwe), the author received special congratulatory messages from friends
and relatives, including his publisher Samantha Nunu in Bulawayo and Writers
International Network Zimbabwe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And some
of the messages were read out at the launch.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A recorded short
conversation conducted on stage between the author and Wendy Scarcella shows
highlights of Mudhluri’s life as a writer living in South Africa.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He also spoke about
his book.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I wrote about a
mother being abused in Soweto, a South African township. I wrote about an
orphan longing for his mother’s love. I wrote about death of innocent people.
All these things being caused by a sinister motive,” he said.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For Mudhluri, the
book launch was a springboard to the next level. He told WIN there is hope that
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sinister Motive</i> could be adapted into
film in South Africa. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And he hasn’t
forgotten the readers back home who are eagerly waiting to grab a copy.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I receive calls
from readers in Zimbabwe who are greatly interested in the book. I am arranging
ways to reach out to them with through local bookstores. And I will also put it
on Amazon for the international readers,” he said.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sinister
Motive, </i>set
in South Africa, is truly a suspenseful story, well-plotted, and one that
delves deep into the heart of a society besieged by organized crime,
corruption, broken families, inheritance struggles, and much more.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It follows the life
of an orphan named Xolani who grows up to become the bone of contention in a
complex network of crime without him knowing about the schemes. One of the
outstanding characters is Xolani’s mother, actually a courageous woman who
bears all the grief, pain, loneliness, while hoping for a better future for her
son.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wellington Mudhluri
grew up and attended both primary and high school in Zimbabwe. He later went to
South Africa to study Economics at the University of South Africa. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji0FixNSZHxbdWMashMv8c4vGdeBW9MC_u0F5Wk3z18LGZRHk4K5MeHGxmUpnx04281ApJCkdmu9ArePR7LYFDgSPYNzKiBmGKGjQNdAdmsqVTiRurv9C8X6hO3tAMmHDPVz5SP6pLrNUyxY_WYwoTo2B-cNEsfPoYnMSa5WKSbubRUii9blYpAJE-/s886/wellingon%20being%20inerviewed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="886" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji0FixNSZHxbdWMashMv8c4vGdeBW9MC_u0F5Wk3z18LGZRHk4K5MeHGxmUpnx04281ApJCkdmu9ArePR7LYFDgSPYNzKiBmGKGjQNdAdmsqVTiRurv9C8X6hO3tAMmHDPVz5SP6pLrNUyxY_WYwoTo2B-cNEsfPoYnMSa5WKSbubRUii9blYpAJE-/w400-h300/wellingon%20being%20inerviewed.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The author being interviewed on
stage by Wendy Scarcella</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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poses with her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Surviving The Agony
of Shame</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><p align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfpHKEpmOGoJLL-Ay8zXUsPNWraikTCtJIZNaewfr9TlzRrovdMBZ12z0khjy-twpmbKlWdTnmQkM1Es45AmVmE4ipnNK98hy671F4fVjjV2pqszYZ88pVXbUb5Ui2Omvtt7qhNr1aiwQ_VbMq5p3VWJk4XOPU-Krak3Rn1mkZOYpK_b7CsnzW8uN/s516/mimi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="516" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfpHKEpmOGoJLL-Ay8zXUsPNWraikTCtJIZNaewfr9TlzRrovdMBZ12z0khjy-twpmbKlWdTnmQkM1Es45AmVmE4ipnNK98hy671F4fVjjV2pqszYZ88pVXbUb5Ui2Omvtt7qhNr1aiwQ_VbMq5p3VWJk4XOPU-Krak3Rn1mkZOYpK_b7CsnzW8uN/s320/mimi.jpg" width="320" /></a></strong></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Mimi
Machakaire</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In today’s society, the
themes in the literary traditions of contemporary Africa are worked out
frequently within the strictures that are laid down by the imported religions,
Christianity and Islam, and within the struggle between traditional and modern,
between rural and newly urban, between genders, and between generations. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Through research, we
can safely say that </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/folk-literature" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">oral tradition</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> is
evident in the popular </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/literature" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">literature</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> of
the marketplace and the major urban centres, created by literary storytellers
who are manipulating the original materials much as oral storytellers do, at
the same time remaining faithful to the tradition. However, some of the early
writers sharpened their writing abilities by translating works into African
languages; others collected oral tradition, and most experienced their
apprenticeships in one way or another within the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contexts" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">contexts</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> of
living oral traditions.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Even more so, there
was a clear interaction between the deeply rooted oral tradition and the
developing literary traditions of the 20th century. This means that the
interaction is revealed in the placing of literary works into the forms of oral
tradition. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The impact of
the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/epic" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">epic</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> on the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/novel" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">novel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">,
for instance, continues to influence writers today. The oral tradition in the
work of some of the early writers of the 20th century, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amos-Tutuola" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Amos Tutuola</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> of </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Nigeria" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Nigeria</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">,
D.O. Fagunwa in </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yoruba" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Yoruba</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">,
Violet Dube in Zulu, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/S-E-K-Mqhayi" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">S.E.K. Mqhayi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> in
Xhosa, and Mario António in Portuguese, is further readily evident. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It was also recorded
that, some of these writings were merely imitations of the oral tradition and
were therefore not influential. Such antiquarians did little more than
retelling, recasting, or transcribing materials from the oral tradition. On the
other hand, the work of writers such as Tutuola had a </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dynamic" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">dynamic</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> effect on the
developing literary tradition; such works went beyond mere imitation.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the end, the most
successful early African writers knew what could be done with the oral
tradition; they understood how its structures and images could be transposed to
a literary mode, and they were able to distinguish imitation from organic
growth. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Another example can
be found when Guybon Sinxo explored the relationship between oral tradition and
writing in his popular Xhosa novels, and </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-C-Jordan" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">A.C. Jordan</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> (in
Xhosa), O.K. Matsepe (in Sotho), and R.R.R. Dhlomo (in Zulu) built on that kind
of writing, establishing new relationships not only between oral and written
materials but between the written and the unwritten; that is, between the
writers of popular </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/fiction-literature" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">fiction</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> and
those writers who wished to create a more serious form of literature. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Therefore, after all
is said and done, writers in Africa today owe much to African oral tradition
and to those authors who have occupied the space between the two traditions, in
an area of creative interaction.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></strong></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CONCLUSION </span></strong></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">There’s a lot that
can be highlighted not only in literature but in African literature and
storytelling overall. This art can be seen as an imitation of human action. It
often presents a picture of what people think, say and do in society. For
example, in literature, we find stories designed to portray human life and
action through some characters who, by their words, action and reaction, convey
certain messages for education, information and entertainment.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">While we can safely
say that the distribution of African Literature has been carefully developed
over time, we still need to put more out there for the sake of our growing
generation and posterity. The youth is still learning about their African
stories in entertaining yet creative ways; this means that as we age over time
the narrative ages with us.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">For example, Modern
African literature has gained recognition worldwide with writers such as Mazisi
Kunene, Ngugi wa Thiongo and the late Okot p'Bitek who first wrote some of
their works in African languages before translating them into English. Someone
once said, "<em>Tell
them the story. Just tell them. We are all witnesses</em>."</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">While story means so
much in every culture and ethnicity, we as Africans come from a long line of
storytellers, and we seek out the stories that shed light on who we are.
Therefore we have the power of storytelling to use not only as a reflection of
society but also as a corrective mirror in which members of the society can
look at themselves and find the need for positive change.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">BOOK REVIEW</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By Fortune Munsaka</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG4i9sR3309QOPe4nlbIVjG1LK3MkmFxLiykCY03MfGvrWgkWZblHn7NilfS_PQtk5iQvx-TlwK0YOKaOhJNkyZeV93eLIFIkZkNo9l5dvjBrVFEwltgWv6qV_9wde6FkM998BAHf66O3VEFe2dKC7SUeXOpNELUSMIUhNnDXpou6-38cSsFGQef_/s1057/cover%20of%20BEHIND%20THE%20DESK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="710" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG4i9sR3309QOPe4nlbIVjG1LK3MkmFxLiykCY03MfGvrWgkWZblHn7NilfS_PQtk5iQvx-TlwK0YOKaOhJNkyZeV93eLIFIkZkNo9l5dvjBrVFEwltgWv6qV_9wde6FkM998BAHf66O3VEFe2dKC7SUeXOpNELUSMIUhNnDXpou6-38cSsFGQef_/w269-h400/cover%20of%20BEHIND%20THE%20DESK.jpg" width="269" /></a></b></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQiCy5HHoiQzuTHI69VfEA6lkya7PHItI08iP2uwS54_iDKp8EtGCSqTJrWTfTKb83XJB1CYnpS7jsUQL9YtU_z9zSuSqJB6QFatGNr_u3ouVNfdf15_jTjIiQvcmoVbaWVNLF-RI0BhCRxo9AqHZy3kkxfxrSLgAdFFy6mRTBw99mxVp6N2QR1f5/s936/emmah%20kasukuwere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="606" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQiCy5HHoiQzuTHI69VfEA6lkya7PHItI08iP2uwS54_iDKp8EtGCSqTJrWTfTKb83XJB1CYnpS7jsUQL9YtU_z9zSuSqJB6QFatGNr_u3ouVNfdf15_jTjIiQvcmoVbaWVNLF-RI0BhCRxo9AqHZy3kkxfxrSLgAdFFy6mRTBw99mxVp6N2QR1f5/w259-h400/emmah%20kasukuwere.jpg" width="259" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQiCy5HHoiQzuTHI69VfEA6lkya7PHItI08iP2uwS54_iDKp8EtGCSqTJrWTfTKb83XJB1CYnpS7jsUQL9YtU_z9zSuSqJB6QFatGNr_u3ouVNfdf15_jTjIiQvcmoVbaWVNLF-RI0BhCRxo9AqHZy3kkxfxrSLgAdFFy6mRTBw99mxVp6N2QR1f5/s936/emmah%20kasukuwere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></i></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind The Desk</i> is a book by Emmah
Kasukuwere (pictured), one of the Zimbabwean contemporary poets whose ambition
is to revive and zoom all the life-ills under her poetic binoculars. Emmah's
observations in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind The Desk</i>, as
the title richly symbolizes, deal with life in the office and brings forth a
common, yet gruesome reality in the heart of our society.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The title itself
complements the subjects tackled inside the book. This is mostly reflected in
the poem “Stronger”, "The Boss" among many others which strongly
speak out about patriarchal acts and work class incongruence.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The poet’s simple
and straightforward narrative style holds some taste of originality and this
accommodates every reader despite their level of literacy. And through her
creativity, Emmah does not leave her style trite. She proves the uniqueness of
her writing.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind The Desk</i> is decorated with
consistent and complete messages which do not leave a reader hanging but
craving for more. One of the poems that tickle is ‘The Boss’ which makes impact
through its conversational and dramatic style. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hello Sir, you called me, I
spoke shyly.</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes I called you and what took
you so long?</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Are you proving to be an
incompetent secretary In the first few days?</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I remained silent.</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This is interesting.
Very few poets take this route of creating poetry so alive through simple
conversations. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Striding down the
pages of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind The Desk</i> one may
discover the significance of this work as the poet wears a feminist robe,
baring all work place and social ills. A victim can easily relate to a poem “My
Home” while after feasting on it, will feel refreshed because there's sharing
of same sentiments with the persona.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I come from a home,</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A home where abuse exists among
relatives,</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I get abused by a male
relative,</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence is key,</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For we may end up losing
family.</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes this is my home.</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emmah Kasukuwere is a poet
worth genuine acknowledgement for her artistic way of bringing relevant themes
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind The Desk</i> such as women
empowerment, entrepreneurship, girl child protection, and women’s rights.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Fortune Munsaka is </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">an
author, poet and attested International Human Rights and Peace Ambassador. He
is also Founder and Director of Creative Minds Alive and a Publishing
Consultant at PreDawn Books & Films, a division of CREATIVE MINDS ALIVE)</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">THE SOURCE</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Motivation for girls)</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tAmJvW9qYuqMgcOrMuDeD1WV1MbsshoSqhgU9Pev74S9EEkHjO9vYXvj6Q2j084mQsXR-m6jI-5tA4CUex2WHEj6d7hio8EIKJwj8sEmH99VKj6_NAh0vxWe_hIPEEwy5rCjigLElzdxWFtQ33bkFHdqUmKZp19OzJy8hF5rpk9lyBXpbons8bBd/s617/Stella%20Chegovo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tAmJvW9qYuqMgcOrMuDeD1WV1MbsshoSqhgU9Pev74S9EEkHjO9vYXvj6Q2j084mQsXR-m6jI-5tA4CUex2WHEj6d7hio8EIKJwj8sEmH99VKj6_NAh0vxWe_hIPEEwy5rCjigLElzdxWFtQ33bkFHdqUmKZp19OzJy8hF5rpk9lyBXpbons8bBd/s320/Stella%20Chegovo.jpg" width="266" /></a></b></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pastor Stella
Chegovo</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, author
of the book The Source, after which the column is named</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A
Girl’s Mindset Should Be Clean</b></span></u></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What is mindset? These are
thoughts and beliefs that shape your habits. What does God say about mindset?</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Set
your mind on the things above not on the things that are on earth. Colossians
3: 2</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I like this verse.
As a teenager you should set your mind on the things above because the things
above bring you good life. If you follow this verse, you will not rush for
things that are not of your age, but you will be content with what you have.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Too much craving for
things that you cannot afford will lead you into trouble. Your mindsets, my
dear girls, have to be washed by the blood of Jesus so that you think right and
please God. You need to have clean mindsets.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Earthly things lead
you into trouble. For example, as teenage girls you may think about going to beer
halls or night parties or clubs or any of those unsafe places, believing that
no one will see you. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This earthly
activity will receive condemnation from your parents. Everyone else in society will
ban their daughters from associating with you because they will take you as bad
influence. They become afraid that you might go with their daughters to the
beer hall. So you will lose respect and dignity by being more into earthly
things. You need to be associated with the Word of God.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another earthly
thinking which you are not allowed to have at your age is about having
boyfriends. You will disappoint your parents or your guardians by getting into
these relationships early. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some of you do it
just because your friends are doing it. I say, stay away from this activity
because you will lose your concentration at school and your performance will drop.
You will start lying to your parents/guardians about your whereabouts, so be
very careful not to be involved in this earthly activity which will destroy
your future. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Girls who have
rushed to have boyfriends while they are teenagers have paid the high price:
pregnancy and dropping out of school, which is very disheartening and you will
be a disgrace to your family.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wrong friends are an
‘earthly activity’ which will lead you to have bad relationships with your
parents and relatives. When you have a bad friend nothing good comes out of
that connection because the Word of God says bad company corrupts good morals. A
bad friend will drive you to do what you are not supposed to do; you will be
doing something that will make you hate yourself in the end. You will not
listen to your parents. You will become rude and would not want to help with
some household chores or look after a baby. The devil will tell you that it’s
not your job to do all that. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is your duty to
help your parents. Focus your mind on the things above, honor your parents and refuse
to associate with wrong friends.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you happen to
have a mobile phone, abusing it is another earthly activity that is not good
for you because it chokes the Holy Spirit in you and you will not be able to
hear the voice of God. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you are connected
to wrong friends you will end up receiving wrong messages in your phone, wrong
audios, wrong videos and pictures. This will make you want to follow or
practice what you hear or see in your phone. The devil is cunning he will trap
you through your phone. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A phone should be
used for online academic researches or studies and good communication with
friends and relatives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will bring pleasure
to those around you, especially your parents/guardians because you have nothing
to hide. Do not use your phone to search for evil sites because soon you will
be like those people you see doing evil things, which is not good for you.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And
do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind so that you may prove that the will of God is that which is good and
acceptable and perfect. Romans 12: 2</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Worldly thinking is
condemned by the Word of God. The emphasis on this issue is greater because the
world does not bring anything good. Yet the kingdom of God has abundance of
good things. So as teenagers, read the Word of God, for it has directions for
your life.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Therefore
if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of Love,
if there is any fellowship of the spirit, if any affection and compassion make
my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love united in
spirit, intent on one purpose.</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Philippians
2: 1-2</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I want to highlight the
part which says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">being of the same mind</i>.
Our mindsets should be united; we should not change like the waves of the sea.
Unity will help us to come out with one thing in life without confusion.
Thinking too much causes confusion. So let’s do what the Word wants us to do
and let’s not have confusion.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I,
the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give each man according to
his ways, according to the results of his deeds. Jeremiah 17: 10</i></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Let us have a pure
mind so that when God tests it He finds positive thinking and our rewards will
be great because God loves to see us all using our minds to think right things.
He rewards us in abundance when we please Him. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I urge you girls to score
100 percent mark when we are tested by God because our results determine what
we get from God.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lastly, think about
things from Above as we are told to do by the Word of God. Have unity in spirit
and mind as advised by God, and score high marks when tested by God so as to be
rewarded according to your deeds.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God bless you.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">ONLINE WRITING
POLLUTING ZIMBABWEAN SOCIETY?</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Johannes Mike Mupisa
aka Chana CheMasvingo</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrai9P2iU0MWRptEpSAwQzzJf7Y9fp5FKw2-EX_u5AlToT_YdkwH4y22kiakMKKtksU265UkuMG3AEyHVMeLHZJj2NdOWOEHj1bGDtKbvV_EIdLzY04j3x1wcXqDYlS8fTPYV0zNS1bdm0ngsSqcx33LgyKVe4uxU_clYXikATvHoSJh7QZHtDSlQ6/s215/OIP.0Z4m8yL1ypg7l9D36VIjvwHaE7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="215" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrai9P2iU0MWRptEpSAwQzzJf7Y9fp5FKw2-EX_u5AlToT_YdkwH4y22kiakMKKtksU265UkuMG3AEyHVMeLHZJj2NdOWOEHj1bGDtKbvV_EIdLzY04j3x1wcXqDYlS8fTPYV0zNS1bdm0ngsSqcx33LgyKVe4uxU_clYXikATvHoSJh7QZHtDSlQ6/s1600/OIP.0Z4m8yL1ypg7l9D36VIjvwHaE7.jpg" width="215" /></a></div> <p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The digital age which has
crucified the reading culture in the young and old, especially of hard copy
literature, has its fair share of pros and cons. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The digitization
drive undertaken by the government and that was at its peak during the
Government of National Unity through the Ministry of ICT left the greater part
of the population with smart phones and access to the internet and its various
social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Instagram. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Politicians,
business people, celebrities, artists and other business personnel took
advantage of this to advertise themselves and their products. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The writing
community was not left behind in this scramble but it was the birth of a new
breed of authors. It was their avenue to get their work published after facing
hurdles pursuing the traditional route. With all the tedious processes that
authors were made to go through to have their work published, online writing
came as a breath of fresh air, so it seemed. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Through social media
platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook, authors accrued huge following. Some of
the pioneers of this breed of authors are Brighton Gundani, Lovely Rutendo
Nzira, Dr TM, Mai Tee of Mai Tee Stories and many others.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The novels and books
shared on social media are easy to read but never follow the conventions of
general writing, with some full of grammatical errors and with a mix-up of
languages. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In as much as this
has helped the writing industry to remain active, this breed of writers has
also polluted society in some way. Explicit and very pornographic literature is
distributed on WhatsApp. It seems this type of writing, written mostly in first
person, has a much huge following on social media. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Max of Max Stories
who is one of the pioneers of erotic writing says that through his writing he
teaches people about what society regards as a no-go area but a necessity in
everyday life. He said through erotic writing he takes the place of the
traditional <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tetes</i> and uncles who had
the role of teaching about ‘bedmantics.’ </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, he also
admitted that some women especially the married ones inboxed him and ask if he
could put into practice with them what he theorizes in his writing. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Online writing is
the panacea to the woes and the troubles met in traditional publishing but
without censorship, this type of writing has negative social influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It leaves the young with the urge to exercise
these sacred erotic sessions out of curiosity aroused by the rompy sex episodes
detailed in these books. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The majority of the
erotic stories celebrate extramarital relationships most of which involve
unprotected sex. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is high time
authors take it upon themselves to be responsible so that they make positive
influence on society. With the power of words authors should encourage unity,
peace, political tolerance and Ubuntu rather than spread negative influence on
society. They should be champions of positivity.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">VOICE FROM THE MOUNTAINS</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Clever Simbarashe Kavenga</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AUTHOR
PROFILE</b></span></u></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_YEwDA3dLpkIPBpYfTnwVJzUqwpVIoe2u-IQhQt0wtlgfZKvCqqLTURkoc_-15KxVgCQFz_7PVPuchTXPp0yawgZx0qeZRDs94qB-eHT6IaWxCmv8bWDMCo2AWdShS9FPRDg-2TFFX-27s5Siu4UbKVE_yKO8RyJtCRxr363xHCe2CZfXQj4kKDk/s941/PENJENI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="722" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_YEwDA3dLpkIPBpYfTnwVJzUqwpVIoe2u-IQhQt0wtlgfZKvCqqLTURkoc_-15KxVgCQFz_7PVPuchTXPp0yawgZx0qeZRDs94qB-eHT6IaWxCmv8bWDMCo2AWdShS9FPRDg-2TFFX-27s5Siu4UbKVE_yKO8RyJtCRxr363xHCe2CZfXQj4kKDk/w308-h400/PENJENI.jpg" width="308" /></a></b></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
</p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Penjeni Madzikangava, writer,
journalist and musician</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Still waters run deep! </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To some people Penjeni
Madzikangava is just a simple man from next door. But to us in the arts community
he is our shining diamond! He is a writer, musician and journalist. He is a man
bred from the rich dark soils of Dande Valley and now flourishing as an artist
in the city of flowers and beauty that's Mutare.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Welcomed to this
world in the early `70s in Chipiso Village under Chief Chiswiti, Penjeni did
not endure the burning sun of Dande for long as his parents shifted to the cool
environments of Manicaland. He left Chipiso village as a child and grew up in Mutare
where his father was employed. During those early years of his life they lived
in Dangamvura where he did his primary at Rujeko before he passed through the
bright gates of Dangamvura and Nyamauru where he did his secondary schooling.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is during the time
when he was still a student at Nyamauru High School that a school magazine
called 'The River Post' was established and Madzikangava was selected as one of
the magazine editors.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The writer in him
was awakened. His gift with the written words started to show to the people out
there.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The joy in creative
writing pushed him to enrol at Christian College of Southern Africa (CCOSA) and
trained in journalism and communication in 1994.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Madzikangava has so
far published two novels. His novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tears
and Scars</i> was nominated for the National Arts Merit Awards in 2017. His
second novel is titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dungeon of
Despair, </i>a sequel to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tears and Scars</i>.
</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Madzikangava says he
has more that’s coming and he feels proud of his buns still in the oven. Soon
or later, this project with scripts called 'Under Siege' and 'Echoes From The
Ghetto', could hit the bookshelves near you. He is also polishing up a handbook
for trainee journalists titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Source</i>.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Madzikangava is also
into music and he is one of our shining stars raising Mutare high in the arts
industry. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A father of three
children, Madzikangava currently lives in Hobhouse with his family. </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">About the situation
in the arts sector, he feels that many artists are vulnerable in these trying
times. The goose that once laid golden eggs especially for writers is dead and
buried. Piracy is spelling doom for the poor writers. However, he says not all is
dark and gloomy, for where there is life there is hope. Perseverance breeds
success.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="color: #800180;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">ZIBF COMMEMORATES WORLD BOOK & COPYRIGHT DAY</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQJCUNxBgl23YWmmqNXS5rFnk3e4B9nJRebGpRoS3mnu-38NTaqoSthVPXnK91zB_25EXSrX2K-h9vL0GyRtBWQC_J3n-OcA_0xYRwsSouvEACj1DEcAutXy2l1lHBg77rATLaGecpt3wMitW8ofVoJzl5GBylLjdoUZNS_DW81QTGDQ2a5G8TaKS/s800/ZIBF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQJCUNxBgl23YWmmqNXS5rFnk3e4B9nJRebGpRoS3mnu-38NTaqoSthVPXnK91zB_25EXSrX2K-h9vL0GyRtBWQC_J3n-OcA_0xYRwsSouvEACj1DEcAutXy2l1lHBg77rATLaGecpt3wMitW8ofVoJzl5GBylLjdoUZNS_DW81QTGDQ2a5G8TaKS/s320/ZIBF.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Zimbabwe International Book
Fair</b> (ZIBF) commemorated this year’s World Book and Copyright Day with a live
webinar on May 6 in the afternoon.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Under a localized
theme ‘Book Publishing and Copyright’, the webinar had three presenters Masimba
Tinashe Madondo, a publisher, Ralph Kadurira, a writer, and Freddy Michael
Masarirevu who is a legal expert<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Visit the following links to
ZIBF Facebook page to access what transpired on May 6:</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/566461828094380/" target="_blank"><b>Copyright Law Session </b></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/738563983935724/" target="_blank"><b>Part 2:</b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span itemprop="articleBody"><i>World Book and Copyright Day:</i><strong> </strong>It
is also known as World Book Day. It is celebrated every year on April
23 to highlight the importance of reading books. According to UNESCO,
"storytelling is an incredibly effective tool when it comes to educating
younger generations." The day is also dedicated to paying respect to
renowned authors, including William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes, and
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, who died on this day. In 2022, the World Book
Capital is the Mexican city of Guadalajara. </span> <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">CHILDREN’S LITERATURE</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">The Old Man And The Lions</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">By Aleck Kaposa</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyt-7yTD9gUGP50rwB_OIzouMRAan2i1EICF9NXDiX7cmbxwnegHvqIyrR72fTOF-a3qIf8tb1b5xeB_kvKmA_9uomtic9YbWUNf964rlyJI1eM-K7toBnfCL1EXTH3oDElF7cYhSq0Q9AceFqRJYXEJK4yHz4ZFeQCWbjizJhLLwQSzBS5IYeo7eA/s295/OIP.H7beKmhMQ1JbN29Qzpp5wAHaFS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="295" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyt-7yTD9gUGP50rwB_OIzouMRAan2i1EICF9NXDiX7cmbxwnegHvqIyrR72fTOF-a3qIf8tb1b5xeB_kvKmA_9uomtic9YbWUNf964rlyJI1eM-K7toBnfCL1EXTH3oDElF7cYhSq0Q9AceFqRJYXEJK4yHz4ZFeQCWbjizJhLLwQSzBS5IYeo7eA/w400-h286/OIP.H7beKmhMQ1JbN29Qzpp5wAHaFS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">The afternoon sun shone through
shreds of white clouds that hung high in the sky as the three brothers, Noel,
Big Bother Pias and Ali made their way out of Mudzururu forest near Lilfordia
Farm. Their shirts’ and trousers’ pockets were full of ripe <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">matohwe</i> which they had been gathering
since mid-day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The
forest was dense with rock outcrops and hillocks here and there, thousands of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">munhondo, muhacha, mutiti, muchecheni,
muhute, muonde</i> and acacia trees and tall grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eight year old Noel was a little bit afraid
of the chattering monkeys swinging from one tree to the other and the birds
that made strange sounds. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“I
am afraid of those monkeys and things from the forest that are making strange
sounds,” he said in a low voice and looked up ahead in the distance, towards
the black hill known as Gomo raSatani.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“There
is nothing to be afraid of, Nono,” Big Brother Pias said calmly as they
continued walking on the narrow path snaking around thickets. “We have got our
catapults and this big knife here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Nothing
will harm us here in this forest Nono,” Ten-year old Ali said to try and drive
Noel’s fears away. “There are no dangerous animals at all. It is just the
monkeys, the birds and the tall trees and tall grass…”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Suddenly
there was a loud roaring sound from somewhere not far away from where they
were. The three boys suddenly stopped in their tracks and listened as the
piercing sounds came again and again. The trees and the rock outcrops nearby
seemed to shake, as if a strong wind was blowing. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“I
think it’s some wild pigs fighting,” Pias said, his heart thudding loudly like
a drumbeat. “Let’s continue walking.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“We
will get home soon,” Ali said, getting hold of Noel’s trembling hand. “Don’t be
afraid of anything Nono….”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The
roaring sound came again but this time it was louder and more frightening. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Then
Noel looked at the narrow path ahead of them and screamed.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Look
my brothers!” he said, pointing at three advancing animals.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">When
the three boys gazed in front of them, they saw three lions running towards
them, raising some dust. Pias quickly grabbed both Noel and Ali by the hands
and started running in the opposite direction. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Let
us pray,” Noel said as they tore through bushes and tall grass with the three
lions getting closer with each passing moment. “Jesus, please save us. Amen.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">At
that very moment there appeared in front of them a very old man with white hair
and long beard holding a long stick.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“What
are you boys running away from?” the old man asked. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“The
lions!” the three boys screamed together, pointing at the advancing lions.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Come with me. I will take you home.” the old
man said pointing at the lions with his long stick. When the lions saw him,
they suddenly stopped and stood still. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 290.6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old man held
the three boys’ hands and walked past the lions which all looked away and
started yawning. The boys’ hearts beat loudly but they held onto the old man’s
thin hands. The lions then turned and started running away towards Gomo
raSatani.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Don’t
be afraid of the lions,” the old man said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">After
walking for about one and half kilometers in total silence held firmly in the
old man’s arms,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the boys were relieved
to see the farm compound appear not so far away at last. At that very moment
they met an old white lady, Mrs. Lilford who had a gun. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hallo
boys did you see any animals around here?” she asked.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“We
saw three lions that wanted to attack us and …” Noel said.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“You
did?” Mrs. Lilford said in surprise. “Those lions escaped from the Lion and
Cheetah Park this morning.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yes,
they were going to attack us but the old man stopped them?”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“Which
old man, and where is he?” Mrs. Lilford asked.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“He
is… was…” Noel said stammering.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The
three boys looked all over around them but could not find the old man. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“He
just disappeared a few moments ago.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“That
sounds strange,” Mrs. Lilford said and started walking towards Gomo raSatani. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">SOMETHING GOOD IN STORE</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">FOR YOU EARLY JULY</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQ2HQ7ulx6gMn8QXwsU5A5WJjiPqQt49kjQXzbq9pVAFMqO3ULXq6Rc0X-fpml1m91BXegcHjY0gz1VgDFxrXJV6ozWHw84eyxVGuMCpk1e3Eopi-ZkgygqBGmOw0Ch3xWiznbbgevlTgJSTrA3_o4GrS-FmtmzHeVMGUlbo5RlkWj87_cM8QSKM2/s1000/mafukidze%20bk%20launch%20advert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="707" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQ2HQ7ulx6gMn8QXwsU5A5WJjiPqQt49kjQXzbq9pVAFMqO3ULXq6Rc0X-fpml1m91BXegcHjY0gz1VgDFxrXJV6ozWHw84eyxVGuMCpk1e3Eopi-ZkgygqBGmOw0Ch3xWiznbbgevlTgJSTrA3_o4GrS-FmtmzHeVMGUlbo5RlkWj87_cM8QSKM2/w283-h400/mafukidze%20bk%20launch%20advert.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_kr3HhkUnln2lRD_nEL7wE82F8ttfeuq1uJ4n4bzsu66omJAFy22VtYhr2XjENL2ROTS6_OqRTaGUeNViUnqR7WfFM7z47393cPXHDGLIN0CAkcpHJLSd5ph-DaXxnsTPCG6jmTTFD-9__w2NPsyNIXG_c1mpVJi9JzSG55OxeHrAA3Dhq4o3z_ng/s1600/Pastor%20Rhoda%20Mafukidze.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1136" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_kr3HhkUnln2lRD_nEL7wE82F8ttfeuq1uJ4n4bzsu66omJAFy22VtYhr2XjENL2ROTS6_OqRTaGUeNViUnqR7WfFM7z47393cPXHDGLIN0CAkcpHJLSd5ph-DaXxnsTPCG6jmTTFD-9__w2NPsyNIXG_c1mpVJi9JzSG55OxeHrAA3Dhq4o3z_ng/w284-h400/Pastor%20Rhoda%20Mafukidze.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pastor
Rhoda Mafukidze</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">THANK YOU</span> <span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">FOR</span>
<span style="color: #2b00fe;">READING</span>.</span></b></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-5020469685896810262022-04-07T12:56:00.000+02:002022-04-07T12:56:02.488+02:00WIN LITERARY NEWSLETTER, VOL 2, ISSUE 19<p> <i style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">(This
is an official newsletter of Writers International Network Zimbabwe, edited and
published by its Publishing Unit</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: center;"><i>)</i></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">EDITORIAL</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4BBOOkgiYE5HVnj8PxZeVjJfZejGFttpQ6fMKnUgkeFSsBbBsQ4ktBJgUEf3xy9rEx1APQdUHGx6r2mUw9caqGjkP1WcGvqCtcRLs-AXjXVpXVPR8gvzSsjahfo-Yv02UB5Vl1UkJ2eeCgIXa9aui4sXjvjPcyg9FCv_x4vmZ7qtjOTYfaQJqt0E8/s753/young%20gwiriri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="753" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4BBOOkgiYE5HVnj8PxZeVjJfZejGFttpQ6fMKnUgkeFSsBbBsQ4ktBJgUEf3xy9rEx1APQdUHGx6r2mUw9caqGjkP1WcGvqCtcRLs-AXjXVpXVPR8gvzSsjahfo-Yv02UB5Vl1UkJ2eeCgIXa9aui4sXjvjPcyg9FCv_x4vmZ7qtjOTYfaQJqt0E8/w400-h320/young%20gwiriri.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The
charm of 2022 NAMA Awards:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">
10-year old Onald Gwiriri poses with his NAMA trophy, certificate and his Outstanding
Children Book titled <i>The Cursing Tortoise.</i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">WELCOME</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify;"> to the WIN Literary
Newsletter first issue of 2022, bringing an irresistible dose of information
about the tides and vibes in the literature field. We are excited to be back on
our feet after an extended season of absence. However, this is just the tip of
the iceberg, much more is coming!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">We celebrate authors
who were nominated and those who eventually won in different categories at the
NAMA Awards held in Harare in February 2022. At the centre of attraction was
young writer Onald Gwiriri who scooped the Outstanding Children’s Book award
for his first story <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cursing Tortoise</i>.
What more inspiration do other children (and youths) need for them to seriously
consider writing and publishing their own works? Bryony Rheam is the writer of
the moment; she won the Outstanding Fiction Book award for her second novel<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> All Come To Dust</i>, few months after the
same book won at the Bulawayo Arts Awards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Our Director Beaven
Tapureta felt so good to receive a gift of books from one of our elders, Erica
Gwetai, a writer in her own class and mother of the late iconic writer Yvonne
Vera. The parcel arrived courtesy of renowned film director Priscilla Ncube who
was attending a workshop in Harare. Four of the books are hers, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where Were You?</i> which received
nomination at the Bulawayo Arts Awards, while the other three are by her
daughter Yvonne Vera. Thank you Mama.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Another author G
Maremera donated two of his books to WIN. We are so grateful for this
show of support and one love. Don’t throw away that book if you no longer need
it, just remember us; we are open to book donations for our library and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>writers clubs also. To give a book is to
empower.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Meanwhile, the WIN
Board met online in February to discuss the future of WIN. The recommendations
of the meeting are being implemented in the background right now. We care about
you writers, please enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">ZIM
WOMEN WRITERS RECLAIMING THEIR POSITION</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;">Comment
by Emmanuel Sigauke (writer)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVCmMhahk7tQpkm21opHrpoZs2BKn2X6eYoF7kJA5LkGJqtb83ZxWsRXwzA5AA3UB747EHafuGNIvorL3OokEwb6_QYTXXyBJJUmZQ2HB1u93es5tY4oCv16QymVwnC1e3UWJjluPUFEE3hawch85rwyIQRv-3oQreTmUTBkZll5NwVI0px5V5KN5/s768/zim%20women%20writers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVCmMhahk7tQpkm21opHrpoZs2BKn2X6eYoF7kJA5LkGJqtb83ZxWsRXwzA5AA3UB747EHafuGNIvorL3OokEwb6_QYTXXyBJJUmZQ2HB1u93es5tY4oCv16QymVwnC1e3UWJjluPUFEE3hawch85rwyIQRv-3oQreTmUTBkZll5NwVI0px5V5KN5/w400-h400/zim%20women%20writers.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">“I am inspired by the role Zimbabwean women writers are playing
in telling our stories. It seems now that women writers have managed to reclaim
their position in the Zimbabwean literary landscape. In Zimbabwe, we have a good number of strong
female voices whose writing is establishing itself worldwide: Petina Gappah,
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, NoViolet Bulawayo, Bryony Rheam, Tsitsi Dangarembga,
Siphiwe Ndlovu, Sue Nyathi, Tari Ndowo, Sarah Ladipo Manyika... and more. And
these are strong voices from whom we can expect more. I feel we are in for a
real treat, because I am certain the world can expect more from these writers,
bold voices committed to craft. Their success is inspiring and will definitely
open opportunities for more Zim writers. I know I haven't mentioned some who
are on the ground, but I am sure that despite the challenges, a lot of writing
is happening there.”</span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">THE WIN/JAC WRITING
COMPETITION DEADLINE FURTHER EXTENDED</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlHUThzf1JBvYb6VU90f-ou99k2ZJE-hXwDKgGez-vBYMlVcSLff8anImqTAea9ZdXXCWZ02NxksnurlDzTmiphhsg9JymC36krcgy37K85yevRNcMX4uiMgR4wSx1GdBjbZA8u5cOlxsghblsoSDSuUEtMuyO5lpLjTvXBHwa042MO0hJ0O_xHzU/s400/JAC%20WIN%20LOGOS%20COMBINED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="400" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlHUThzf1JBvYb6VU90f-ou99k2ZJE-hXwDKgGez-vBYMlVcSLff8anImqTAea9ZdXXCWZ02NxksnurlDzTmiphhsg9JymC36krcgy37K85yevRNcMX4uiMgR4wSx1GdBjbZA8u5cOlxsghblsoSDSuUEtMuyO5lpLjTvXBHwa042MO0hJ0O_xHzU/w400-h183/JAC%20WIN%20LOGOS%20COMBINED.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 18pt;">WIN/JAC
has extended the deadline for the 2</span><sup style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">nd</sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> edition of the Script Writing
Contest to April 17, 2022.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>About other details of the competition, please click this link: </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;"><a href="https://win-zimbabwe.blogspot.com/2022/01/jacwin-start-new-year-with-competition.html" target="_blank">WIN/JAC WRITING CONTEST (2<sup>nd</sup> Edition)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Get
registered, participate and win!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
register, contact us <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">+263
774548466<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For
more information about the competition, contact </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="mailto:writers@jacfilmschool.com"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">writers@jacfilmschool.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #800180;">THE INTERVIEW
WITH MABASA</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuyElQvVDDLyRZesp2W3h5LW_0Tor-wsDfhw2XcFzFwJ25MNRYO7astfY1rMLgEdGjiZHuRqJWl1YoF4-Uv9t8YQpYwVRkpOdMBaJWtkU_29zoU5TSIPs3uinXGJ5HgrTW-ubV1TL9P__9M-Tvqg-Jk23xjGikRNOHR9LISKiCLtqS40DJFtmKN2j/s667/mabasa.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="667" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuyElQvVDDLyRZesp2W3h5LW_0Tor-wsDfhw2XcFzFwJ25MNRYO7astfY1rMLgEdGjiZHuRqJWl1YoF4-Uv9t8YQpYwVRkpOdMBaJWtkU_29zoU5TSIPs3uinXGJ5HgrTW-ubV1TL9P__9M-Tvqg-Jk23xjGikRNOHR9LISKiCLtqS40DJFtmKN2j/w400-h300/mabasa.JPG" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Ignatius T Mabasa</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have efforts to support budding writers by the
Writers International Network, but it needs organised support from those
ministries charged with arts and culture. A nation that does not invest in
telling its own stories will soon become colonised because cultural productions
are not just a type of ideology, but hegemony as well. Besides de-colonisation,
we need to have a de-westernisation project at a national level.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read Full Interview <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://munyori.org/2022/04/interview-with-ignatius-mabasa/" target="_blank">Click Here</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">NOVELIST BRYONY RHEAM
<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">ON WINNING PATH</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Beaven Tapureta</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHGAHChfaGXHyER3uWYg-Eko6x2_W5kDTgajudNB-9Ckmc3csjlyvuvt1xqJbMM8JxQhVRkQoBCQejNglfmtioUApVP-tk_92iw6TTFZQX49KsetRxQpNscFdck5Fyaq8JgAXTYiDymo2PbeIxkB9FbgGwC-FPnj9jnr7LVqXy-nNCZt3Ia7du6S7/s768/bryony%20rheam%20with%20nama%20award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="558" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHGAHChfaGXHyER3uWYg-Eko6x2_W5kDTgajudNB-9Ckmc3csjlyvuvt1xqJbMM8JxQhVRkQoBCQejNglfmtioUApVP-tk_92iw6TTFZQX49KsetRxQpNscFdck5Fyaq8JgAXTYiDymo2PbeIxkB9FbgGwC-FPnj9jnr7LVqXy-nNCZt3Ia7du6S7/w291-h400/bryony%20rheam%20with%20nama%20award.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Bryony Rheam shows
her recent accolade from the 2022 NAMA Awards. Her second novel </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">All Come To Dust</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> won the Outstanding
Fiction Book award.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">EVERY writer dreams of success
and success usually happens when one commits him/herself to art. Many writers
have fallen by the wayside after their books failed them. No sales, no
recognition, no reviews. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">But while winning
matters, one has to consider working hard with a heart of faith. Writing is an
act of faith, so said someone. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">For Bryony Rheam,
recognition gauges the reader response for a book. And when a book keeps on
winning, she says it shows that readers are connecting with the themes
tackled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">After her debut
novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This September Sun</i> (2009,
AmaBooks) won the Best First Book at the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association
Awards in 2010, she was in 2014 winner of the International ‘Write Your Own
Christie’ Competition, a competition dedicated to the international writer
Agatha Christie whom Bryony has put on top of her favourite writers list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">“I have been an Agatha
Christie fan for a very long time. I enjoy the books because the focus is on
the mystery, not the murder. I like solving the puzzle. Modern crime writers
focus more on the murder and enjoy lots of gory details, but the actual mystery
is not that exciting,” said Bryony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">This
September Sun </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">went
on to be selected as set text for ZIMSEC Advanced Level Literature in English
in Zimbabwe from 2012 to 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">WIN once published a
comment by a literature student who said she remembers one day her teacher shed
tears while reading to the class a touching passage in the novel. Indeed, such
is the power of Bryony’s words as a story-teller.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfX8u3W2b7NKzYjRlsdIijcen6eh1LuRCTbxdwQXQiC2Cvc_teXh90gFXgkq5mmq6auH7bIyk_pFxIl1atnP936KrzDW_e5OGf0sGT1XAeOtNRud66LEFfyoYj_ju00vmqvrqkFoNkk_ULOADs0HF2XwDWqK66fGWW468hcHh4wS4j-r6MtglTb1ir/s260/cover%20of%20ALL%20COME%20TO%20DUST.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="194" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfX8u3W2b7NKzYjRlsdIijcen6eh1LuRCTbxdwQXQiC2Cvc_teXh90gFXgkq5mmq6auH7bIyk_pFxIl1atnP936KrzDW_e5OGf0sGT1XAeOtNRud66LEFfyoYj_ju00vmqvrqkFoNkk_ULOADs0HF2XwDWqK66fGWW468hcHh4wS4j-r6MtglTb1ir/w298-h400/cover%20of%20ALL%20COME%20TO%20DUST.jpg" width="298" /></a></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />All
Come To Dust</i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">
(2020, AmaBooks), her second and recent novel, has joined the winning streak. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Late last year it
scooped a literary award at the Bulawayo Arts Awards and this February it won
the Outstanding Fiction Award at the NAMA Awards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Bryony told WIN how
she feels about the overall success of her books. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">“I feel both my
novels have been successful, especially in Zimbabwe. Their success shows that
readers are connecting with the issues they raise,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">All
Come To Dust</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">
is a crime thriller, falling in the class of another African novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Five Nights Before The Summit</i> (2019,
Weaver Press) by USA-based Zambian author Mukuka Chipanta. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">There seems to be an
attempt by writers to fill in the gap of crime fiction in English. For example,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sinister Motive</i> by South Africa-based
Zimbabwean emerging writer Wellington Mudhluri also uses the crime fiction
genre which was once popular with Shona novelists of yore. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">However, the use of
various genres by Zimbabwean writers to speak about local issues is what Bryony
applauds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">“I feel there is a
need for Zimbabwean writers to explore different genres and use them as ways to
reflect life in this country,” said Bryony.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Her words confirm
what renowned writer NoViolet Bulawayo said last month in The New York Times:
“We have to insist on imagining the worlds that we want to see.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NoViolet was speaking about her new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glory</i> which one critic described as ‘a
modern African <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Animal Farm’</i>, meaning
it explores a different ‘Animal Farm approach’ to highlight certain issues
affecting Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Truly, by using the
imagination and exploring various forms of writing, writers can deal with
issues troubling our motherland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">(Read
an interview with Bryony published in our previous issue, <b><a href="https://win-zimbabwe.blogspot.com/2021/05/win-newsletter-vol-2-issue-no-18.html" target="_blank">DOWN MEMORY LANE </a></b>)</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #800180;"><b style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">GLORY</span></i></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: REFLECTIONS ON AN
INSPIRED READING</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Emmanuel Sigauke
(USA)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSLTH33WS_swt3fPpLuu-uVh2cPgDRDFo2xSx4smZGWTLLnUe9u2s4wxMVoxEhcYh5udCDxiO7ORKcpmAVz9GrzZ045SOsDeqP_NLW3kflcXmObYegaRRT0jqilu8rByE04njg-cK8VZWIs5fhnnAmxeSad6miVoDYZ4cPSIkY4Zqyt8xAWOJgKsS/s355/noviolet.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="263" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSLTH33WS_swt3fPpLuu-uVh2cPgDRDFo2xSx4smZGWTLLnUe9u2s4wxMVoxEhcYh5udCDxiO7ORKcpmAVz9GrzZ045SOsDeqP_NLW3kflcXmObYegaRRT0jqilu8rByE04njg-cK8VZWIs5fhnnAmxeSad6miVoDYZ4cPSIkY4Zqyt8xAWOJgKsS/w296-h400/noviolet.JPG" width="296" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">NoViolet Bulawayo</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">WHEN NOVIOLET BULAWAYO’S <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We Need New Names</i> was launched in San
Francisco, California, back in 2013, I was there, and I remember being proud
that she had made it again (after having recently won the Caine Prize for
African Writing). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fetPmger7npao9UuI5ElV7cNa6SUKjMkPBetlknE61t1qpJkeA7ewsHICrdRT3fIMhxBUyt98zEv94igYHafpFh75kJ_K9JNk2iZXvizEIOD4HgDOycXqS7MaleKDtNOveNcBdhTOZ0DWIvbW5n6E7tJR4wO0DA3FijF3X-TjCexXf66l6FCiEgg/s226/cover%20of%20Glory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="226" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fetPmger7npao9UuI5ElV7cNa6SUKjMkPBetlknE61t1qpJkeA7ewsHICrdRT3fIMhxBUyt98zEv94igYHafpFh75kJ_K9JNk2iZXvizEIOD4HgDOycXqS7MaleKDtNOveNcBdhTOZ0DWIvbW5n6E7tJR4wO0DA3FijF3X-TjCexXf66l6FCiEgg/w400-h395/cover%20of%20Glory.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When <i>Glory</i> was virtually launched in
California, an event co-hosted by a Los Angeles and a San Francisco bookstore,
I was there, holding a conversation with the author; we were introduced as two
California-based Zimbabwean writers chatting in front of a virtual audience. For both of us, this was a good moment for
Zimbabwean literature, and for the new novel. The author had requested that the
dialogue be moderated by a Zimbabwean to allow for an insider perspective of
issues covered in the novel. I agreed with that approach. As it turned out, the
conversation, occasionally interrupted by jealous technology glitches,
organically focused on some of key issues of the novel. We didn’t cover
everything (it’s impossible and inadvisable to do so), but we touched on issues
that truly resonated with me.</span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Glory</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"> is a courageously
written book, presenting a thinly veiled story of post-coup Zimbabwe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While set in Jidada and populated by animal
characters, the book does not shy away from the specifics of a Zimbabwe most of
us know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a layer of the novel
that will only communicate with Zimbabweans home and abroad, in a specific,
intentional way, while still affording other readers who know little or nothing
about Zimbabwe ( I mean “Jidada, with a da and another da”) the ability to
settle into the story fully. But even for the Zimbabwean reader who starts with
a specific context, the reading experience will lift itself to another level,
where the story will unfold with a clear sense of originality and nuance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The book has
everything for everyone. If you come to it looking for allegory, there will be
plenty of it. If you are looking for satire, plenty too. If you are looking for
the unflinching narrative gaze we saw in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We
Need New Names</i>, you will find that dozen-fold. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">For you writers who
want to stretch the limits of creativity, come witness a fellow writer creating
dangerously. For those trying to match the details of the fictional work with
the known events since Jidada’s New Dispensation, you will get your fill and
will have fun doing so, until you decide not to distract yourself from this
story, or more appropriately, these stories unfolding in front of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Curious about the
book’s narrator, how she sounds, who she reminds you of? You will witness a
narrator who has the freedom to tell the story the way she wants, remixing
poetry and folklore, satire and humor. Come see what the author is able to get
away with. After this book, you will silence the editor in you and create the
way you want. But such a risk requires being thorough in creating consistency
of craft, while being prepared to break the narrative’s own rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">I found that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glory</i> teaches its reader to read it, and
it challenges and rewards you the whole way to the end. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">After I had my fill
of allegory, satire, narrative drive, craft, I settled on history. Although the
book is set in 2017 Zimbabwe, it swings back and forth in time, capturing many
moments in the country’s pre- and post-independence history and calls our
attention to key female revolutionaries often overlooked by historians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are the obvious heroes of Zimbabwe’s
past, dating back to colonial resistance, down to the fathers of the nation,
invoking Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, and others, to the players in the New
Dispensation, who are thoroughly satirized in this novel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Since finishing the
book, I have gotten serious about reading Zimbabwean history, especially
aspects of it that I was not taught in school. I discovered Queen Lozikeyi,
wife of Lobengula who helped lead the first Chimurenga in Matebeleland. I liked
what the author does with the women of the revolution, Nehanda, Lozikeyi and
the Sisterhood of the Disappeared. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In a township named
Lozikeyi, there is a Nehanda tree whose fruits are bones, which rain when
things are not going well for the citizens of Jidada, when the children of the
land are suffering under the hands of the Seat of Power. I found this unity of
Nehanda and Lozikeyi quite symbolic, reminding us of the unity that should exist
between all of the residents of Jidada: Shonamals, Ndebelemals, Kalangamals,
Vendamals, and other cultural groups in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In fact, the true
revolution that serves Jidada happens in a liminal space that connects
important characters like Lozikeyi and Nehanda, where the residents’ diversity
is a microcosm of the diversity of Jidada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In my conversation
with NoViolet Bulawayo at the virtual book launch, we left out many things
unsaid, but we agreed that this book, as much as it covers the 21st century
problems of Jidada, is a global story chronicling and critiquing the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>injustices happening to animals all over the
world. The Jidada animals, like animals elsewhere in the world own smartphones
and other devices that enable them to follow events happening in other
countries through social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Glory</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"> is a book that will
enchant with what’s on the surface a familiar story whose concentric layers
will demand your attention to the very end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">ZIM WRITERS AMONG WINDHAM-CAMPBELL
PRIZE WINNERS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Congratulations!</span><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">DR CHARLES MUNGOSHI
REMEMBERED</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzE0fg6oyLJaul4WbkNAIMNPZ1A-JXQ-Z2pInTwtTQ6APB73CcLYkGqn2HqR30FLXqr7oPWECyQ4I5aSCb2DpNGNVAx4dZwoCKZCkzjU-shieYCiOu_yp0A6o7MtbNPc_NnbmiJ9xQR_g2kU4FQ8OJRdN3qLN9ARm2gND57rZQ0Bxb0RJ3ahsUTTT/s908/dr%20charles%20mungoshi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzE0fg6oyLJaul4WbkNAIMNPZ1A-JXQ-Z2pInTwtTQ6APB73CcLYkGqn2HqR30FLXqr7oPWECyQ4I5aSCb2DpNGNVAx4dZwoCKZCkzjU-shieYCiOu_yp0A6o7MtbNPc_NnbmiJ9xQR_g2kU4FQ8OJRdN3qLN9ARm2gND57rZQ0Bxb0RJ3ahsUTTT/w352-h640/dr%20charles%20mungoshi.jpg" width="352" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">The late great
writer Dr Charles Mungoshi</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify;">ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022, writing
friends, relatives and fans of the late great writer Dr Charles Mungoshi
gathered in Houghton Park to commemorate his life and works. Some images below
were taken from the event and used here courtesy of Farai Mungoshi.</span></p>
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lonely people</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wave
to other people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">from
high balconies.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">-Charles
Mungoshi (from the poem ‘The Lonely People’ in <i>The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk</i>, Baobab Books, 1998)</span></b></p>
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Mungoshi, Professor Mandivamba Rukuni (Chairman of the Charles and Jesesi
Mungoshi Foundation) and comedian Admire Kuzhangaira <i>aka</i> Bhutisi who did a rendition of Mungoshi's poem 'Dotito Is Our Brother' on the night.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDn2I7ZQVHztotZQxzQCYOgOVIw87tDr5IwONP-tQ7Nu7G0qx1OZR9lrojXqRa93f8UYwRQ7iXmkCCH1WLl6bvr_Atz2WmHqh8cJRhdNTtEIZEaq2o_cxRF5TNleYBWc2gO23Yk551QqadhhnDYQqZRDGrpz79Fs1qxbt1JJE0KrBfYfuIlB0iJ-s/s912/jesesi%20mungoshi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDn2I7ZQVHztotZQxzQCYOgOVIw87tDr5IwONP-tQ7Nu7G0qx1OZR9lrojXqRa93f8UYwRQ7iXmkCCH1WLl6bvr_Atz2WmHqh8cJRhdNTtEIZEaq2o_cxRF5TNleYBWc2gO23Yk551QqadhhnDYQqZRDGrpz79Fs1qxbt1JJE0KrBfYfuIlB0iJ-s/w300-h400/jesesi%20mungoshi.jpg" width="300" /></a></p><div><br /></div><br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">POET CATHERINE FORMS
ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTHS</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Beaven Tapureta</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZH9M0Q7RJPhpwjruDnTZ8fg7NAx99b1bgX4QrPfXpAyhCF16ohjVr2GJilEDUngm63zjI1ONCMLlpjBJWf6nc6EK1n3-NMubMPrlM71SqSs54bfAP_tmIFi3Fk6zv4pm3_8D--RcnHJFsvZG8a-277D0kUJHMscBun8mqpaRbnbk_-xc0DsLe4V3l/s773/cathy1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="587" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZH9M0Q7RJPhpwjruDnTZ8fg7NAx99b1bgX4QrPfXpAyhCF16ohjVr2GJilEDUngm63zjI1ONCMLlpjBJWf6nc6EK1n3-NMubMPrlM71SqSs54bfAP_tmIFi3Fk6zv4pm3_8D--RcnHJFsvZG8a-277D0kUJHMscBun8mqpaRbnbk_-xc0DsLe4V3l/w304-h400/cathy1.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Award-winning poet
Catherine Magodo-Mutukwa</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify;">AWARD-WINNING POET Catherine
Magodo-Mutukwa has launched an organization called Rootz Foundation that will
work with children and youths to ensure that they enjoy their “fundamental
rights to reach their full potential”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not new in poetry
circles, Catherine has been writing and publishing poetry but with an
inclination towards the fight for women’s rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Now her new
organization is designed to feed equilibrium into the poet’s gender activism as
it will also involve the ‘neglected boy child’ and related issues such as drug
abuse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">It is also stated in
Rootz Foundation constitution that it will “educate, mentor and equip the boy
child with knowledge that will make him a better man”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an interview, Catherine said, “Yes, my
poetry in the past spoke for women and girls but I have since realized that in
order to solve most of the problems women face we have to go back to the root
cause. Not necessarily meaning that men are the root cause but to a larger
extent I feel that our boys have been neglected in the process of empowering
our girls, it seems they have lost their sense of value and expectations. Angry
boys are being brought up in mostly dysfunctional homes where the father who is
supposed to lead by example is either present but emotionally unavailable or
just absent totally. So I thought if I can come up with something that will
help bridge the widening gap between the empowered girl child and the seemingly
neglected boy child it might just help eradicate the social problems we see
today like gender based violence, drug abuse etc.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">And this
irresponsible fatherhood, she added, creates a bad environment for the girl who
will be affected emotionally, mentally, physically and even spiritually. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">She said she is not
abandoning poetry as it is part of her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">“Poetry is a part of me and so
as it has been always, it will surely play a large role in this fight to make
our Country better and the whole world over,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">To ensure she
fulfills the objectives of her organization Catherine is strongly backed by her
husband Tawanda Mutukwa and a team of Board members greatly experienced in
relevant different fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Apart from advocacy
work, the poet said her organization will also provide counselling and
guidance, organize training workshops on various thematic areas including
reproductive health to empower children and youths.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Her major works
include a novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broken Vessel</i>, which
was adapted into film because of its strong stance against </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">sexual
abuse of the girl child. Few years ago she won an African Literature Award at
the IBHUKU Women Authors Exhibition Festival held in South Africa. The award
was in recognition of her writings which fight against violation of women’s
rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Catherine’s name
features in various publications (individual and collaborative anthologies)
such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back to the Hills </i>(2011), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We Are One</i> (2013, Diaspora Publishers), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reflection</i> (2014) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silent Cries: The Violated Speak</i> (2015),
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rendition of the Soul</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">WE LOVE YOU<i> MAMA</i> GWETAI</span></span></b></p>
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(left) with filmmaker Mrs Priscilla Sithole Ncube at the Bulawayo Arts Awards last year.</span></p>
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shortlisted in the literary category at the Bulawayo Arts Awards</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Don’t
miss the book review in our next issue!</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">YOUNG WRITERS NEED TO
BE ENCOURAGED<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_g7mcT6ShrccEKv_phljQn2xFLr7ZfnxsVScTkHyJ8KxnTQ0GbEXMbSxIoQPRNQqagvf0lPV6OSAoFHA1KjHodwm7X3jf1TVEy8A8jpN7B3DzOhb8YEpSXh7Hoa583eRaNpH7IAWeSRki1vp86YL4ZWI16X-Bm2avW7H4hkU2zUZV1JwRVx1lN-3/s360/cindy%20usayi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_g7mcT6ShrccEKv_phljQn2xFLr7ZfnxsVScTkHyJ8KxnTQ0GbEXMbSxIoQPRNQqagvf0lPV6OSAoFHA1KjHodwm7X3jf1TVEy8A8jpN7B3DzOhb8YEpSXh7Hoa583eRaNpH7IAWeSRki1vp86YL4ZWI16X-Bm2avW7H4hkU2zUZV1JwRVx1lN-3/w334-h400/cindy%20usayi.jpg" width="334" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Follow this Facebook
link to watch and enjoy the powerful presentation by Arundel School student and author of <i>Dreams Under The Noonday Sun</i>, Nothando Cindy Usayi.</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">EPWORTH YOUNG READER
A STAR CRITIC IN THE MAKING</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Winzim Online</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidInDuDAOV9DOw6Z0nEkdEY32Tt1Bkpg2IXyCYJQeaaIorLlLZ-H7gqVJbLhyjQ8s5eAAsN2FSWZw08WXHXIsNmhMDNp5kq2zVUEmN_y2E6NthsoQS0cGPQxKvTDVq_Dx5KdLj3tCFVaFqFi_MgNGHJaAmvVe-N1QzNfaFf17iYAFc7fOzGd6tkDWF/s768/courage%20mlambo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="574" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidInDuDAOV9DOw6Z0nEkdEY32Tt1Bkpg2IXyCYJQeaaIorLlLZ-H7gqVJbLhyjQ8s5eAAsN2FSWZw08WXHXIsNmhMDNp5kq2zVUEmN_y2E6NthsoQS0cGPQxKvTDVq_Dx5KdLj3tCFVaFqFi_MgNGHJaAmvVe-N1QzNfaFf17iYAFc7fOzGd6tkDWF/s320/courage%20mlambo.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Courage Mlambo</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">SOON AFTER Costa ‘Mudhara
Sinyoro’ Shizha (60) appeared in the <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/shizhas-love-for-books-testimony-to-undying-reading-appetite/" target="_blank">Herald</a> and <a href="http://munyori.org/2021/09/outstanding-reading-spirit/" target="_blank">Munyori Literary Journal</a> in September last year, featured for his exemplary love for books, he went on a
voluntary charge especially in Epworth to spread the good news about reading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">An awareness of
books is growing among the youths and one of them, Courage Mlambo (19), has
become a regular borrower of books and mentee at the WIN director’s residence
in the same area of Epworth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">All credit goes to
Mudhara Sinyoro who referred Courage and keeps referring others to WIN. To
date, Courage has read more than ten different books from the WIN director’s
library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The young bookworm
has been compliant with his mentor’s strict exercises which include reading the
book twice or thrice before honestly analysing it or putting together
observations into a brief review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Hanging on the
bookshelf in the director’s home office is Courage’s batch of handwritten
analyses of the books he has read.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">This exercise has
been exciting for both mentor and mentee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Born in 2003 in
Epworth, Courage went to Epworth Primary School and then Matthew Rusike College
for his secondary education. At the college, he got involved in the public
speaking/ debate club, and spent his spare time in the library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Although there were
no books by African writers in the college’s library, he says just the act of
reading expanded his consciousness. The librarian, Sister Ivy, became familiar
with Courage’s growing avidity for books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Asked how the
current mentorship with WIN director has benefitted him so far, Courage said,
“It has helped increase my knowledge because my mentor Mr Tapureta tests me by
giving me different types of books, even magazines. Through reading, my understanding
of language and certain issues has been boosted. I also have realized that even
though I had other hobbies, these hobbies are now drawing their energy from my
reading habit. That means a great motivation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Of all the books he
has read so far, Courage picked out three as his favourites or which he enjoyed
most. These are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life On The Wing</i>
(2016, Booklove Publishers) by Ratidzo Zinyama, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harvest of Thorns</i> (1989, Baobab Books) by Shimmer Chinodya and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Five Nights Before The Summit</i> (2019,
Weaver Press) by Mukuka Chipanta.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">To his peers,
Courage says, “Be focused. If you have a desire for books, just follow it. You
will actually in the future grab the prize of reading. As for me, I am still on
the way, reading.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">2021 IN RETROSPECT</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Edwin Msipa aka Black Mampara</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">ALTHOUGH 2021 was COVID 19-ridden,
Zimbabwe's literary arts exponents never disappointed. True to the old adage ‘make
hay while the sun shines’, they kept the pen and their minds in motion
throughout this tough year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Indeed, just like
the message in celebrated Zimbabwean musician Jah Prayzah's<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>song, 'Hello' which urges people not to procrastinate,
the literary sons and daughters of Dzimbahwe enlightened the year 2021 with
lots of books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">One such book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life and Legacy of Zimbabwe's First
Black Advocate and Patriotic Freedom Fighter </i>written by<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Elias Chipadze<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Machemedze
caught the eye of The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, His Excellency,
Cde E.D. Mnangagwa who then led by example by officiating as the Esteemed Guest
of Honour at the launch of this well-researched biographical book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The book is based on
the life history of one of Zimbabwe's gallant sons, national hero Cde Herbert
Wiltshire Chitepo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The launch happened
on the 7th of May at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe(NGZ) in Harare. In his
encouraging speech, President E.D Mnangagwa had this to say, "As such, I
am humbled that already there are young writers like Mr Elias Chipadze
Machemedze who have taken it upon themselves to research and document our
history. Machemedze's efforts that resulted in this biographical book of note
on Chairman Chitepo that we are launching today should not only be highly
regarded, but should also be encouraged among our youthful creatives."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Indeed, the
President seemed to have foreseen the immediate future's results in the arts
circles: a barrage of exciting literary works oozed out of publishing houses
like fast moving bullet trains coming out of a tunnel on a busy day. A lot of
young writers came out of their shells. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The ‘teething’,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>young primary school learner, Onald Gwiriri,
shone with his debut children’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Cursing Tortoise (2021)</i> which made history by winning the 'Outstanding
Children's Book award this year. By this feat, Onald Gwiriri became the
youngest author to bag a NAMA award, a great unmatchable feat it was!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The wheel kept on
turning. The humble and charming Kuwadzana-based writer and publisher Prosper
'The Birthday boy' Njeke, founder of Proscripts Publishers, published 'Muri
Mahedheni' which he co-authored with Joseph Marayo. It is an exciting Shona
novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Njeke also
co-published an academic book with Edwin Nkonjera titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chikwaturo Chebvunzo,</i> and another Shona poetry anthology with other
writers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Farai Manguvo and
Oscar Gwiriri weighed in with four books each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another high profile personality, Deputy Minister of Youth, Arts Sport
and Indigenization, Honourable Tino<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>'Tintin' Machakaire launched of his book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moyo Inzenza</i> in Glen View, Harare. The Minister urged writers to
use their local languages so as to promote them - a duty which the now defunct
Literature Bureau and the Government of Zimbabwe has been trying to push since
independence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Economist Eddie
Graham Cross came on stage with a 153-paged, thirty chapters long book titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Life Of Sacrifice</i>, an authorised
biography of His Excellency Cde E.D. Mnangagwa. It tells the life history of
the President of Zimbabwe from childhood to his position now as leader of
Zimbabwe. The book was launched on the 15th of August 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Tracy Masocha,
better known as Matshuma, headlined the foreign contingent of Zimbabwean
writers with a gem of a non-fictional book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
Defence of Children (Prevention of Child Abuse), </i>which highlights the
plight of abused children. Based in Mzansi, Masocha fervently speaks on behalf
of tormented children and at the same time tries to offer preventive measures
to fight off all the forms of child abuse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Memories were
revived of the great Literature Bureau's 1980’s 'Book Boom' period when editors
like Stanley Nyamfukudza and others had an uphill task of making sure that the
locals' literary works get exposure. This was a period loaded with great
unmatchable talent such as Dambudzo Marechera, Charles Mungoshi, Tsitsi
Dangarembga, Stanley Nyamfukudza himself, Virginia Phiri, Barbara Makhalisa Nkala.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Echoes of the ‘Book
Boom’ period returned in 2021 although a lot still needs to be done in terms of
quality. Many a time literary arts analysts' clarion call is clear: Read
widely, write, self-edit your work, give the work to credible editors, pay for
the service, get quality printers and put correct font sizes appropriate to the
reader's level and market the final product<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with vibrancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Renowned editor,
poet, actor and award-winning journalist Tinashe Bob Muchuri who published a
gem of a children's book entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Auntie
Mazvita</i> in 2021 had this to say about quality, "A lot of books were
published in 2021 but most of them are half-baked cakes especially when you
look at how they are organized."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Muchuri however,
noted that not all apples in the literary bags were bad. "We have had
outstanding writers with some penning and publishing three or more books."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Poet, book reviewer
and newspaper columnist Lazarus Sauti also concurred with Muchuri's observation.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">"The writers should
invest in manuscript assessment, editing, proofreading, cover design, printing
and binding. It’s high time we should value professionalism and quality rather
than half-baked books,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Vibrant Norton-based
publisher, Aleck Kaposa added his sentiments, "We had a fair share of good
stories, well-written<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and amazing but at
the same time some books betrayed the fact that they were first drafts and
lacked thorough rewriting, and hence the editing was laborious. Some were
unnecessarily long, rambling and wordy. Good writers use KISS: Keep It Short
and Sharp."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">He also noted that
writers need to read widely so as to be enlightened."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">One of the long
standing living heroes in the book sector, writer and arts guru Aaron Chiundura
Moyo believes there is a lot which needs to be done in terms of supporting the
arts industry especially during this COVID 19 period when most artists are not
active.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Faced with this kind
of a scenario, young writers have a daunting task of not rushing their works so
that the best comes out by letting their art works pass through all the steps
without skipping one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">It would sound unfair
to sign out without mentioning great works by Marabi musician Kireni Zulu who
hails from writer and publisher Daimon Phiri's rising stable. Kireni's pen
danced twice in 2021 and produced two beautiful pieces: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mhosva Haiori</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chisi
Hachieri Musi Wacharimwa</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Also not to be
outdone was Thobekile Mhlanga. Her English-Shona-Ndebele workbook is quite
interesting to all who intend to learn these exciting languages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">As usual, lyrical
poetess Batsirai E. Chigama never disappointed. Ruth Tsopotsa and Kwanele
Khumalo shone too with their resplendence in pure word play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Nakie Michie, an
online novels writer reminded writers that one can make a living through the
literary arts way in this new digital era. In one of her radio interviews last
year, Nakie confirmed that online publishing can be a source of living for a
writer. And she is a shining example!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">There are more books
published last year which are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not
mentioned here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">SO YOU WANNA WRITE?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Beaven Tapureta</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpS9WqmFPL7EqPSQmUQn5M13I6e5yhYw7mHDHQuJxT-rOXdLghEGKKYYbZ82P2lub7gjpjU9tcF2BoF2ket5PKVkjk8ibKKw4yGLXpMyCYqr8ozXjoQVD_jwDE3ctGiRixEt_J5y27LAwaszO-kciHzEvYLRuRADeYtBE7hXIvjyBvH-xALJ-gxXn-/s1080/sympathy%20sibanda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpS9WqmFPL7EqPSQmUQn5M13I6e5yhYw7mHDHQuJxT-rOXdLghEGKKYYbZ82P2lub7gjpjU9tcF2BoF2ket5PKVkjk8ibKKw4yGLXpMyCYqr8ozXjoQVD_jwDE3ctGiRixEt_J5y27LAwaszO-kciHzEvYLRuRADeYtBE7hXIvjyBvH-xALJ-gxXn-/w266-h400/sympathy%20sibanda.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Writer, humanitarian
and entrepreneur Sympathy Sibanda</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WMM89nLXC_9dHdHfMgrtYvwVCS3vUJZdnS9qThg8h1kwNcYsdos0Lqva6B-4zJA5CMR46IcdgcuCKQQQVY3XIarK4FkkoGVhQ9npIM0QTJvBhZc3Iuy4YZOu0Cii59cWz5xlWSUY5ePHfp7FUn1stL5omztTbR9sr86TImd5H901X_eZ7nkWVJSt/s768/cover%20of%20SO%20YOU%20WANNA%20WRITE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="603" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WMM89nLXC_9dHdHfMgrtYvwVCS3vUJZdnS9qThg8h1kwNcYsdos0Lqva6B-4zJA5CMR46IcdgcuCKQQQVY3XIarK4FkkoGVhQ9npIM0QTJvBhZc3Iuy4YZOu0Cii59cWz5xlWSUY5ePHfp7FUn1stL5omztTbR9sr86TImd5H901X_eZ7nkWVJSt/w314-h400/cover%20of%20SO%20YOU%20WANNA%20WRITE.jpg" width="314" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">‘SO
YOU WANNA WRITE: SPREADING THE MESSAGE’ </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify;"> is a helpful, 30-paged free e-book put
together by poet, humanitarian and entrepreneur Sympathy Sibanda to help
beginning writers learn the general writing and publishing process.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Eight concise
chapters make up this important book in which the author incorporates her
personal experiences since the age of nine when she already had drafts of poems
and stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">The opening chapter
‘Who Can Publish A Book?’ underscores the importance of recording ideas on
paper either as an individual or institution. Sibanda decries the loss of
institutional memory caused by the absence of a research and documentation
department in any organization. Even individuals, they need to write down their
ideas in any form that preserves memory, for this will in turn inspire future
generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In the second
Chapter ‘So You Wanna Write?’ she says although one has to first make it clear
what theme one is tackling, genre to be used and researches to be done, above
all this one needs dedication and persistence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Writing involves the
physique as well. In the chapter ‘Ink To Paper’ she provides the tips to help a
writer enjoy his/her job of actual writing, such tips as drinking water or
juice between intervals, giving oneself enough time to sleep, or taking the
time out to go out to breathe the fresh air and absorb the natural environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When the first draft
is completed, the onus is upon the writer to do the first editing. This is
explained in the chapter ‘Remove The Dirt’. In the same chapter she also
explains the job of an outside or consulted editor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">This small e-book is
enlightening, with more chapters such Chapters that deal with issues budding
writers have to be wary of after they are sure the manuscript is complete and
edited include ‘Beauty Smells Good’ which sheds light on the value of book
designing, ‘Books Got DNA Too’ which explains why the ISBN or EAN is important,
‘Author Photo Is A Big Deal’, ‘Blurb: What’s That Word?’ and ‘Self-Publishing
Versus Indie Publishing’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Sympathy is the
author of a poetry collection titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Matters
Of Life. She is also </i>an award winning entrepreneur, humanitarian and
celebrity ghost-writer. Her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>company that
offers book consultancy services (ghost-writing, editing and publishing) to
people from all walks of life. They have worked with politicians, business
personnel, Pastors, students among many others. They encourage people to
document experiences for the sake of telling authentic stories and building
legacies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">THE YOUTH PERSPECTIVE</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXBjMS6ovxG_V7-BgWu9tKAmGI4ZN-opoGmvjEtiImbnKPFZvsJ74rNzAj8WIpVVMlkIELVk4MTKQySk3tmYW-xDvNetiSc2DznBdVsUVkm8la9rFivYuy_0MiZ4t9j3Zhx1Bm2CvGYPm0Vm2A2ynRy2z0cvkfv-JC-jtTawiKrhMXHj6aDA4LV10/s1024/IMG-20220325-WA0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="683" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXBjMS6ovxG_V7-BgWu9tKAmGI4ZN-opoGmvjEtiImbnKPFZvsJ74rNzAj8WIpVVMlkIELVk4MTKQySk3tmYW-xDvNetiSc2DznBdVsUVkm8la9rFivYuy_0MiZ4t9j3Zhx1Bm2CvGYPm0Vm2A2ynRy2z0cvkfv-JC-jtTawiKrhMXHj6aDA4LV10/w266-h400/IMG-20220325-WA0010.jpg" width="266" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Mimi Machakaire</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It’s 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">It’s 2022 and we all had our resolutions as
the year began. We are now 4 months into the year and what have you
accomplished? Yes, some may say they have accomplished a lot and others, for
some reason, some things haven’t so far worked out the way they planned. Is there
any reason to give up or any motivation to keep going?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As
writers, we have our goals that we want to accomplish. There are those who say
they want to see returns from their work, whatever it maybe and there are those
who simply want to get published on whatever platform they find, whether they
are paid or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you have to think
for yourself and ask what are you doing or what have you accomplished within
these months that have already passed? What do you want out of life and how are
you going to work towards it? There are steps one can take to achieve this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">5 Ways to Understand What Is Manifesting
and How to Use It</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">So how do we get the things that we want?
Well through hard work, prayer and manifesting, all is possible. This means
putting in all the good energy out into the world, having a positive mindset
and working towards your goals in a step-by-step fashion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Now
you may ask yourself what is manifesting. For those who don’t know, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">manifesting
is based on the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="https://thriveglobal.com/stories/what-is-the-law-of-attraction-how-to-make-it-work-for-you/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">"law of attraction"</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
or the idea that you get what you put out into the world. Ever had a relative
tell you when you were younger, "You'll attract more flies with honey than
vinegar"? It's kind of like that.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Manifesting
is all about using your thought patterns, mindset, and self-beliefs to attract
what you want most.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your
thoughts and beliefs have immense power to shape your reality. If you have a
negative outlook, or focus on the obstacles, the way you think can hold you
back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
the other hand, if you shift the way you think towards being more positive and
proactive, it can help move you forward in seriously incredible ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;">Give
manifesting a try if...</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
have a goal that you're motivated to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You've
felt stuck when trying to meet your goals in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You're
ready to adopt a more positive mindset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 46.35pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Get </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="https://www.caviarfeeling.com/post/crystals-shops-near-me/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">crystal</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> clear
on what you want to manifest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 46.35pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;">You
need to be specific on what you want to start manifesting. This doesn’t work
like:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
want to have a bigger house<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
want a new designer bag<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
want more money<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Try
creating vision boards either digitally or manually, with the exact house you
want or that <i>Chanel</i> bag you’ve always dreamt of. Often at
times, people have recommended Pinterest that can help as a source of
inspiration. Take as much time as needed to realize what you really want and
desire, make it as real as possible, so it’s almost like it’s yours already.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 46.35pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Affirm Your Goals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 46.35pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;">If
you truly want something, you need to ask for it most of the time, right? If
you want a coffee, you order it and so on, when manifesting there is not much
difference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Start
creating affirmations on what you really want and repeat them over the shower
or otherwise. When you wake up, before going to sleep, make this a habit into
your daily routine and most importantly believe in what you’re saying, it
really makes the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.
Work and Take Action</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;">Journaling
is one of the best ways to work on your goals, start step by step and don’t
overcome yourself with too much rambling detail. This is a journey that you
have to enjoy and take with ease. You can do it in the morning as you write
down how you want your day to be, don’t forget to be specific, or just before
going to sleep you can write down everything you’re grateful for; it should
become another habit to feel that confidence and motivation within yourself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.
Keep your vibes as high as possible</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;">According
to the Law of Attraction, you attract what you are sending out. So to attract
more of what you want, you just need to raise your vibration. These vibrations
will be like little signals you are continuously sending out to the universe.
You must tune your signal to a vibration worthy of receiving it; at this point,
you’ll probably start seeing results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.
Act as IF</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-indent: 28.35pt;">The
best and most powerful way to apply manifestation is: Act as if it is already
true. Act like the person you want to be. Act as if you already have everything
you want. Act as if everything you need has already been provided. When
manifesting, think yourself living in the house you want or working in the
office you want.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
few extra activities used by others that might help you on the way of creating
your dream life by manifestation are </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="https://www.caviarfeeling.com/post/best-meditation-self-care-apps-to-download-now/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">meditation</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="https://www.caviarfeeling.com/post/international-yoga-day/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">yoga</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, podcasting,
or </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="https://www.caviarfeeling.com/post/all-you-need-to-know-about-crystals-guide-for-beginners/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">crystal</span></a><a href="https://lovebonches.com/post/all-you-need-to-know-about-crystals-guide-for-beginners" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vibes.
Surround yourself of high vibes and believe you can and deserve to have
everything you want. Once you’ll be ready to do the step of trust the universe
will give you back. And this is just the start on your journey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCLUSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">In the end, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">the truth is that
the power to manifest lies within you. Whether you’re a writer, journalist,
artist, doctor or lawyer, you just have to learn how to use it. Whatever you
think about, you are manifesting into your life. If you constantly think about
what you don’t want to see happen, that is exactly what you will manifest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As
youth, we need to focus on our career goals and the life we want to build for ourselves
without sinking into negativity and other unnecessary drama. Drink water, keep
healthy, work on your dreams, mind your business and leap into a better version
of yourself than what you were yesterday. Its 2022, if your life hasn’t changed
by now, still there is time to start manifesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE IN ZIMBABWE</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As
we celebrate with 10-year old genius Onald Gwiriri who scooped the Outstanding
Children’s Book award at the NAMAs this year, we ask: why writers still seem to
be ‘slow’ to get into writing children’s literature in Zimbabwe?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8GcUt_5bCfyZoBtuyEdrvFYTQPykUrHg3jGYUQP5DFqE9acih604KDBD51KjYuQqf6fpFgnE5ai6FkJwDRVgRqY4S7SudczR3bH94FNmXYbXSdDO60Ta_ZFWiGRcqeTwOEg2NqDqtnRthPsMSndnqz64DG-3t1QWtgDROX-NygQmzYsz6qygpIyi6/s845/COVER%20OF%20CURSING%20TORTOISE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="845" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8GcUt_5bCfyZoBtuyEdrvFYTQPykUrHg3jGYUQP5DFqE9acih604KDBD51KjYuQqf6fpFgnE5ai6FkJwDRVgRqY4S7SudczR3bH94FNmXYbXSdDO60Ta_ZFWiGRcqeTwOEg2NqDqtnRthPsMSndnqz64DG-3t1QWtgDROX-NygQmzYsz6qygpIyi6/w400-h284/COVER%20OF%20CURSING%20TORTOISE.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><p></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Onald Gwiriri: History Maker </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Aleck Kaposa</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That ten-year old Onald Gwiriri’s
book, <i>The Cursing Tortoise </i>published by
Essential Books Publishing Company won a NAMA award in the Outstanding
Children’s Books Category was probably
the biggest news of this year’s edition of the prestigious awards is
undeniable. As soon as the nominees’ list was released, the young boy’s name
started making headlines in all major newspapers in Zimbabwe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although Essential Books Publishing
Company had another nominee in the same children’s books category, veteran
writer, actor and journalist Tinashe Muchuri, it was Onald on whose eyes the
media focussed. Journalists from<i> The Herald, The Sunday Mail, The Standard,
The Chronicle, NewsDay </i>and other papers, sought to interview the boy who
had suddenly become a celebrity, his parents, his publishers, his teachers and
even brothers and sisters. Towards the
awards night and soon after there were so many photoshoot sessions and
interviews. Whilst there was that visible scramble, behind the scenes there was
an unnoticed group that engaged in its
own gold rush that the media took no notice of, the scores of writers who have
trekked to our company to seal publishing deals because of our unparalled history
of half a dozen appearances at NAMA awards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Essential Books Publishing
Company is indeed proud to have contributed to the history-making feat,
publishing the youngest writer ever to win a NAMA award. We give all the glory
to the Most High God. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Children's Literature: A
Neglected Area in Zimbabwean Literature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Dr
Ignatius Mabasa</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">(Article
first appeared in the BWAZ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Writers
Scroll,</i> 2002)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibesYvCM3PBcIoVSQ0yBKpy6rqWYl9H_lfjWUuN85ZbVGgD4MAiasxi4lkFwNSxu1XbCF6WpgX8BdbVPxoghys0HvrxoYB-E0Sdf1dJ8Y7keS1nH7VSjS7Si2HPIQtXs59R7iQPK7c_gcRIgXuNwtEJ22I87j3O31u0wstmQCKCy_Ooin2zTvqUTTN/s2048/dr%20mabasa%20storytelling%20at%20the%202014%20ZIBF%20Children%20Tent.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibesYvCM3PBcIoVSQ0yBKpy6rqWYl9H_lfjWUuN85ZbVGgD4MAiasxi4lkFwNSxu1XbCF6WpgX8BdbVPxoghys0HvrxoYB-E0Sdf1dJ8Y7keS1nH7VSjS7Si2HPIQtXs59R7iQPK7c_gcRIgXuNwtEJ22I87j3O31u0wstmQCKCy_Ooin2zTvqUTTN/w400-h300/dr%20mabasa%20storytelling%20at%20the%202014%20ZIBF%20Children%20Tent.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Dr Mabasa telling a
story to children in 2014 at the ZIBF</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">(Photo: Winzim Online)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; text-align: justify;">ALMOST ALWAYS, you hear budding
writers talk of writing poetry, short stories, novels, plays, but you never
hear them mention that in these genres they are actually focusing on writing
for children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Well, maybe writers
are not to blame; maybe there is no market for children’s books in Zimbabwe.
But, that is just an excuse; writing should not be determined by the market,
especially good writing. A good writer should just tell his or her story and
worry about market and profits afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In any case, the
market is there for children’s literature in Zimbabwe; the only problem is that
we tend to think that imported foreign stories are better than ours. I think it
is time to make local publishers think otherwise. Remember those cheap-priced
Literature Bureau books we used to buy for 2 cents and 5 cents some years ago?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Writing for children
is a very interesting area which I encourage budding writers to explore.
Children need stories more than adults do, and children are better when it
comes to visualising places, characters and other things that happen in their
novels, stories, etc. That is why I always argue that it is better to tell/read
a story to a child than hiring or showing them a video where all the
characters, setting, voices, etc. are a creation of somebody. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Stories, unlike
movies, allow children to visualise and build their own characters and settings
and dress the characters the way they want. Videos do all that for children,
theirs is to just sit and absorb – the mind is not challenged to be
imaginative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Like I have already
mentioned above, it is good thing if budding writers could try to explore the
genre of children’s literature. The themes are simple and often it is easy to
have control over the story and its characters, unlike in adult works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #800180;">VOICE FROM THE
MOUNTAINS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>Clever Simbarashe
Kavenga<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><i>(Mutare)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HlVU8PTEa2-jn0yoLvu5EXE1BT5ald80QaZlAsZ94EmnhYnURCZ5MD18-zoUXpepKrWJO0trESwzhGyW805cDH5E_uUdYZO8fGfHKUtY_aHuuPGgLYp9PHiIBXIp9hl6TZWVJpgaKwiyHTy6FAKfz-zJHYa1wBU7AFojyUOqu6vZdG8xlWkGH-Ko/s720/T%20COMFORT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="720" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HlVU8PTEa2-jn0yoLvu5EXE1BT5ald80QaZlAsZ94EmnhYnURCZ5MD18-zoUXpepKrWJO0trESwzhGyW805cDH5E_uUdYZO8fGfHKUtY_aHuuPGgLYp9PHiIBXIp9hl6TZWVJpgaKwiyHTy6FAKfz-zJHYa1wBU7AFojyUOqu6vZdG8xlWkGH-Ko/w400-h389/T%20COMFORT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">Tichamupeyi Comfort
Nyandoro</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">IT IS REFRESHING to be back
online again. Greetings to you all our dear readers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In the world that we live today
it looks like it's now a dog-eat-dog situation. Yes, some would say each man
for himself but God for us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In these
bad situations the least you can expect is someone who sacrifices his or her
precious time for others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">In these shambles of
tattered hearts stars do shine. As the great minds say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the star shines brightest during the darkest hour,</i> so it comes to
be true to us as we have our own every day unsung heroes and heroines and in
the arts sector, Tichamupei Comfort Nyandoro is one of our everyday unsung
heroine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Through 2nd Street
Writes, a writer’s organization based in the city of Mutare, I got in touch with
Tichamupei Comfort Nyandoro. She is well known in the local art circles as
Teacher Comfort. Once she was a teacher but she is retired now to dedicate much
of her precious time to the arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Tichamupei has
authored a book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Women Exceed</i> published
on Amazon. She also has got Shona poems published in a number of anthologies
such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mupakwa Parwendo, Ngoma
yeDzimbahwe, Yarira Ngoma yeNhetembo, Chainga Chenduri</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nduri Upenyu.</i> Her play entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zvichatinakira</i> is her latest book
published by Progressive Book Publishers. And by the way, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mupakwa Parwendo</i> is in the current school syllabus for A’ Level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Tichamupei works
with 2nd Street Writes as its program coordinator; she has run a number of
online writing lessons to sharpen creative skills of younger and other willing
fellow writers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Teacher Comfort has a
soft spot for the children, women, and the marginalized poor people, those that
cannot stand up for themselves. Through her works she is the voice of the
voiceless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Her never-say-die
attitude has seen her art organization called ZIMPAST (Zimbabwe Performing Arts
for Schools Trust) which has partnered with 2nd Street Writes to produce radio
dramas. ZIMPAST is based in Masvingo town where Tichamupeyi currently lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Before I pen off it
would be my pleasure to say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">go on,
sister, go on thinking outside the box!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This is a great opportunity to show the world our talents. As rural artists we have been lagging behind, now it's our time to shine!" he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A unique rural writing workshop model hatched by US-based writer Prof Sigauke, Chisiya Writers' Club is also set to resume its activities which include writing workshops and contests. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chisiya will revive the Mototi Primary School writing contest which was disturbed by COVID-19 in 2020. Mototi is the school in Mazvihwa where the club founder Professor Emmanuel Sigauke discovered his writing talent. He intends to give back to his former school by launching a writing contest for Grade 6s and 7s under the theme ‘Bicycles’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"We are planning to resume the writing contest at Mototi Primary School. Initially slated for December 2020, the contest was disturbed by COVID-19. Besides giving back to a school that gave me everything, this contest is also a special dedication to the late Ronald Sigauke who loved bicycles," said Professor Sigauke.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">He added that after an informative workshop, a similar writing contest will be held at the neighboring secondary school, Gwavachemai.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I did my Secondary at Gwavachemai Secondary School, It will be great if Chisiya start with a writing Workshop at Gwavachemai and then we introduce a similar writing contest there," said Professor Sigauke.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chisiya Writers' Club is a rural writing model workshop launched in Mazvihwa in 2015. The initiative has grown over the years and it is now home to more than 500 writers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;">GET MORE NEWS IN OUR WIN LITERARY NEWSLETTER COMING THIS FEBRUARY!</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;">Thank you</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-17990739032156925882022-01-22T09:11:00.001+02:002022-01-22T09:11:24.592+02:00JAC REMEMBERS LOCAL FILM INDUSTRY<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu1r0EdvDULn9XQ29ZnmlmiFobaDHlbEnXbUH2bvB-Axl9rG5uJt2Ia5FFXEh7-Nn8NAHReowQLgjcn756ohaG0hqpN3InmbjM5RQGMiEAlEZcqrwHdaeHz3cl3yvK9hV2PM1QBc4ClasXxoaPAvr6S_wn_3xbYC51bIebd_4G9Yq0E7aFdFjTU_Tg=s598" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu1r0EdvDULn9XQ29ZnmlmiFobaDHlbEnXbUH2bvB-Axl9rG5uJt2Ia5FFXEh7-Nn8NAHReowQLgjcn756ohaG0hqpN3InmbjM5RQGMiEAlEZcqrwHdaeHz3cl3yvK9hV2PM1QBc4ClasXxoaPAvr6S_wn_3xbYC51bIebd_4G9Yq0E7aFdFjTU_Tg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jessie Allen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%;">“I
have teamed up with WIN-Zimbabwe (Writers International Network Zimbabwe) and so
far four writers have completed the course with two having directed and
completed their film and one is in post-production while the 4<sup>th</sup>
film will be filmed shortly,” she said.<o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Read
full article: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/uk-based-filmmaker-gives-back-by-helping-local-industry-grow/" target="_blank">UK-BASED FILMMAKER GIVES BACK BY HELPING LOCAL INDUSTRY GROW</a></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><b><br /><o:p></o:p></b><p></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">***</span></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-85042614414743849072022-01-07T11:26:00.000+02:002022-01-07T11:26:08.004+02:00JAC/WIN START NEW YEAR WITH A COMPETITION<br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSDoT2wEPDmj2gVKp8wfVqr6uowVfP0j-SRaP1iYoAtNCi_FT8Tevl42O4-mBjThcW1rnWe_sBOrUUGKSILg7aH0BDASs4ASWMfc7R8gBbkssyHzGGe7klp7lI3zOtQcOVPmKA2uRSR5rCgpd5JmsO473lFLKvhBw6LWNFC1nntdI_Tnt1hlr4Q4R_=s758" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="758" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSDoT2wEPDmj2gVKp8wfVqr6uowVfP0j-SRaP1iYoAtNCi_FT8Tevl42O4-mBjThcW1rnWe_sBOrUUGKSILg7aH0BDASs4ASWMfc7R8gBbkssyHzGGe7klp7lI3zOtQcOVPmKA2uRSR5rCgpd5JmsO473lFLKvhBw6LWNFC1nntdI_Tnt1hlr4Q4R_=w400-h183" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">JAC FILM SCHOOL & WIN-ZIM</span></b></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">Presents</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022 Writers Competition </span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">This
year JAC Film School is aiming to train 5 writers in the art of visual
storytelling. If you have an idea for a short film then this competition is for
you. Only registered WIN-Zim members are eligible. We are looking for entries in English that are less than 10 pages long.
Winners will be enrolled onto a 10-week training course free of charge and an
opportunity to direct their film. A bursary is available to support WIN-Zim
members who would have made it to the top five. This is to remove barriers to participation and can be used for
Wi-Fi-access and/ travel. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">Check
out JAC Film School on YouTube to watch some of last year’s winning short films and
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held online on Wednesday evenings for 2 hours.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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more info, please send questions to </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">writers@jacfilmschool.com or </span></span></span>winzimabwe@gmail.com</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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luck!</span></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">WELCOME 2022!</span></span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> <br /></span></span></span></i></span></p>
</div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-45343058539644837322021-10-14T12:36:00.004+02:002021-10-14T12:39:42.445+02:00WE ARE STILL GOING STRONG!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Dear Friends,</span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>We hope you are all well. It really has been long since we posted new stuff on our blog. Although we have been silent in the 'blogosphere', we are alive and still working full time in the background. WIN never dies! We are planning to bring you the latest newsletter soon. Know that we love you, and we will never let you down.</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Thank you,</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><b>Best Regards,</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><b>WIN</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-26759888272681313752021-06-26T12:32:00.000+02:002021-06-26T12:32:09.265+02:00ANOTHER ZIM LITERARY ICON HONOURED<p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Britannic Bold", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Britannic Bold", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Britannic Bold", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">Pathisa Nyathi Receives BZS Lifetime
Achievement Award</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmkz34u84GYrKOJiy5y-9S6ukRrR2szuuudlDYDZhn71CLy-ymOTR6-4btVA6ZWGU6RwnK0MeOkhmaUyEViJ4GKRNzVuCCE__24fiezK0ou-QLvDAPfDGf6p7jx1EqRIIXIY_yzGHeB60/s272/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="262" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmkz34u84GYrKOJiy5y-9S6ukRrR2szuuudlDYDZhn71CLy-ymOTR6-4btVA6ZWGU6RwnK0MeOkhmaUyEViJ4GKRNzVuCCE__24fiezK0ou-QLvDAPfDGf6p7jx1EqRIIXIY_yzGHeB60/w385-h400/unnamed.jpg" width="385" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pathisa
Nyati</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read
full article <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/phathisa-nyathi-receives-bzs-lifetime-achievement-award/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i>Amhlope!</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">***</span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-63288303931759389612021-06-23T22:06:00.001+02:002021-06-23T22:06:49.860+02:00CONGRATULATIONS TSITSI DANGAREMBGA<p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJ97zqyiVxtWOW-WDBvPIfLTUndPRZo35aisOotdEWJ9IgWoe8QzD_biqrWWTqAZrYPgRIP-6Ui5la4x41DSD7IbyKkvJUmAlgnjiIP_M20-ZZvrjyhrkssW2PobhpHjqEviIM1y7MXE/s700/tsitsi+dangarebga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJ97zqyiVxtWOW-WDBvPIfLTUndPRZo35aisOotdEWJ9IgWoe8QzD_biqrWWTqAZrYPgRIP-6Ui5la4x41DSD7IbyKkvJUmAlgnjiIP_M20-ZZvrjyhrkssW2PobhpHjqEviIM1y7MXE/w400-h225/tsitsi+dangarebga.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renowned
Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Wide Latin","serif"; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Winner
of the 2021 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/2021-peace-prize-of-the-german-book-trade-goes-to-zimbabwean-tsitsi-dangarembga/a-57977846" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;">Read More</span></b></a></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WIN Newsletter, Vol 2, Issue No
19 around the corner<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-12142858672344007762021-06-05T18:14:00.001+02:002021-06-05T18:14:23.208+02:00FIRE DESTROYS ZIBF GAZEBO<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;">Beaven
Tapureta – Winzim Online</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fEVRciKH5McUqlhqU-1pRmFyhw5xTP1J2yzYJUoS057uaNs87eZ3FTT6F7Tlt9wNM_OjcIWPvgn3HBCK4hwWJKVO3iCBSY6JYKoiflFfD-uYHzuGs6XfcKd0G3ezZA0csK_XXNoImrE/s516/chirere+memory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="516" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fEVRciKH5McUqlhqU-1pRmFyhw5xTP1J2yzYJUoS057uaNs87eZ3FTT6F7Tlt9wNM_OjcIWPvgn3HBCK4hwWJKVO3iCBSY6JYKoiflFfD-uYHzuGs6XfcKd0G3ezZA0csK_XXNoImrE/w400-h300/chirere+memory.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Writer Memory Chirere, ZIBF Board Chairperson</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">THE ZIMBABWE INTERNATIONAL BOOK
FAIR (ZIBF) is in an urgent situation after one of its special gazebos was destroyed
by fire in the morning on May 29, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In a
statement released to the media, the current ZIBF Board Chairperson, writer Memory
Chirere said the cause of the fire is yet to be established. Although the Fire
Brigade team from the Harare City Council managed to put out the fire, Chirere
said they could not save the gazebo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We want to thank the City of Harare Fire
Brigade for their quick response once they were informed. They managed to put
out the fire. But being a timber and thatch building, the speed at which the
fire moved means that the structure was burnt beyond repair,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The gazebo was dubbed ‘Country of Focus
Gazebo’ because it was used each year by a selected country which is invited to
showcase their books and other cultural materials. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chirere said countries like Nigeria,
Iran, Ghana and others were once stationed in that spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
gazebo hosted international literary figures thus it had become a special venue
for these legendary authors where they easily interacted with the media and
book lovers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The
destroyed gazebo is where the iconic Chinua Achebe alongside Luis Bernardo
Honwana of Mozambique and others showcased their literary oeuvre and addressed
the media during their joint first visit to Zimbabwe. That spot had become a
destination for book connoisseurs from across the world with books being
displayed and briskly sold both on the ground and first floor. This has also
been the venue for the Hifa Poetry Café for some time, now,” said Chirere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
unfortunate event has added another load on the ZIBF shoulder which already had
been weighted down by the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. But with the solidarity
so far exhibited by ZIBF friends and partners, local and abroad, not all is
lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“However, we are glad to announce that
some partners have already stepped in to assist us with rebuilding the gazebo
and the vicinity. You may want to know that the ZIBFA Executive board and the
General Council were already seized with redoing all our structures and the vicinity
as a matter of urgency,” Chirere said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He assured book industry stakeholders
that the 2021 ZIBF Theme still stands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Our theme for ZIBF 2021 is still ‘Book
Industry: The Dynamics Within’ and is receiving positive responses for the
traditional July-August event,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The ZIBF started in 1983 and is held
annually in the Harare Gardens in the capital city. Chirere said its location
is strategic as it is surrounded by other arts and cultural structures such as
the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and now Theatre In The Park. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>***</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, we found the following article interesting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><b><span style="color: #0d161a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">SHARP READ: ONE MARECHERA, TWO POINTS OF VIEW</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsRKa20kKDJ10sVrqKr_mpNe5Zas04sxw7QyWS9iPuHMCI_MNhV-XIk-LeFJdsEMeVJ80S56rDM0RwTZtTSLvitfSErG8Q1OVG9ECVLk5UFJUhM2evXfEy9SZkY-sNPf_BkrXX7Z_jS0/s290/dm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsRKa20kKDJ10sVrqKr_mpNe5Zas04sxw7QyWS9iPuHMCI_MNhV-XIk-LeFJdsEMeVJ80S56rDM0RwTZtTSLvitfSErG8Q1OVG9ECVLk5UFJUhM2evXfEy9SZkY-sNPf_BkrXX7Z_jS0/s0/dm.jpg" /></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0d161a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Dambudzo Marechera</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: #FFFFFC; line-height: 24.0pt; margin-bottom: 120.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0d161a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #0d161a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">The vastly
different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean
author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond
the subject matter.</span><b style="color: #0d161a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <a href="https://www.newframe.com/sharp-read-one-marechera-two-points-of-view/" target="_blank">Read More</a></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 252); line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 120pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0d161a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> OUR NEWSLETTER COMING SOON!</span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-41152817017429896002021-05-21T16:31:00.002+02:002021-05-21T21:03:12.171+02:00WIN NEWSLETTER VOL 2, ISSUE NO 18<p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">EDITORIAL</span></span></b></p>
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Elias Machemedze greeting President Mnangagwa at the recent official launch of his
book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Herbert Chitepo: The Life and Legacy
of Zimbabwe’s First Black Advocate and Patriotic Fighter, </i>a biography,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
</i>Harare<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;">WELCOME! </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;">WELCOME!</span> </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We hope you are
all good and safe. We bring you yet another informative, educative newsletter,
the best we can offer from our office! Thankful always to you all for the support,
indeed you are our stars. Scroll down to read for yourself the news, poetry,
reviews, and our exciting regular columns. Be blessed.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">IBBY LAUNCHES CHILDREN’S STORIES CDs</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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Online</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Not-for-sale children’s
stories CDs which were launched on April 30 at the Harare City Library by the
Zimbabwe section of International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) will
add momentum to the fight to win children back to the pleasures of learning
through listening to stories.</span></p>
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an era of the COVID-19 pandemic which until recently affected proper learning
in a school environment, the CDs will complement books in transforming homes and
schools into exciting learning places. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
IBBY CDs launch was in solidarity with this year’s worldwide celebration of
International Children’s Book Day held annually to ‘</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">inspire a love of reading and
to call attention to children's books’. The 2021 celebration ran under the
theme ‘The Music of Words’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkzY3zCj-FXnEtYZkhEBScQIPUThJxhgPtFBOx2AdshbPkNxJ-oFW3BEaL0ITVWyh85JKoEzJ_G6qmio4yXKX-uiONTH5UzKwoAYK1JLKXvNk7rqNKCXWti01vZg9c2_RavCKlXDe9Bi8/s768/cds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkzY3zCj-FXnEtYZkhEBScQIPUThJxhgPtFBOx2AdshbPkNxJ-oFW3BEaL0ITVWyh85JKoEzJ_G6qmio4yXKX-uiONTH5UzKwoAYK1JLKXvNk7rqNKCXWti01vZg9c2_RavCKlXDe9Bi8/w299-h320/cds.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">During the official hand-over
of the CDs to the library, project manager Mr Greenfield K Chilongo said gone
are the days when we used to have grandmothers telling stories to children.
With the coming of new technology, the traditional storyteller has been
replaced by the television, radio, phones and the social media. He said this
flood of information challenges us to instil in the children the spirit of
critical or evaluative reading and the CDs are crucial in that respect. He said
the stories are taken from various sources.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With
the supportive presence of authors such as Dr Samuel Makore, Memory Chirere,
Tinashe Muchuri, Edwin Msipa, illustrator Hennings Masikati, poet and broadcaster
Khumbulani Muleya, librarians, teachers and parents, the children from a few
invited schools owned the day with exciting storytelling and poetry
performances. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jordan
Matamisa (15) and Nicholas Russell (10) of Borrowdale Brooke Academy displayed
amazing talent as they did their pieces titled ‘Minutes of Glory’ and ‘Your
Best’ respectively. The lesson that one should just be what God made us was
reflected in Jordan’s story about a girl named Beatrice who thought that she
would win admiration if she changed her natural appearance. It was an expensive
dream; she decided to steal money to get the materials needed to transform
herself. Unfortunately, she is disappointed because after the transformation she
gets the opposite of admiration! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zoe
Matikiti (12) who is also the Head Girl at St Marcellin School recited ‘I am A
Folk Tale’ while Chloc Chapuredima from the same school put up a good show with
a short poem. Munerudo Mazarura (9) who is in Grade 5 at Nettleton Primary
School also highlighted the importance of folk tales in her poem ‘Folk Tales’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Organizations
like the ZIBF, Youth Initiative Zimbabwe, Writers International Network
Zimbabwe and Jairos Jiri were also represented while Heart & Soul
Broadcasting Services was the event media partner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The CDs
come in three volumes with different stories told in English and Shona
languages by writer Virginia Phiri <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aka</i>
Gogo Vee, Dr Josephine Muganiwa, Greenfield and Joylene Chilongo. Each story
has a moral or some lessons which children are expected to critically figure
out through the questions that come afterwards. Among the children’s stories
there are factual and informative presentations. For instance, Greenfield Chilongo
tells the story of Jairos Jiri, a well-known Zimbabwean philanthropist, and
provides guidelines for interacting with other children living with
disabilities. He also gives an exercise in effective communication which is
helpful to students in debating clubs. Some stories told by Dr Muganiwa are in
English and others are in Ndau language spoken in Chimanimani and Chipinge
districts of Manicaland, thus bringing diversity to the whole project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before
she presented her official International Children’s Book Day message, Virginia
Phiri, Chairperson of IBBY Zimbabwe Section, asked guests to observe a minute
of silence in memory of children who died of COVID-19 the world over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She
said the low attendance of school children at this year’s commemoration was
actually because of the need to also protect the children as called for by the
COVID-19 regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gogo
Vee said the Children’s Stories CDs came about as a response to the pandemic
which has made it difficult to tell stories in person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“As a
result of COVID-19, it became necessary to find a safer way to get stories to
children since it was no longer practical to tell stories in person,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In his
keynote address Harare City Library Board chairperson, Dr Joe Muzurura, gave a
brief background of the HCL with particular emphasis on the Petina Gappah
Children’s Library which has exciting resources and a good reading environment
for the kids.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Children Library, he said, is naturally bonded with IBBY vision to cultivate
reading habits in children so that they learn to absorb information critically
and also keep them away from bad influences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He
commented IBBY Zimbabwe for its courage and innovative project to record
children’s stories on CDs as this will also help teachers and parents/guardians
nurture the kids’ creativity at school and home. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However,
Dr Muzurura expressed his worries about the reduced number of young library
users at the HCL despite it having plenty of books for them. He implored
parents and teachers to subscribe to the library on behalf of their
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr
Muzurura invited organizations from the literary fraternity to use the library
space at a reasonable fee for their events. He extended the invitation to
authors who would want to read their stories to children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the question & answer session issues
emerged such as Dr Makore’s concern over the HCL’s ‘exorbitant’ subscription
and parking fees and the dysfunctional suburban libraries. The fees, the HCL
replied, are pegged high as such so as to cushion the library which hardly receives
grants from the education ministry or the Harare City Council. The Council is a
Trustee of the library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it was
noted that the fees will be revisited. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">About
suburban libraries, the HCL said it is surprised the libraries are in that sad
state because it hoped for proficiency when the City Council took over these
libraries under a Memorandum of Understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PRESIDENT LAUNCHES MACHEMEDZE’S LATEST BOOK</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks8BTutrH-lAbsG_E762M5gM7rUsI3H0jsCQ3rwfJ29qVEPOIkBl6Jzni7P4WMT7ICjLIlcZDW9PsJSueqR5aCiqCbaAQMaa3_3aQGj14qy2xoY8nH0jagNEqqJ4nr8p7ZuIJ0xTa3fc/s1080/cover+of+machemedze+book.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="789" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks8BTutrH-lAbsG_E762M5gM7rUsI3H0jsCQ3rwfJ29qVEPOIkBl6Jzni7P4WMT7ICjLIlcZDW9PsJSueqR5aCiqCbaAQMaa3_3aQGj14qy2xoY8nH0jagNEqqJ4nr8p7ZuIJ0xTa3fc/w293-h400/cover+of+machemedze+book.jpg" width="293" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">When
biographies of living or departed Zimbabwean legends are recorded in various
forms and published, we are certain our children will not go astray. Like other
countries around the world, there are geniuses Zimbabwe was/is blessed with,
gifts in all fields such as literature, politics, culture, arts, science and
others. When our story is written by us, we tell the world truthfully who we
are!</span></div></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is in this spirit
that we would like to congratulate author Elias Machemedze for the pride he has
brought upon our national history and literary community with his courageous biography
of one of Zimbabwe’s illustrious sons, Herbert W Chitepo. The book is titled </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Herbert Chitepo: The Life and Legacy of
Zimbabwe’s First Black Advocate and Patriotic Fighter.</i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;">And a
big thank you to President E. D Mnangagwa, for finding it worthwhile to endorse
such tremendous work at the official launch in Harare on May 7, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SOME WISDOM FROM WIN 6<sup>th</sup> ONLINE
LECTURE</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWNB7QEESpvKGyD20P9RM0ZDyKP3ElZ4dhYRSi3yz5B8dz4Z0ESexg0-SyaWgaAXQBFUB8b6wXrQpwVYpDKyUfC0SPApTorhyq3o-OLj1BTRujiJeiQ2XMhlPIxJSAIeZ2LRDGvZtPWQ/s1080/thoko+zulu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="607" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWNB7QEESpvKGyD20P9RM0ZDyKP3ElZ4dhYRSi3yz5B8dz4Z0ESexg0-SyaWgaAXQBFUB8b6wXrQpwVYpDKyUfC0SPApTorhyq3o-OLj1BTRujiJeiQ2XMhlPIxJSAIeZ2LRDGvZtPWQ/w225-h400/thoko+zulu.jpg" width="225" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thoko
Zulu</i></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">In the evening of April 24, 2021, multi-award
winning screenwriter, director and playwright Thoko Zulu was the 6<sup>th</sup>
guest lecturer for a WIN online session which dealt with basic script writing
skills. She is one of the winners in the Script Writing Contest run few months
ago by JAC Film School in partnership with WIN. Despite some hiccups the
lecture progressed very well, with Zulu giving a simplified explanation of some
intrinsic elements of script writing. The session also touched on story types
and formats. Below is a snippet of wisdom from the lecture:</span></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“My simple definition of a good
story would have two people arguing and arguing means conflicting views or
interests, which means your story should have a good character and a bad one.
When people argue, it simply means one wins and the other loses so by the end
of your story the argument must somehow resolve. That’s how simple I want us to
start. This then takes us to the following question - What are the two people
arguing about? This is where you come in as a screenwriter, selecting the best
subject and theme surrounding the conflict. And as freshmen/women it is important
to first explore familiar territory in your story choices and selection. Choose
a story subject you would be comfortable to write about or a territory that
wouldn’t make your assignment impossible to execute. It is also crucial to your
career success to be clever and creative in your selection of your story
conflicts, characters and the sequence of events that act as the spinal cord
for your story to move forward. You don’t want to select a conflict or argument
that ends on Page 2…” – Thoko Zulu</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Are
you a Zimbabwean budding writer? Do you wish to be part of the Winzim Superclassic
WhatsApp Group? Learn more from your peers and senior writers. Feel free to
register with us. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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+263 774548466<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Must be available Saturday 22</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> May 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Shooting in June in Harare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">For more details email </span><a href="mailto:writers@jacfilmschool.com"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">writers@jacfilmschool.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">“The Voices</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">” is a
short film about a young man returning home abruptly from University, only to
be thrust into a journey down memory lane that gives rise to some unexpected
revelations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><u>Cast Requirements!</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Beau</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Playing age: 19-25) Lead.
Timid, has lost his confidence but beginning to break out of his shell.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Cruz</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> (Playing age: 19-23) Beau’s
cousin, popular, confident, and outgoing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Beau’s mother</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">
(Playing age: 40-50) Friendly and caring woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Gogo</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> (Playing age: 65-80) Caring and
intuitive grandmother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Attendant
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">(Playing
age: 25-30) Receptionist at FastJet. Coloured or black<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Nadine </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">(Playing
age: 30-36) Faculty administrator. Loving, concerned and caring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Danny </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">(Playing
age: 21-23) Beau’s brother. Inconsiderate and immature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Prof. H </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">(Playing
age: 40-50) Course Convener. Stern, forthright, slightly concerned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>2 </b></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i>MIS-FORTUNATE </i></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Must be available Saturday 22</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> May 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Shooting in June in Harare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">For more details, email </span><a href="mailto:writers@jacfilmschool.com"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">writers@jacfilmschool.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mis-Fortunate</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">” is a short film about a young woman
who, after getting her heart broken, makes a drastic decision that will land
her in virgin territory.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><u>Cast Requirements!</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Fortunate</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Playing age: 19-25). Confident young woman, educated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Pam</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> (Playing age: 19-25)
Fortunate’s friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Tarisai</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">
(Playing age: 26-30) Fortunate’s cousin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Dennis</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">
(Playing age: 25-30) Boyfriend to Fortunate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Kelly </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">(Playing
age: 19-25) A girl from the neighbourhood, with access to a green item of
clothing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Saidi</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> (Playing age: 38-45) An Arab
businessman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><i><span style="color: #800180;">SUICIDE NOTEBOOK </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Must be available Saturday 29</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> May 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Shooting in June in Mutare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">For more details email </span><a href="mailto:writers@jacfilmschool.com"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">writers@jacfilmschool.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">“Suicide Notebook”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> is a short film based on a story by Tinashe
Muchuri about a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage and a mother
determined to save her daughter at any cost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><u>Cast Requirements!</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 162.75pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Magogo
(Playing age 50-60 years) </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Suzanna and
Latifah’s charismatic mother’s life revolves around her family and church. She expects</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> to be viewed as the
cement that holds her family relationship with her two daughters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 162.75pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Munyaradzi
(Playing age 30-35 years) </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Good for
nothing - dull school teacher.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> His life revolves around his family and work. A
lot of pressure is put on him by his mother to turn a blind eye on his wife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="tab-stops: 162.75pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Rudo
(Playing age 18-21 years) </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Rudo is
Munya’s niece/daughter to Munya’s sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She’s jittery and nerdy, <span style="color: black;">she has deep-seated
psychological issues and emotional issues which make her to become a serious
threat to Munya and Suzanna’s marriage.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Soko Wafawanaka (Playing age 60-65)
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">A no nonsense mother to Munya.
Heartless! The brains behind the demise of Munya’s marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.75pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Suzanna (Playing age 26-28 years)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> She is strong and courageous. Suzanna
believes in her marriage although there are destructing obstacles in her way,
Soko and Rudo to be particular. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.75pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Latifah (Playing age 25-28 years) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">A
drug addict with an I-don’t-give-a-damn ghetto attitude. Latifah has got her
mother and sister at heart, although she seems to be living a perfectly well
life from the other side of the world of drug addicts. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="tab-stops: 162.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Like JAC Film School Facebook Page and Follow us on Twitter
for acting roles. Thank you.</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">GO WELL TENDO: TRIBUTES TO RUTENDO CHIGUDU</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL5uxB2AfJv8xPJCWld6zeEZY6I-s0UI2iypPN44Snc1jz5iJmcgIqkt6L-wq2QcvLqfpVnBMW-MCI9tOCLEeuNP1yH_kGskp2c3Huoa5eYmAgexwRI4gFlfko-PIKuJr-5awALeunMc/s2048/chigudu.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL5uxB2AfJv8xPJCWld6zeEZY6I-s0UI2iypPN44Snc1jz5iJmcgIqkt6L-wq2QcvLqfpVnBMW-MCI9tOCLEeuNP1yH_kGskp2c3Huoa5eYmAgexwRI4gFlfko-PIKuJr-5awALeunMc/w300-h400/chigudu.JPG" width="300" /></a></b></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Rutendo
presenting at the Maya Angelou commemorations in Harare in 2014</i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The
news on May 6, 2021 that talented poet, actress Rutendo Chigudu collapsed and died
in South Africa plunged the literary circle into deep sadness. Everyone who
knew her silently asked, “Why go too soon, R-Tendo?” It was difficult to
believe that she was gone. In our grief, we are but comforted by the
‘heart-prints’ she left as she pursued her path of life with brilliance and
cheerfulness. It was the Botswana novelist Unity Dow who once said, ‘I urge you
to: Trudge not through life leaving ugly gashes, Tiptoe not through life leaving
half-formed impressions, But tread gently, lovingly and purposefully, leaving
graceful heart-prints.’ Truly, we will miss you. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-
Winzim</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Not only did we share the energy on stage, we also
did share many hours growing each other, encouraging each other to seek
knowledge and to advance our careers. I was just nothing talking to a graduate
when we first met; but you were a different person. You respected talent and
wanted people to learn from each interface. You guarded each interface
jealously to extract as many lessons as can be found. R-Tendo, you were an
editor whose nose for dialogue was a notch up there. I know what I am saying.
We shared time at your Fife Avenue apartment going through the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chimurenga Chemhuka</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, a Shona translation
of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Animal Farm</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. We had a share of
space again in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dzinonyandura Svinga
Renduri (2014)</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">.” </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">– Tinashe Muchuri</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72sPXEZs_ltAd_kTLn8Z8DeoN6Pz7VnDAtIrbgGoAPw7R4fADklsaMY8R-3zWCVDF8hkhkzDyrdmpuwdHZeNb4k99Q7JYGmAW2Vpqc12wFCX_Bv95umgBAQRxD4WffsGkttuDyyN26k4/s447/rutendo+hugging+novuyo.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="447" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72sPXEZs_ltAd_kTLn8Z8DeoN6Pz7VnDAtIrbgGoAPw7R4fADklsaMY8R-3zWCVDF8hkhkzDyrdmpuwdHZeNb4k99Q7JYGmAW2Vpqc12wFCX_Bv95umgBAQRxD4WffsGkttuDyyN26k4/w400-h353/rutendo+hugging+novuyo.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rutendo
congratulating author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma at the launch of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shadows</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in 2012</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwHtFNIZOTGRPSyfJIwLjtckt_ZGz3Rqw6_TYFeUgfI5qSSif-VUaHpTTkRo5gOSZBOhbpK0UopQbCA1RnK5tpJs6lwpHWCtTlGTncC0aGOMqbmOCvWavRlHe8NBxqJEJCqbs_6GJ1tg/s640/zimunya+and+rutendo+chigudu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwHtFNIZOTGRPSyfJIwLjtckt_ZGz3Rqw6_TYFeUgfI5qSSif-VUaHpTTkRo5gOSZBOhbpK0UopQbCA1RnK5tpJs6lwpHWCtTlGTncC0aGOMqbmOCvWavRlHe8NBxqJEJCqbs_6GJ1tg/w400-h300/zimunya+and+rutendo+chigudu.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><i> </i></b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">With
renowned writer Musaemura Zimunya at </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shadows</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">
launch</span></i><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJhjiJUbh4qa7ng8FNtoBppsMo45gzYKIzKmey2LgyPxF29A9ZgL4Z48AFMyTixz7VMlyXvukIMef1t4IabonTziaCPcwRYaIsjhqR84HQzfL0dLngQ6Imy07iWV-ymW9LuiMT4VIg7Mw/s532/rutendo+shimmer+and+chirere.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="532" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJhjiJUbh4qa7ng8FNtoBppsMo45gzYKIzKmey2LgyPxF29A9ZgL4Z48AFMyTixz7VMlyXvukIMef1t4IabonTziaCPcwRYaIsjhqR84HQzfL0dLngQ6Imy07iWV-ymW9LuiMT4VIg7Mw/w400-h271/rutendo+shimmer+and+chirere.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>With
writers Shimmer Chinodya (centre) and Memory Chirere</i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">REST IN
ETERNAL PEACE TENDO.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">MABASA HAS A NEW BOOK!</span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRwjA_J85N2Jk4DsKePK5zichPqw0DJxp57ozzhFFnrx_OsC4CIxbd5xLEOL1kV0ZLUZm21TAfH3-ktdfL8IsCgeyB_boFDF6ep7i2iff8PhdmMDMg5KFXhVq79RH6dOkpalMb_fJ7vI/s640/Mabasa+book+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRwjA_J85N2Jk4DsKePK5zichPqw0DJxp57ozzhFFnrx_OsC4CIxbd5xLEOL1kV0ZLUZm21TAfH3-ktdfL8IsCgeyB_boFDF6ep7i2iff8PhdmMDMg5KFXhVq79RH6dOkpalMb_fJ7vI/w400-h400/Mabasa+book+cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ziso Rezongororo</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> is Ignatius Mabasa’s 4<sup>th</sup> Shona novel published by
Oxford University Press. In Zimbabwe, the novel is distributed by School Books
4 Africa (SB4A) </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Contact: +263 772695286</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH NOVELIST BRYONY RHEAM</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMWK5I5x05d4F06QXDOt0adTbzMeoozEnViNUYr-pOkYnri5A2R3ZueaoAMS31wfkwgZJmiZo-ZqHsI5KijgRbe7vsYna7PGffJW5tmuuy6UljsvEpz-xoioY9xf9pru3TfJgZh1tYD4/s750/bryony+the+teenager.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="750" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMWK5I5x05d4F06QXDOt0adTbzMeoozEnViNUYr-pOkYnri5A2R3ZueaoAMS31wfkwgZJmiZo-ZqHsI5KijgRbe7vsYna7PGffJW5tmuuy6UljsvEpz-xoioY9xf9pru3TfJgZh1tYD4/w400-h353/bryony+the+teenager.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">From an
author’s archives: Young Bryony (left) with her sister</span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0qgmMvjhwdqWypIv20LD2jC1f-nnGFwrTSCeKvFLyHMvWzcC2drv7K3zy8Ab6kApQasf9tn9ay0y5KMxqFtgeBefStuJkuph7C-sKUjHuUnWaVmlqfQrESlDieIztTcvkKhjMPz1HkU/s267/this+september+sun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0qgmMvjhwdqWypIv20LD2jC1f-nnGFwrTSCeKvFLyHMvWzcC2drv7K3zy8Ab6kApQasf9tn9ay0y5KMxqFtgeBefStuJkuph7C-sKUjHuUnWaVmlqfQrESlDieIztTcvkKhjMPz1HkU/s0/this+september+sun.jpg" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-R23SzfrsfW4XmkR-DpgN22vB-8Kv8T6KqK4ZEsyDSM7uGVRJisj_0wCB66ANnHFeoncZ1OdmUUBeP9fkpCeBWBiNbtVSnuvK45EwsTmCjbMSMuXSwB2bk21-vFWr5WADVlL1dm8jfhw/s657/All+Come+To+Dust+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-R23SzfrsfW4XmkR-DpgN22vB-8Kv8T6KqK4ZEsyDSM7uGVRJisj_0wCB66ANnHFeoncZ1OdmUUBeP9fkpCeBWBiNbtVSnuvK45EwsTmCjbMSMuXSwB2bk21-vFWr5WADVlL1dm8jfhw/s320/All+Come+To+Dust+cover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After
the successful launch of her second novel All Come To Dust (Amabooks, 202o) in
Bulawayo late last year, author Bryony Rheam came to Harare for another launch and
book signing ceremony on April 21 and 22. Her first book is titled This
September Sun (Amabooks, 2009). In an exclusive interview with Beaven Tapureta
(BT), Bryony Rheam (BR) reflects on her teenage years and how they contributed
to the writer she is today.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: What
were you like as a teenager?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: I was
very shy as a teenager. I found it hard to mix in large groups. I was perhaps a
bit over-sensitive and enjoyed things like reading and writing poetry. I wanted
to be a writer, but also considered journalism and remedial teaching.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Where
did you live at that time and which schools were you attending?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Until
I was 15 we lived at How Mine, 30kms outside of Bulawayo. Then we moved into
Bulawayo. I went to Girls' College. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Did
you have an idea that you have a special writing talent? How did you make the
discovery?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have memories of
whatever you tried to scribble during that time?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I have
always wanted to write and English was the only subject I did well in at
school. Some of my teachers were very encouraging. When it came to
competitions, however, I didn't often do that well. That only came later on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: How
did your parents respond to your growing writing skills?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> My
parents, Jon and Fay, were always very encouraging. My mum would make me
rewrite anything she thought could be better. She always used to say I could be
anything I wanted if I put my mind to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Have
you ever tried writing poetry or plays? If not, why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I used
to write terrible poetry! It was very dramatic and usually about things I had
never experienced. My stories were much better. I liked having a twist in the
ending. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Who
was the greatest influence in your life at this time?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> My
mother was a very strong influence on me. She never thought wanting to be a
writer was a stupid idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Which
books were you reading or which ones did you like most?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I
enjoyed reading literature at school. I liked examining novels in depth and
discussing them. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Animal Farm</i> was one
of my favourites. I also liked Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> What were
your favourite hobbies or sports?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> At
school, I enjoyed cross country, but besides that, I was never a great sports
person. I never liked team sports. I think that's why I enjoyed running: it's
just you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
Looking back, do you think your teen years played a part in modelling the
writer you are today?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Yes, I
do feel those years helped shape me. I have always been a bit of an outsider
and I think all writers are outsiders. I was over-sensitive and I lacked
confidence. All that helped me feel life in a very raw way. It was that emotion
that I put into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This September Sun.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank
you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE YOUTH PERSPECTIVE</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">With</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgraDddCR3tNhMFz71w6qtvkI1qL_1SXzZQknrSHSeks-f0qqSTObygMULZ3j9hQME4KaR9-dGkzAMESFRfAF9gwhs-ShokOXKmV63NBTkPKSMxI93No94sZi9SnylYmLsS9aUyiVYOoDA/s400/mimimachakaire_002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgraDddCR3tNhMFz71w6qtvkI1qL_1SXzZQknrSHSeks-f0qqSTObygMULZ3j9hQME4KaR9-dGkzAMESFRfAF9gwhs-ShokOXKmV63NBTkPKSMxI93No94sZi9SnylYmLsS9aUyiVYOoDA/s320/mimimachakaire_002.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mimi Machakaire</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is 2021 The Future?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">For
years as youth, we imagined flying cars to be a sign of the future or any
technology that is beyond our wildest dreams like those we saw in cartoons such
as The Jetsons. While some technology has met our expectations such as robots
that look close to humans, we still see some aspects of life that appear very
ordinary. Which begs the question, is the year 2021 the arrival of the future?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Let us not forget that we are also living in a world
pandemic, which has majority of us still indoors. So, while we are somewhat
grateful for the Coronavirus vaccine roll out plan that has begun its distributions
in several countries, it has become apparent to us that there may be no cure
for a long time before we see the end of this deadly disease. However, this
does not justify the fact that some, if not most artists including writers, are
struggling to make ends meet especially since the start of the pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Part of the idea that we
are living in futuristic times is that by now, we are all successful in one way
or another, especially for those who have been working since their young age.
Yet some youth, artists and the like, have been applying for what is called an
artist relief fund from their various governments or other supporters. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What it means is that artists can apply for
any </span>interim financial assistance (up to $15,000, standard award is
$5,000) or according to the currency of one’s country. This may be for some
unforeseen circumstances and it is a one-time assistance for a specific
emergency. This does not cover dental, chronic conditions, or art
projects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">At
times artists receive it, usually</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> visual artists, in some cases restricted to painters, printmakers, and
sculptors who are in a mature phase of their career and/or have been working
for at least 10 years in their field. While social distancing and lockdowns are
the right moves to protect the health of our communities, the complete picture
of the financial repercussions are still unknown. With cancelled exhibitions,
classes, conferences and workshops over the span of a very short time, many
artists are feeling the stress of lost income and an uncertain future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">In the face of the
unknown, artists have unsurprisingly gotten creative about how they are
changing their artistic practice. However many are finding that they may need
additional financial resources to get through this hard time and are seeking
emergency grants available for artists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Therefore, this means
that there are many other arts organizations right now who have compiled a list
of emergency resources for artists as well an ongoing list of crowd funding
efforts to provide financial relief for artists. While it is good news that
some governments and organizations are attempting to help their artists in
their community, we never dreamed that the future would be this way in the
first place. However, despite all odds, we must as youth and artists alike keep
pushing because this is not the end but rather just a setback.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">While some are struggling
and some are not, it is hard to determine how one’s future will eventually turn
out but what we must do is have hope and live in the present and even more so,
take it a day at a time. This is because if we continue living in the fear of
the unknown then we will forever drown working just to pay the bills. As one
once said, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">to
live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">With so much pressure to
succeed, to win and to be permanently right, it is an invigorating and
refreshing thing not to fear failure. There is nothing wrong with being wrong,
except being frightened of it. We fail so that we learn. This knowledge and
understanding develops us as creatives (and our writing) so that with every
mistake we become more experienced and more adept.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Our lives depend on these
mistakes. They humble us so that we do not overreach ourselves. They teach us
so that we become wiser. They show us that when things go wrong, we need only
pick ourselves up and write about it or re-create it into any form in order to
carry on. Therefore, the year 2021 may not necessarily mean that the future is
here but rather a continuation of one’s life journey.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NGATINYOREYI</span></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVj8IcDJlLJ0XhXUFaBQbwR-U-FMVeKhOZpjhcwg5BkajCHhyGAlSLh-JIpQyI4pY1l7EIV-9kCzULpaQe8s0emZ5_8paLqCfhqGQiKCPY4vqzhJZHUGc59D_1NUnP_3aIcrVCAlyAIB0/s320/tinashe+muchuri%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVj8IcDJlLJ0XhXUFaBQbwR-U-FMVeKhOZpjhcwg5BkajCHhyGAlSLh-JIpQyI4pY1l7EIV-9kCzULpaQe8s0emZ5_8paLqCfhqGQiKCPY4vqzhJZHUGc59D_1NUnP_3aIcrVCAlyAIB0/s0/tinashe+muchuri%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NaTinashe Muchuri</span></i></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvakanaka
zvinotendwa. Zvakanaka zvinopururudzirwa, zvinoroverwa maoko pamwe nokuridzirwa
miridzo. Varongi veNational Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) mugore rapfuura vakati
nokuda kwekuti vadavadi vakati wandei vakange vavharidzirwa nekuda kwechirwere
cherudzibwamupengo cheCOVID-19, hazvaibvira kuti varongedze ruremekedzo
rwevadadi rweNAMA rwuya rwunotarisa mabasa avadavadi vachiri kudavadika mundima
dzohudavadi dzakasiyana siyana. Nokudaro vakasarudza kuremekedza hwereshenga,
shangwiti, zvidza zvevadavadi vakasimudzira ndima yehudavadi pamwe
nekuvakurudza nekusimbaradza vamwe vadavadi avo vanodaidzwa kuti Legends
paChiRumbi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Panoitwa
mutambo wekusarudzwa, panosara mavende mazhinji mukuvona kwevaya vasingasarudzi
vachitendeka kuti apo neapo sei pamira kuti kana kuti uyo nouyo sei apinda
pahwereshenga iye ano mukaka pamhuno kana kuti sei ngana nangana azovapo iye
asi mudzidzisi wake akaita ave nomukurumbira asipo. Ndizvo zvinoita chero pane
makwikwi chaiwo, unohwa porehwa nyaya yekuti paitwa tsvete kana kuti pane
vavhara ziso pakusarudza ndokuita sevasingaoni akakodzera vachikanda
asingakodzeri.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nyaya
hombe yakasimuka yaiva yokuti zvino zvakwamisikidzwa hwereshenga makumi mana
mhenyu dzinotakanyika, ko idzo hwereshenga dzakatisiya dzicharemekedzwawo
riini? Ko, ihwo huwandu uhu zvawaiswa pamakumi mana bedzi, ko dzimwe
hwereshenga dzinokodzera dzichaitwa sei? Hazvisi zvaita kuti basa rakanaka rive
musiyapaduku here? Mazita akawanda akapotserwa zvikuru, kumi,hanzi mazita
akaita seana Jeys Marabhini, Leonard Zhakata, Jonah Moyo, Machanic Manyeruke,
Charles Charamba navamwe vakawandawanda vakadomwa kunzi vasiirwei; kuvatambi
vekuedzesera upenyu mudariro kukabudawo mazita akaita seana Robert MaClaren,
Ben Sibenke, Daniel Maposa, Kubi Chaza –Indi nevamwe vazhinji; kuvanyori
kwakanzi kwasara mazita akaita seNaison Tfwala, Thompson Kumbirai Tsodzo, Giles
Kuimba navamwe vavo. Hakuna bazi rehudavadi risina kuchemachema kusanganisira revadavadi
vezvinoonekwa avo vaitiwo hwereshenga inenge Bester Kanyama mutori
wemufananidzo wembiri akanyorwa nezvake mubhuku raPetina Gappah rinonzi Book of
Memory sei asina kupindawo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvose
izvi zvataurwa zvikapera, mhepo yebopoto yaterama, mavhungwa adzikama
panoonekwa kuti donzvo rename idonzvo rakanaka chose. Hwereshenga dzavadavadi
dzinofanira kuremekedzwa dziri mhenyu. Asi hadzifaniri kungoremekedzwa nokupiwa
ruremekedzo rweNAMA basi. Kune nzira zhinji idzo dzingaita kuti vadavadi
vaonekwe vachiremekedzwa vachiri vapenyu zvichiita kuti hupenyu hwavo huendeke
uye hufambire mberi zvakanaka. Nzira yekutanga ndeyekuita kuti kuderedzwe
mabasa enhusvuri dzaparadza raramo yevadavadi nenzira yekukoponora mabasa
evadavadi dzichizviunganidzira upfumi husingawanikwi nevaridzi vakakodzera.
Nhusvuri imbavha dzinobira vadavadi pfuma yavo izvo zvinoita kuti vadavadi
vagare vachichema pfuma yavo ichibiwa nenhusvuri idzi. Pose panofamba vadavadi
mumigwagwa vanoona nziyo dzavo, mafirimu avo pamwe nemabhuku zvakawaridzwa mumigwagwa
zvichitengeserwa vanhu nembavha idzi. Hazvina kushata kupa vadavadi ava
ruremekedzo rweNAMA vari vapenyu, asi ruremekedzo urwu ngaruuye kavanhu vane
kudya kwavo kunovaringana. Hwereshenga zhinji dzakaremekedzwa paNAMA iyi
dzinoratidza kuti zvino dzava kubatwa nezvikotamo, zvinova zvirwere zvinouya
nokukura kwavanhu muupenyu. Munhu kana akura kudai, anosangana nourwere hwakati
wandei uhwo hunenge huchida mari, zvino mabasa avadavadi zvaasingachapi mari
kudai, achibiwa nenhusvuri, idzo hwereshenga dzoudavadi idzi dzingaitirweivo
kuitira kuti hutano hwadzo huenderere mberi zvakanaka? Iyi imwe nyaya
inoburitsawo kuremekedzwa kwehwereshenga dzavadavadi idzi. Nguva zhinji
zvinoonekwa kuti panoshaya vadavadi, hama neshamwari dzinotanga kuita mudeme
mudeme kuti basa rokuradzikwa kwavo rifambe zvakanaka, vamwe vachivatuka kuti
havana kurongeka, vamwe vachiti vapfachura mari, asi ukanyatsotarira mamirire
ehupfumi munyika pamwe nokubirwa kwavadavadi nenhusvuri idzo dzinoita kunge
gwatakwata ramhara mumunda hwezviyo risina anodzinga kwaita kuti vadavadi
vashungurudzike pamuraramiro wavo. Zvikazoti nekuuya kwaita chirwere
cherudzibwamupengo cheCOVID-19, matambudziko acho atonyanyisa. Zvichida,
Katsekere anogonawo kupa nzvimbo dzokuti vadavadi vaitewo misika yekutengesera
zvigadzirwa zvavo kuitira kuti nhusvuri dzishayewo mukana wekubira vadavadi
ava.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvakanakawo
zvakare tadzoka panhau yekuremekedzwa kwehwereshenga neNAMA kuti paya
pavaimboremekedza uyo anenge abata basa zvinoshamisa kwehupenyu hwese
neruremekedzo rweLifetime Achievement vanofanirawo kuwedzera chimwe chikamu
cheLiving Legends muchikamu chimwe nechimwe chezvikamu zveruremekedzo rweNAMA.
Izvi zvinopa mukana vaya vamwe vakasara paruremekedzo rwevanhu makumi mana
akaitwa gore rino zvakonzerwa nechigwere cherudzibwamupengo cheCOVID-19. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvinofadza
pahwereshenga dzakadomwa idzi ndezvekuti pane vanyori vakati wandei izvo
zvinoita kuti sevanyori tihwe kufara chose. Vanyori vanhu vane zvipo
zvehudavadi hunobatanidza ndima dzakawanda. Unogona kuwana munyori achinyora,
achitamba mitambo yekuedzesera, ari zvakare mugadziri wemafirimu uku ari muimbi
zvakare. Munyori akaita saAaron Chiundura Moyo, Albert Nyathi, Chirikure
Chirikure, Barbra Makhalisa- Nkala, Tsitsi Dangarembwa, Shimmer Chinodya,
Musaemura Zimunya namwe vanowanikwa vachibata mabasa ehudavadi akawanda izvo
zvinovapa kushanda nokubatsira vadavadi vakawandisa. Zvinofadza kuona vamwe
vevanhu vakativeza uye vanoramba vachiveza vamwe vanyori vatsva vachipiwa
ruremekedzo rwakadai. Izvi zvinoratidza kuti varongi veruremekedzo
rwehwereshenga rweNAMA havana kungonongeredza vadavadi asi kuti vakaita
tsvangurudzo yakasimba ndokuona hwereshenga dzakasimba pahudavadi hwadzo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">Kudai
varongi veNAMA vatorawo mukana iwoyu kuti vabudise chinyorwa chakabatana
pamusoro pehwereshenga makumi mana idzi icho chinozoiswawo munzvimbo
yakachengetedzwa kuitira kuwanisa vachauya nevatsvagurudzi ruzivo rwekushandisa
mutsvagurudzo dzavo dzeudavadi nevadavadi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ngatinyorei
hama dzinodikanwa. Kunyora kwakanaka. Kunyora kunopa upenyu kuvanyori
nevanosangana nebasa ravanyori. Zvakanakawo zvakare kuverenga muchinyora
muchiverenga. Musazoregazve kupinda mumakwikwi ekunyora akasiyana siyana. Gourd
of Consciousness National Poetry Competition anobatsira kutesvera vanyori uye
anowanisa vanyori zvokuverenga sezvo mubairo wacho uri wemabhuku maviri kubva
kuvanyori vemuZimbabwe. Izvi zviri kukurudzirawo vanyori kuverenga zvinyorwa
zvevanyori vemunyika ino. Nyorai, muverenge muverengwe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvakadero
hazvo, musakanganwa kuti chirwere cherudzibwamupengo cheCOVID-19 chichiri
kushungurudza vanhu munyika naizvozvo ngatitevedzerei zviga zvakatemwa senzira
yekudzivirira kuparadzirwa kwacho. Donongodzo izere yevakaremekedzwa iyo pazasi
apo.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Alick
Macheso — Musician, Nicholas Zacharia — Musician, Thomas Mapfumo — Musician,
Irene Chigamba — Musician, Zexie Manatsa — Musician, Lovemore Majaivana —
Musician, Bothwell Nyamhondera — Music Producer, Fraderic Mujuru — Musician,
Stella Chiweshe — Musician, Joyce Jenje Makwenda — Ethnomusicologist, Stephen
Chigorimbo — Filmmaker/Actor, Joe Njagu — Filmmaker, Nakai Matema — Filmmaker,
Ben Mhaka — Filmmaker, Susan Chenjerai — Actress, Jesesi Mungoshi — Actress, Felix
Moyo — Actor, Ellen Mlangeni — Actress/StoryTeller/Dancer, Aaron Chiundura Moyo
— Actor/Writer, Shimmer Chinodya — Writer, Chirikure Chirikure — Poet/Writer,
Barbara Makhalisa Nkala — Writer, Musaemura Zimunya — Writer, Cont Mhlanga —
Playwright, Phathisa Nyathi — Writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga — Writer, Paul
Chidyausiku — Writer, Susan Haines — Playwright, Dominic Benhura — Sculptor,
Sylvester Mubayi — Sculptor, Tafuma Gutsa — Sculptor, Adam Madebe — Sculptor,
Albert Nyathi — Poet, Daves Ghuzha — Theater, Jasen Mphepho — Theater, Matesu
Dube — Theatre/Dance, Nkululeko Dube — Theatre/Dance, Barnabas Chademoyo —
Dance, Helen Eiros — Painter, Rashid Jogee — Painter</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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REVIEW</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso1cSiAxvXA_r0G6L4N6nNC1l9QybdXO_6OIaVb5yhUXl6y48Ff2EodiOGloyu7bzLw5JBbKlQqcwzPDy2EZLQfolO4dNtpGUVYIHACzvcBYRqCr_AJjwAQ7K-hgTQF_GQ0H1S2nLjDw/s763/edwin+msipa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="478" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso1cSiAxvXA_r0G6L4N6nNC1l9QybdXO_6OIaVb5yhUXl6y48Ff2EodiOGloyu7bzLw5JBbKlQqcwzPDy2EZLQfolO4dNtpGUVYIHACzvcBYRqCr_AJjwAQ7K-hgTQF_GQ0H1S2nLjDw/s320/edwin+msipa.jpg" /></a></i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Edwin
Msipa</span></i></div></i><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9yMbgI2_71x-qmY4Q_rCZLHqU_NoWvI0M1XwToVYbgpcPvnI2F0Rbf4lNxOD6DvwG9ha84a6rxICqaheqMOUZhDKMojVzM13PrjPfmVP1v2Eo1OTUPjLTaFSWj7ugjASet2K4osd9gM/s746/maungira+eZimbabwe+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="590" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9yMbgI2_71x-qmY4Q_rCZLHqU_NoWvI0M1XwToVYbgpcPvnI2F0Rbf4lNxOD6DvwG9ha84a6rxICqaheqMOUZhDKMojVzM13PrjPfmVP1v2Eo1OTUPjLTaFSWj7ugjASet2K4osd9gM/w316-h400/maungira+eZimbabwe+cover.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Front cover of <i>Maungira eZimbabwe</i></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">TWO different sets of
vibrant poets; the upcoming and published, have partnered in publishing a gem
of a Shona poetry anthology entitled, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'Maungira
eZimbabwe'</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. And indeed the echoes of these young Zimbabwe's poets will
reverberate forever. Their songs will last and last like a mother's love. It
would be unjust not to start by paying glowing tribute to Emmanuel 'The Prince
of Mazvihwa' Mhike who has developed a knack of grooming upcoming poets and
writers in Zimbabwe. It would also be wayward not to mention his other sixteen
'partners in crime' whose deft touch with the pen shone throughout the book
from the first page to the last one. The reader of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maungira eZimbabwe</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> needs to be reminded to eat to a point of
satiety first before reading this marvellous piece of art, lest he or she
spends the whole day flipping through its pages and finds no time to eat. </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://munyori.org/2021/05/a-review-of-maungira-ezimbabwe-new-poetry-anthology/" target="_blank">READ MORE</a> </b></p>
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EXTRACT FROM CHIRERE’S FORTHCOMING POETRY COLLECTION!</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2JkiXU2prvJfX7282g9MmaabtitqTHbHyVPInwmcwq87_89YiBcc95vXY9XRLK7s9W69HGk2CSgerqUvIEFdppgdRs-LshHlY7RQ28gokHoxGFZaRscdZ1OSxoIW2ESEAH4CQYFnboM/s320/chirere.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="178" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2JkiXU2prvJfX7282g9MmaabtitqTHbHyVPInwmcwq87_89YiBcc95vXY9XRLK7s9W69HGk2CSgerqUvIEFdppgdRs-LshHlY7RQ28gokHoxGFZaRscdZ1OSxoIW2ESEAH4CQYFnboM/w223-h400/chirere.JPG" width="223" /></a></b></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Memory Chirere</i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Below
is an excerpt from Memory Chirere’s forthcoming Shona poetry collection ‘Shamhu
Yezera Renyu’, the excerpt is published here with permission from the
author </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bindura
Zvakare<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Aita mawara okuisa ruoko muhomwe mangu</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">achibva aburitsa dhora ndisina kumupa.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Abva awonekwa ipapo nevana vandakaticha.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hondo iyo! Hondo iyo! Hondo iyo! Hondo!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vaisa ndiro dzezvavanotengesa pasi ndokuti naye!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndabva ndakwidza kupinda mubhazi reDharuweni.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndawana hangu pekugara ndokudongorera panze.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndamuona achangobatwa nevana vandakaticha.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vanga vakamumbundikira vose sevanomuda.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vachiuya naye kuhwindo rebhazi kuti ndizvionere.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndaona achizozvuzvurudzwa pamusika weBindura.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Anga achinzi, “Haungadaro kuna mudhara wedu!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndanzwa achidavira achiti, “Maiwee kani!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndichibva ndatanga hangu kumenya bhanana.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vana vandakaticha vamutenderedza sechamupupuri.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndanzwa iye achiti, “Handichambozvipamhidza!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndichibva ndavhura kokora inotonhorera chaizvo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Apidigurwa sechidhori achizunzwa homwe dzake.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Atorerwa zvose nedhora raambenge anditorerawo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndapfeka magirazi angu kuti ndinyatsoona zvose.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vamwe vana vandakaticha varamba vachiungana.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndaisaziva kuti vawanda semawuto emasvosve kudai.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Muchinda azhamba zvanzwikwa nevanga vari mubhazi.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndikatoti, “Asi ave kutovhiyiwa sembudzi here?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Aroverwa pamutumbi webhazi seumhutu kumadziro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Anga achibvunzwa kunzi, “Unoda kufa here iwe?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndamunzwa achiti, “Aiwa musandiuraye. Musauraye!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndanga ndichingodawo kurarama chete chete.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vammbomusimudza zvatinoita munhu agowesa bhora.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vazosimudza nehope yake zvakare kuti itarise kubhazi.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vatanga kucheka cheka mhotsi dzake nechainge chigero.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pabva pazoitika chinhu chaisafanira kuitika, mufunge.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Nekuti ndaona ari Tendai J. Chiwanza wekwa Tembo!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Aimbenge ari hedhi bhoyi pamazuva angu ndichivaticha.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Zvakwana!” ndakamba asi handina kana kumbozvinzwa. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndazongonzwa mawungira enzwi rangu kuti nderangu.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tendai aimbenge andibatsira kuwana zvose zvinofanira<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">kuwanikwa nemunhu kuti ave munhu muBindura.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Zvakwaaaaaaana!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndichikamba kudaro vana vandakaticha vazomurega.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndaona achimuka achimhanya nemusika sedzvatsvatsva.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mbatya dzake dzanga dzichizeya sedzechinyau chiri mudariro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mugumbo anga asara neshangu imwechete ine mamheya.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Atiza achiti peya peya peya achikanda nhanho achidzedzereka.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndaburitsa foni yangu ndokumutora pikicha achitiza kudaro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ndosaka ndichigaroti: kana pandinozofawo hangu inini <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">mweya wangu wose zvawo haungagone kubuda muBindura.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN ZIMBABWE</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Dv7jLM7S0_iLVjkZcX8Em7XyMyLSRfCkpp5NYv1YUa2-BGphYDTmXjgPhYh9OV0O5XsF-pva122YeoFI1cnADvT6mdCt8apKcx0PBVMvrz9kOeN6o50norGOdY6sfLwjqgPuzST3qTg/s249/kaposa2%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Dv7jLM7S0_iLVjkZcX8Em7XyMyLSRfCkpp5NYv1YUa2-BGphYDTmXjgPhYh9OV0O5XsF-pva122YeoFI1cnADvT6mdCt8apKcx0PBVMvrz9kOeN6o50norGOdY6sfLwjqgPuzST3qTg/s0/kaposa2%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Aleck Kaposa</span></i></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Rhodox Day<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
soft wind that could just ruffle the surface of the glinting Gwebi river water
was blowing early one morning as we poured out of the Chipwanya forest into the
road that led straight to school. To our great surprise, the sun was already
high up in the sky.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Guys we better
start trotting, otherwise we will get to school very, very late.” Shikrivhao
said to the four of us: Masteki, Amadu, Penjeni and myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“True, boys, it’s long gone past assembly time, and
lessons have already started,” said Masteki apprehensively and quickly added,
“We all know how sweet Mr Gudo Zuze’s fan belt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">black mamba</i> tastes like on one’s back.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Oh my God, that black mamba whip…” Amadu said, as
fearful as a warrior who has lost his spear and shield in the middle of a
raging battle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“We are in big trouble today, guys. We should not have
gone to that place,” Masteki complained. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We are already
very late guys, whether we run or keep walking, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Penjeni declared with finality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">We should have been in class by then, had it not been for
Shikrivhao who had lured us to pass through a place near Gomo raSatani where he
said, while looking for firewood a few days ago, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he stumbled upon a big beehive with enough
honey to fill three or four buckets. We had all like the biblical Adam, failed
to resist the temptation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I swear there was a huge beehive on the mouth of that
anthill that looks like a lion’s head over there,” was all Shikrivao could say
after an hour’s fervent search for the beehive with plenty of honey had proved
to be nowhere to be found. Now with the sun high up in the sky, we knew real
trouble awaited us at school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Then just at that moment, as we emerged one by one from
the tall elephant grass into the dust road, we heard Amadu who was ahead of us,
suddenly scream with delight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Guys, look!” he shouted excitedly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">We shot into the road<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and looked up<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the eastern
sky, where Amadu was pointing. There, high in the blue, sunshine-bathed eastern
sky, flew a dozen or so, huge, onion-shaped things of many different colours
with square baskets suspended by short ropes under each of them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What are those things?” Shikrivao asked as we stared at
the flying things in wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Those are parachutes.” Amadu declared<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, they are not,” Penjeni said, “Parachutes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are open and don’t have those boxes. I once
saw parachutes at Mt Hampden Airport.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“So what are they?” Shikrivhao continued asking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“We don’t know what they are. Let’s just call them flying
things.” Penjeni said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, yes,” we all agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Slowly the flying things drew nearer and nearer but some
drifted away in different directions, towards Mashonga hills, St Marnocks,
Kenzi farm and African Distillers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
they flew above us, they made a low droning sound and we could see that there
were people inside the square baskets, people like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">baas</i> Michael Peter Belinsky, the owner of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the farm where we lived. We waved at the
people and they waved back at us. Soon the strange flying things went past us
and their low purring sound gradually died like heavy rain coming to an
end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then started trotting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">We met Mr Kubaya, one of our teachers, a short distance
from the school yard fence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Good morning teacher,” we threw a combined greeting at
him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Morning,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he
bellowed. “I know you are late for school because you went chasing after those <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rhodoxes” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“So that is the name of those flying things, teacher?”
Amadu dared ask.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I think that is the name, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rhodox, </i>from Rhodesia Oxygen company.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Thank you teacher,” we said together and timidly
proceeded to our classroom where we met the undiluted fury of Mr Gudo Zuze who
whipped us on our backs with his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">black
mamba</i>. Soon afterwards, he made each one of us dig a one-by-one metre pits
in the nature reserve area next to the orchard and then made us write a
composition entitled<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The day I will never
forget.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the afternoon
when Mr Gudo Zuze’s anger had evaporated like the water we poured on the school
vegetable garden beds every three days, we asked him the name of the flying
things and he said: “Those things are called gondolas I think.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">On the following morning, we saw those <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rhodoxes or </i>gondolas again. One of them
actually landed in the school yard and the headmaster permitted all of us to go
and see it at close range.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Ali, you are the one who knows how to speak in English,”
Penjeni said to me. “Go and talk to those people.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">I went to the men in overalls written Turnpan Zimbabwe
who were busy folding the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>huge tent and
untying ropes and introduced myself to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, Ali,” one of the men said, “I am Ted, Ted Hughes.
You want the name of this flying thing, it’s is called a hot air balloon. It’s
a large airtight bag filled with hot air or a lighter-than-air gas such as
helium or hydrogen so that it will rise and float in the atmosphere. This box
here is called a wicker basket.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ted Hughes went on to explain more about how the hot air
balloon flies and lands and also its different parts. As he concluded his
explanation, a Turnpan Zimbabwe truck drove into the school yard to pick up the
men and the now-deflated hot air balloon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thanked the man
and went back to class. Soon the truck carefully drove out of the school yard
and went away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw27vKSXo6YYnNSjbv2F_IaUW7qBEsy1tnwRtwToRnqOdDuywp889mC2ubLOoRbubqCOhlfSB9HbaJad_LS0xEwtkEvS6OHO6sZtg6JSthLB8_wpnszXty0RB-DjzQhwB4M19yUi4LYsM/s572/for+kaposa+column.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent: 1cm;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw27vKSXo6YYnNSjbv2F_IaUW7qBEsy1tnwRtwToRnqOdDuywp889mC2ubLOoRbubqCOhlfSB9HbaJad_LS0xEwtkEvS6OHO6sZtg6JSthLB8_wpnszXty0RB-DjzQhwB4M19yUi4LYsM/s320/for+kaposa+column.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There, high in the blue, sunshine-bathed sky, flew a
dozen or so, huge, onion-shaped things of many different colours with square
baskets suspended by short ropes under each of them.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MABHUKU EDU/ OUR BOOKS<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Makadii vaverengi nevanyori.
Rwendo rwuno ndauya nechimwe chinyorwa, chichakutandadzai, icho chiri maringe
nenzira yekupakurwa kwemabhuku, enyayanyorwa nenhetembo nevanyori vazvino.
Naizvozvo chakan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">an</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">gana
nevanyori vemabhuku <i>(Ndinovimba kuti
kubva pachinyorwa changu chemwedzi wapfuura, mave kuziva mutsauko wemunyori
webhuku uye nemunyori chete)</i> vazvino avo vanonyora nyayanyorwa nenhetembo
vachitsikisa vega, ndich</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">vanyeurira kuti vagova vakabudirira mubasa ravo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vatsikisi vekare, vanganzi neChiRungu
“Traditional Publishers”, vari kutsanangurwa nevanyori vazhinji vemazuvano,
vachinzi havasi kugashira mabhuku enyayanyorwa kana nhetembo kubva kuvanyori,
nechikonzero chekuti vanoti mabhuku aya, haavaunziri mari nekukasika sezvo
mukana wekutengwa kwavo uri mushomasa. Vanoti kuti atengwe hunge akwanisa
kusarudzwa neveZIMSEC, asi mukana wekuti mabhuku acho asarudzwe ese ndiwo
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Izvi
zvinova zvinodzikisira vanyori vazhinji venyayanyorwa kana nhetembo kuratidza
kudavadika kwavo sezvo kunyayanyorwa nenhetembo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>kuriko kwavanogona zvikuru, kupinda dzimwe mhando dzemabhuku. Nekuda
kwekusarasa mbereko nekufirwa, vanyori, ava vakazviwanira nzira iri nyore
yekupakura zvichinyorwa zvavo vachiratidza vaverengi unyanzvi hwavo pakuruka
nyaya nenhetembo. Panzira idzi pane mbiri dzinoti:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">1.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> Iya
yandakabva mukutaura nezvayo pachinyorwa chemwedzi wapfuura ndichiti, vanyori
vepadandemutande (Online Authors) vaya vasingatsikisi, asi vave kungoti
akapedza kunyora nhasi, anogona kutongopa kana kutengesera vaverengi
vovaraidzika havo nekudya kwenjere.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">2.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">Vanyori
vemabhuku vanozvitsikisira. Ava ndevanoti, akapedza kunyora bhuku rake,
anotsvaka mupepeti wake, mutari wemufananidzo, murongedzi wemazwi, uye nezvimwe
zvese zvinodikanwa kusvika bhuku rapera, achizvibuditsira mari ega. Ava vane
mhando mbiri dzinoti</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">i) Kuzviitira zvese ega achibhadhara mari kuvanhu
vanomuitira basa iri bhuku robuda rine zita remutsiksi asina kunyoreswa kana
kuti asingazivikanwi. Anonotenga ISBN yake ega. Paya panodikanwa zita
remutsikisi anobva angonyora zita raanoda ega, raanenge angofunga.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 1cm;">ii) Kutsvaka vatsikisi vadiki (Small Publishers) vanoda
kubhadharwa, pane zvese zvavachaita. Ava vanogona kukutengera ISBN kana kuti
unotenga wega, asi vozongoisa <i>logo</i>
rekambani yavo, zvoita sekuti bhuku iri ratsikiswa navo. Kazhinji munobva
manyorerana pasi kuti mutsikisi uyu haana masimba ese pabhuku rako, asi kuti
iwe ndiwe une simba rese, kana kuti iye anenge aine chipenga chidiki
zvichienderana nebasa raaita, mumwe anototi haana kana simba racho pabhuku
rako, zvichienderana nekushandidzana kwamaita na</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 1cm;">ye</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 1cm;">, pabhuku rako.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nzira
idzi dzese dziri mbiri dzarerukira vanyori vazhinji zvekuti vazhinji vanyori
vemabhuku aya ndiyo nzira yavari kushandisa. Nzira idzi hadzina mukana wekuti
bhuku rirambirwe kutsikiswa, asi bhuku rese rinotsikiswa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kwakabuda
mabhuku mazhinji nenzira iyi ayo akanaka chaizvo. Hongu vanyori vakazviwanira
nzira yakanaka yekuratidza unyanzvi hwavo, asi ndakaona kuti vasarirwa nechinhu
chimwe chete chinovakoshera icho chekuti vanofanira kuchiita kuti vagova
vakabudirira zvikuru mubasa ravo iri. Chinhu ichi ndechekutsvaka nzira yekuti
mabhuku avo asvike kuvaverengi zvine simba sekubudirira kwavo kune simba
pakupakura mabhuku aya. Nekuti vazhinji hongu vari kupakura mabhuku mazhinji
zviri nyore, asi pakuzoti mabhuku iwayo asvike kuvaverengi vakawanda pari
kuvanetsa. Vamwe vari kuzogumira pakungotsikisa, voratidza vamwe vanyori kana
hama dzavo zvotopera zvakadaro, mabhuku aye otogara zvavo mumba panzvimbo
paanochengeterwa pangava musaga, pasi pemubhedha, muwadhiropu kana pamwewo.
Vanyori ava vanogona kutoita makore gumi kana kuita mabhuku gumi kana
kuraudzira, asi vasingazivikanwi nevaverengi vakawanda, kana vemunharaunda
yavanogara chaiyo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Chiri
kuita mabhuku avo atadze kusvika kuvaverengi vakawanda inyaya yekushaya mari
yekupirindisa mamwe ma</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">kopi</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> emabhuku avo. Kuti mabhuku avo asvike kuvaverengi vazhizhi
ndinoti ngavamboedza chinhu ichi:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kuti ivo vobatana pachavo, vova
neboka rekubatsirana kutengesa mabhuku aya, pamwe vachienda nawo kuzvikoro vari
seboka ravo. Votsvakawo rubatsiro kune mapazi anoona nezvekusimudzira mapoka
anenge achitanga mabhizimusi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Hongu
kune dzimwe nzira zhinji dzekuti mabhuku avo azivikanwe nevaverengi, asi mari
yekuti vaendese kuPrinting yemaCopy angasvike kana zana ekuti vagotengesera
kana kungopawo vaverengi vavo, haiwanikwi nevanyori vazhinji kana akazvimirira
ega. Izvi ndakazviona kune vamwewo vanyori.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Iri
ndiro donzvo rangu muchinyorwa chino, kuti vanyori zvavakawana nzira yakanaka
yekutsikisa mabhuku avo, kudai vachitsvakazve nzira yekuti mabhuku avo asvike
mumaoko evaverengi vakawanda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">VOICE FROM THE MOUNTAINS</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfjyr_qMsQzHm1K2v7eZXI_PedHQQ5Nlo-dh0UNYzktmEbFik5Cqxu387Gfv_uiQzgjfrZFbtoxnA7to6EO6YAzx9nB0BIAwGDuzzUOdSpI7Dnk2YutMcZGM6ryI5pUWxaZpIFROx7JE/s320/kavenga+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfjyr_qMsQzHm1K2v7eZXI_PedHQQ5Nlo-dh0UNYzktmEbFik5Cqxu387Gfv_uiQzgjfrZFbtoxnA7to6EO6YAzx9nB0BIAwGDuzzUOdSpI7Dnk2YutMcZGM6ryI5pUWxaZpIFROx7JE/s0/kavenga+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Clever S Kavenga</span></i></div></i><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The following
poem was published in The Patriot, 2019</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Silent
Hills</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Simbarashe Clever Kavenga</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">These hills silent as they are</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Have seen it all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Comforted the wretched one and welcomed the
brave sons and daughters of thy land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Taking up arms for motherland's sake <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To free her from the bloody yoke of colonialism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These hills silent as they are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hold our story in awe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes these silent hills of Chimoio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Under their mystic timeless shadows <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I saw images of yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Though I couldn’t shake<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The General's hand in honour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I felt his godly presence in those moments of
silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here commanders marching mystically in slow
motion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Inspecting the guard of honour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The comrades ready to leave for the war front<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These hills silent as they are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bear the scars of our time as prisoners of hope<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These hills silent as they are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Are a story told in silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here the foundation of our independence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The land watered by teardrops and blood of our
liberators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here where Nyadzonia River wails and groans
still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As it was yesterday after the treacherous acts
of cowardice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These hills silent as they are <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Are like silos of a thousand dreams murmuring
still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Their songs are in the wind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Their songs Nyadzonia wails through them day and
night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And their hopes are embedded in these flowers
thy land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes these hills silent as they are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They are our story waiting to be told to you and
me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In my next
instalment of Voice From The Mountains I am going to feature one of the winners
in the JAC/ WIN Script Writing Competition, Mutare-based author Shingirai Manyengavana
(PICTURED BELOW). Continue to enjoy this space!</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRGg6ctS7LbgwSsvOzTnG9Kst7OQYxfeAUQpLjI8bjRtXcNCbNglgLIPLnkgEJrPdqBBX7nMVun5HtSeH054a_lXKGxj_Z59PGBgAS6kghoz6SnpS8B1pRcmdBIPc-s0iB-QUDcDVZD4M/s1000/manyengavana.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="666" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRGg6ctS7LbgwSsvOzTnG9Kst7OQYxfeAUQpLjI8bjRtXcNCbNglgLIPLnkgEJrPdqBBX7nMVun5HtSeH054a_lXKGxj_Z59PGBgAS6kghoz6SnpS8B1pRcmdBIPc-s0iB-QUDcDVZD4M/w266-h400/manyengavana.jpg" width="266" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shingirai
Manyengavana</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WANDAYI’S SECOND NOVEL</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOfxQOht20MuoeAakP99rh8C656qvZcnHJqaByLSJgVgk5qvVni-I9SzlKaIkAkKR4f6eAwjK8gN9Tz4VM1tvEkqaXKJgayndakEUYW92Q_5iHzKtEFL0_m84867WcnQ9cHvCsKh9OJac/s768/joti+neketani+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOfxQOht20MuoeAakP99rh8C656qvZcnHJqaByLSJgVgk5qvVni-I9SzlKaIkAkKR4f6eAwjK8gN9Tz4VM1tvEkqaXKJgayndakEUYW92Q_5iHzKtEFL0_m84867WcnQ9cHvCsKh9OJac/w281-h400/joti+neketani+cover.jpg" width="281" /></a></b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Book review coming in our next newsletter!</span></i></div></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2DJoZVZqB8YSl4UEdeuPCt9MsmE2k4LKYigaictWKrj5MtbLRTu9RLwu1_78wOy8sysboruqRdo4yH82WhHV4UXJwbKsBwUlELzW44faI0yE3whZtAZ60yf8jCI2kBhi8byxWW-JD0U/s253/matonga.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2DJoZVZqB8YSl4UEdeuPCt9MsmE2k4LKYigaictWKrj5MtbLRTu9RLwu1_78wOy8sysboruqRdo4yH82WhHV4UXJwbKsBwUlELzW44faI0yE3whZtAZ60yf8jCI2kBhi8byxWW-JD0U/s0/matonga.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Joseph
Matonga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Writers International Network Zimbabwe would
like to ask friends for any information regarding a manuscript (unpublished)
titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tozivepi </i>written by Joseph
Matonga. The manuscript (two counter books with khaki and plastic covers), had
twelve chapters. If you have any information, please contact us at </span></b><a href="mailto:winzimbabwe@gmail.com"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">winzimbabwe@gmail.com</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FORTHCOMING SHONA POETRY ANTHOLOGY</span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">***</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The WIN Literary Newsletter is edited
by the WIN Editorial Team and published on the blog monthly or bi-monthly by
Writers International Network Zimbabwe (WIN). If you want to contribute or need
more information, contact us: </span></i><a href="mailto:winzimbabwe@gmail.com"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">winzimbabwe@gmail.com</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">THANK YOU <span style="color: #ff00fe;">FOR READING</span>. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-47124798355594286482021-04-20T22:49:00.005+02:002021-04-20T22:51:01.369+02:00April Newsletter Coming Soon<p><br /></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Flashback: </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Renowned Zimbabwean writer Shimmer Chinodya
share a lighter moment with former National Arts Council Director Elvas Mari at
a Zimbabwe Writers Association meeting seven years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 115%;">APRIL</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 115%;"> ISSUE OF THE WIN NEWSLETTER COMING SOON!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 48pt;">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 48pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-67696265357604693842021-02-27T21:49:00.001+02:002021-02-27T22:32:08.091+02:00JAC/WIN ANNOUNCE SCRIPT WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1e0OOQ7O-zmYTzjwRZ9LdZ14t2F2dmEAAIlMO9h_OZpqOIPKRaa3N2X1uB91wthSC0lkXrAgbFr12zcE7_jIUoH4Lc_BfGxnhB9IY9eXjvHLA4g7f1N7Re9iRC0flPHsEc2KxTHcbaG4/s758/JAC+WIN+LOGOS+COMBINED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="758" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1e0OOQ7O-zmYTzjwRZ9LdZ14t2F2dmEAAIlMO9h_OZpqOIPKRaa3N2X1uB91wthSC0lkXrAgbFr12zcE7_jIUoH4Lc_BfGxnhB9IY9eXjvHLA4g7f1N7Re9iRC0flPHsEc2KxTHcbaG4/w400-h183/JAC+WIN+LOGOS+COMBINED.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are glad to announce that we have now finished
assessing and judging all the entries received for our script writing
competition. JAC Film School has already sent valuable assessment reports to
all the competitors to help them improve their scripts. The good news is that
the adjudicators discovered there were <span style="background: white;">some very good entries and in the end made offers to 5 writers. The
winners will start working on their projects from March 8 to May 24, 2021</span>.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">AND
THE WINNERS</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE WINNERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WINNERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ARE…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 46.4pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: center; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thoko Zulu for <b>CROSSROADS</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 46.4pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: center; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sharon Munjenjema for <b>NEWSMEN</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 46.4pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: center; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Shingirai Manyengavana for <b>SUICIDE NOTEBOOK</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 46.4pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: center; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lloyd Munhanga for <b>THE VOICES</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 46.4pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: center; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sharon Rudo Mutangadura for <b>THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">WE
SAY </span></b><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;">CONGRATULATIONS!</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">MORE UPDATES IN OUR NEXT
NEWSLETTER COMING SOON<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">THANK
YOU.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">For
more information, you can contact us:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="mailto:writers@jacfilmschool.com">writers@jacfilmschool.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="mailto:winzimbabwe@gmail.com">winzimbabwe@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468776176061379340.post-10852639196706936922021-02-21T13:15:00.004+02:002021-02-22T03:55:21.033+02:00WIN SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Covering Vol. 2, Issues 16 & 17)</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">EDITORIAL</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlI4zOVWymD_gxuPX2jCS0hlkDuJ98-2WuLPRvpYdKv51r401GlueTp2M4vL8Eh-HUyeCyw6zivlTbISE-ZQi3mYw69u8E_GxCKqG015PB1AdCFwjm7u5RCmkJRdb2aT4GGdQ8OndXy4/s768/flora.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="491" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlI4zOVWymD_gxuPX2jCS0hlkDuJ98-2WuLPRvpYdKv51r401GlueTp2M4vL8Eh-HUyeCyw6zivlTbISE-ZQi3mYw69u8E_GxCKqG015PB1AdCFwjm7u5RCmkJRdb2aT4GGdQ8OndXy4/w256-h400/flora.JPG" width="256" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr Flora Veit-Wild at a writers workshop in Harare in 2014</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-kRPN6mueEB2VmBrzoQBxylDdmev7iv5kcue8Ko3uqCA6nRXw_TFmj5kcsKoBAFQG3xDrlX6Fr_SZ1cTdFhB6D7BJpaANAovtdKKmCLgy0YJvhLP82HQ3dkSqjJqCK9CFumOa9RSLF8/s1200/they+called+you+Dambudzo+book+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="848" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-kRPN6mueEB2VmBrzoQBxylDdmev7iv5kcue8Ko3uqCA6nRXw_TFmj5kcsKoBAFQG3xDrlX6Fr_SZ1cTdFhB6D7BJpaANAovtdKKmCLgy0YJvhLP82HQ3dkSqjJqCK9CFumOa9RSLF8/s320/they+called+you+Dambudzo+book+cover.jpg" /></a></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">They Called You Dambudzo</span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">, 2020 publication by Dr. Flora Veit-Wild</span></span></b></span></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="background: white;">The memoir</span></span></span><span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></span><span><i><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">They Called You Dambudzo</span></i></span><span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> will be launched online</span></span><span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></span><span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">in South Africa</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> on 25 February 2021</span><span> at 5pm CET (6pm Southern African time). The author Dr Flora Veit-Wild will be in conversation with Tinashe Mushakavanhu (WISER Johannesburg) and Shaun Viljoen (Stellenbosch University).</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to 2021!</span> It is appropriate for WIN-ZIM to start 2021 with a double issue, coming out close to the end of the second month of the year. As you can see, there has been a lot to cover, a lot to reflect on, and a lot to look forward to. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It wasn't easy to navigate the roller coaster ride that was 2020, and the uncertainties of last year have continued into the new year, but there is hope as science continues to make inroads into ways of handling the pandemic. This trying season has tested our resilience as humans, and has made us reflect and project, and in some cases, we have found it difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel, especially because we didn't have a clear picture of what the tunnel looks like. But for artists, especially we poets, writers, playwrights, what has the year meant for our work? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For me, 2020 meant less writing of new projects, but a reflection on past works, as well as some planning for a post-pandemic future of creativity. I found that the present was too illusive, but still there, the present within which my work should find its roots, a present that at times seems too slow, at other times vanishing fast, a present loaded with uncertainty. But hope was always there, hope retained through the idea of community which seemed threated by "social distancing", a terrible term that somehow benefited community. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have watched with great optimism the proliferation of community through alternative means, means which have become the norm. Platforms like WhatsApp, Zoom, Facebook, YouTube have helped us avoid the damaging effects of the misnamed "social distancing" (if it were up to me, I would settle for 'physical distancing!'). WIN-ZIM, initially just as pandemic-threatened as any organization that thrives on collaborative, in-person initiatives, has found strength (to the extent that strength was possible) in social media. This time has opened up other ways of staying connected, and with this level of connectedness, I have seen resilient writers who have continued to share their works on social media, and especially on our WhatsApp platform. The same writers also show up in other groups, and they participate in intiatives run by other arts promoters.<b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gourd of Consciousness Poetry</span> </b>comes to mind, so does <b>Chisiya Writers Club</b>, and calls for contributions from newspapers and other media channels in Zimbabwe and beyond. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Believe me when I say that there are signs of growth. As this double-issue shows, we are at a time when the influence and reach of the association is expanding. We have a bigger membership, and we are launching collaborative projects that benefit our writers. The JAC/WIN Scriptwriting Project is one example of what the future holds for us. We are also headed into the direction of disappearing boundaries, as through this pandemic, we have discovered that our connectedness is critical in what we do, and that geographical boundaries are unnecessary obstacles. Through technology such as Zoom, WhatsApp, Facebook Live, and others, our collaboration could go beyond the boundaries of Zimbabwe, of Africa. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am aware of the connectivity issues that we sometimes experience, and of challenges that may make us prioritize livelihoods over data bundles, but I also urge every artist to consider their art as important as other sources of livelihood. My focus this year as a creative is to educate myself on the business of my art, on understanding monetization, and on connecting with networks that enhance my success in these pursuits. I want to see WIN-ZIM playing this role of empowering its members through projects that help them better their livelihoods. For this to succeed though, the membership has to be invested in their works and in the vision of the association. To use pandemic parlance, "Together we can make it." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you and happy reading! --<b>Emmanuel Sigauke </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">A
TEST OF RESILIENCE AND FAITH</span></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></b></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnmkj9c7nXh9JtTrWIJHz1y3SFLgVeq783vJtqfZBvWyJr6evAaMah4DrtvP_LC8GScTi9VoGXZnSMY6cc8y-JpCTlSEKCPlcO045OACbY1n3lr7uGg4EYg-myRBfohShQRkRAIepPMo/s913/olivia+c+paasche.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnmkj9c7nXh9JtTrWIJHz1y3SFLgVeq783vJtqfZBvWyJr6evAaMah4DrtvP_LC8GScTi9VoGXZnSMY6cc8y-JpCTlSEKCPlcO045OACbY1n3lr7uGg4EYg-myRBfohShQRkRAIepPMo/w280-h400/olivia+c+paasche.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://oliviacpaasche.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Olivia Christian Paasche</a></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, author of<i>
The Next of Kin</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">GRACE AND PEACE to you dear
friends! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I was
invited by WIN to make a commentary on the year 2020. I instinctively exclaimed
‘Lord have mercy! I’ve got to get out of this one somehow! How is it possible
that anyone can make sense of the year 2020, let alone write about it?’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">The
year 2020 was like a ship tossed recklessly in the middle of a dark stormy
ocean.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dear
family, even as I write, the tempest continues - the times in which we live and
the outcome will surely be a test of our resilience and faith. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I once
heard a renown and much loved Catholic priest tell this story:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Lighthouse</span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">A ship was being tossed
in the ocean. The passengers were losing hope. They were filled with dreadful
fear. They didn’t know where they were.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The penetrating darkness and the tempestuous
howling winds intensified their terror. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All hope was soon lost. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However,
unbeknown to them all, there was a light that shone in the cabin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little boy always dreamed of being a
captain of a ship. He had studied everything about ships and had quite a good
understanding about their function as he had taken many cruises with his uncle.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So when
the captain and his crew all got sick the little boy convinced the passengers
to let him go into the crew cabin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Reluctantly
and too ill and despondent to argue they let him go in. They were going to die
anyway - that’s what they figured out. The boy was taught to believe in Angels.
So he talked to his Guardian Angel and asked for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he took the wheel he noticed a lighthouse
in the distance. His heart leaped! He knew he would make it! They would make it!
So he steered the ship in the pitch darkness and got closer to the light.
Suddenly they ran into sand! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They
had reached land!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That
land was the Cape of Good Hope. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">Dear
all, this is the message year 2020 has taught me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When we
find ourselves being tossed to and fro in the ocean of madness the only thing
necessary is to grow closer to the true Light. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
Light of God. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Writing
from London, once again and with much love- Grace and Peace to you all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Olivia Paasche<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LATEST
UPDATE</span></span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">JAC/WIN SCRIPT WRITING </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">COMPETITION</span></span></b></span></p>
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express their gratitude for the overwhelming response to the call for entries
for the </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;"><a href="https://win-zimbabwe.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-great-opportunity.html" target="_blank">Script Writing Competition</a></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">. Submissions closed
on February 5 after the extension of the initial deadline January 29, 2021.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Winners will be announced on </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">February</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span lang="EN-US">26, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, JAC held an optional Zoom meeting on</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Monday, 15 February, 2021, at 4pm UK Time (6pm
Zim time) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">with all writers who
submitted. The meeting was </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">strictly by
invitation only and was an opportunity for JAC to address any questions that
writers might have going forward. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The winners will start working on their projects
from Monday, March 1, 2021, to Monday, May 17, 2021. This gives us 12 weeks,
meeting every Monday at 4pm - 6pm UK Time. There will be individual work
assignments given during these sessions with writers handing in through JAC Workspace
facilities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emails will be sent out to the winners and also
for those who were unsuccessful, a full review of their script detailing where improvements
to the script can be made. They will also get information about
useful websites and tools for improving their writing skills. The winners
will get 1:1 feedback and will work to develop their scripts further during the
12 weeks working with the Director of JAC Film School, Jessie Allen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">BUILDING AN AFRICAN FILM SCHOOL</span></span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By Jessie Allen, Director of JAC Film
School<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">JAC Film School was
created by Jessie Allen towards the end of 2020 as a vessel for teaching story
telling using the language of films and documentaries. The school aims to equip
African creatives with the confidence and skills to find their own voices and
use their experiences to create possibilities for themselves and for the
continent of Africa. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">JAC
Film School is important and urgent because the need for African expression is
at an all-time high and the space to do this now exists culturally. JAC Film
School believes that through our imagination the image of Africa and Africans
can be greatly enhanced. This mission is bigger than any one writer can ever
hope to accomplish but rather requires a whole army of creatives working
together for this one purpose.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While
JAC Film School is currently working on establishing and growing a relationship
with Zimbabwean writers, the school is also beginning to focus thoughtfully its
efforts on how to expand collaboration with writers’ organisations in other
African countries. This includes planning how to establish formal relationships
with the local and international film and television industries. We are working
hard to try to understand what the process is and who we need to work with and
what the approval levels might be to take the school’s aims to the next level.
This next phase involves creating opportunities for </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">mentorship for the school’s students.
We aim to partner with local film production companies around Africa where they
will possibly mentor and invite our students to learn their craft from a
practitioner perspective. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is hoped that through mentoring,
coaching, and training in not only technical skills but in life skills, African
lives can be touched and changed forever. This film school aims to impart
self-esteem, confidence, self-efficacy, and a greater will to be
self-sufficient in a world that is as uncertain as it is unequal. JAC Film
School further recognises that nurturing and amplifying underrepresented and
marginalised voices is not just vital to society - it also helps to build a
more diverse, equitable, and vibrant creative landscape. Work is underway to
create an interactive website with relevant content to move this agenda
forward. A conference will be held on 15 February 2021 via the Zoom platform to
update writers on the upcoming activities planned at the school. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">For further information please contact
the founder Jessie Allen via email at writers@jacfilmschool.com</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">LORDWELL
MANYIKA’S WONDERFUL LEGACY</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By Beaven Tapureta<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh96tEIKpqh4NtNfc7tKL0V5PQUis2YViH_Xux2hwq_9BmcVKSTJTt5nU9DpZAx4rvrmKrkxuR1U-lzngXZeehjaeX2j2nACIa-Gwv__E-jbgoFWNtg_SwSEUgFnMwoADzS4vR2xj3mhZ8/s578/mr+manyika.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="578" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh96tEIKpqh4NtNfc7tKL0V5PQUis2YViH_Xux2hwq_9BmcVKSTJTt5nU9DpZAx4rvrmKrkxuR1U-lzngXZeehjaeX2j2nACIa-Gwv__E-jbgoFWNtg_SwSEUgFnMwoADzS4vR2xj3mhZ8/w400-h319/mr+manyika.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 27pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lordwell M Manyika (wearing glasses) at the official
book launch of ‘Doing The Most Good As A Servant of God In The 21<sup>st</sup>
Century’ (written by Philbert Alexander Jumbe) held in Harare in July 2019</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The death of Lordwell M Manyika (67), an accomplished
editor and translator and devoted Christian, on January 6, 2021, came as a
shock to the book and Christian community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Harare City Corps, an International Christian Fellowship
of the Salvation Army which announced his death on its Facebook page, Manyika collapsed
on January 5 and died the following day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 127.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“On behalf of the Corps Officers, I announce
the promotion to glory of Lordwell Manyika. He collapsed yesterday and passed
away today (6.1.2020). His association with the city corps goes back to the
1980s. He was the flag sergeant, at one time a member of the songster brigade
and an editor of the corps magazine. He worked for the Bible Society and he
will be remembered for the bible donations he made to various institutions
including prisons. May his soul rest in peace,” said the official voice of the Harare
City Corps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAvHV5dpmKd7vHoEqjPdEj0WhcpyUjRGwcJsPYpo9oCkdQ2nzhJIVVCUihcbqVkrY5SYXsjk0Pqr1EpWEbfsNya_azedBLhrj8aqwFRnxt6M3RfJdnlW5jQsB4QSidQr_Z3H1_E5kipA/s743/mr+manyika2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="743" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAvHV5dpmKd7vHoEqjPdEj0WhcpyUjRGwcJsPYpo9oCkdQ2nzhJIVVCUihcbqVkrY5SYXsjk0Pqr1EpWEbfsNya_azedBLhrj8aqwFRnxt6M3RfJdnlW5jQsB4QSidQr_Z3H1_E5kipA/w400-h304/mr+manyika2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 127.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">Philbert
Alexander Jumbe, a Retired Corps Secretary in the Salvation Army and author of
the book </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 1cm;">Doing The Most Good As A Servant
of God in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century,</i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> described Manyika as a man who wore many Church hats.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“A man
who wore many Church hats! This is the only appropriate way to describe
Lordwell, a Soldier of the Harare City Corps recently promoted to Glory. When I
transferred into the Corps in the early 1980s, Lordwell was the Colour
Sergeant, (a Commissioned Soldier responsible for raising the Salvation Army
Flag during Special ceremonies), and he was also a Songster. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">He
worked for the International Bible Society and it was during the visit of his
International Overseer to this country some ten or so years ago, that Lordwell
invited me to lunch with him and his superior when I ended up joining the
International Bible Society of which I am still a member, this is in addition
to my membership of the Bible Society of Zimbabwe,” he said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That
Manyika had a deep passion for things literary was a gift for everyone to see.
He was a writer and he loved to encourage writers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“He was
a writer of note. Lordwell contributed to many writings at the Church. When one
of the Soldiers, Jackie Sadler, the Editor of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>our Magazine the Trumpeter, left, Lordwell was appointed in her place
becoming responsible for writing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>many
articles about the Harare City Corps. This is a very important role which keeps
Soldiers informed of developments in our Church particularly, those who have
left but still maintain an interest in the progress of our ministry. I used to
contribute to the Trumpeter on account of my responsibility as Corps Secretary.
This did not go unnoticed by Lordwell who encouraged me to be involved in
general writing. It was through the urge of members such as Lordwell that I finally
put pen to paper to produce my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doing
The Most Good As A Servant Of God In The 21 St Century</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As expected, he was one of the attendants at
my book launch on 27 July 2018 .He was obviously happy when he realised his
dream of seeing me write a manuscript. May His Soul Rest in Peace,” elder Jumbe
said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Esteemed Ndebele literature writer, editor and
publisher Barbara Nkala, also known as Gogo Nkala, said Manyika has left a wonderful legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was with shock and sadness that I
received the news of Lordwell Manyika’s sudden collapse and passing away on
January 6, 2021. I worked with him at International Bible Society-Zimbabwe
(before it became Biblica) for eight years. He was in charge of the Shona
translation of the Bible and worked very well with our Shona team in
translation, review and testing work. Lordwell loved the Lord and would show
his passion and excitement whenever a milestone was reached in the translation
work. He also was a keen distributor of Bibles. Lordwell went to the Salvation
Army Church and always was ready to share a devotional during prayer time, and
he provided the good bass voice when we sang hymns and choruses for worship. It
was a wonderful day for him when the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bhaibheri Dzvene MuchiShona Chanhasi</span></i><b>
</b>was launched in 2006 after publication in 2005. Manyika had put his soul in
this successful version. Wonderful legacy. He is sorely missed by colleagues,”
she said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
Zimbabwe International Book Fair Association said it feels greatly robbed by
the death of Lordwell Manyika. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“As
ZIBFA, we feel robed by the death of Lordwell Manyika. A very humble and
brotherly man. Helpful and not quick to anger. Writers in all our associations
have always recognised the huge contribution of Manyika as editor and
translator especially during his days at Zimbabwe Literature Bureau. He was an
active participant at the ZIBF Indaba and ZIBF Writers Workshops. Often, him
and his colleague, Elvas Mari, came in with useful info about the practical
process of producing the book. May his soul rest in peace,” said Memory Chirere,
ZIBFA Board Chairperson. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Elvas Mari, former </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Director
of the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> worked in the Literature Bureau with Manyika.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I
first met Mr Lordwell Manyika in 1990 when I was appointed Editorial Officer at
Literature Bureau (Harare). We also had staff in Bulawayo branch of Literature
Bureau. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">He was
one of our seniors who taught us all about assessment of manuscripts,
proofreading, editing among many activities that we did at the Bureau. Some of
the senior staff members then were Mr Elson Tafa, Late Mr O Chiromo, Late Mr
Amos Munjanja and our Chief Editorial Officer Mr Bisset Chitsike. This very
experienced team was composed of non-university graduates as opposed to the
newly recruited team of Mr Maxwell Ngangira, Mrs Ndaizivenyi Nyamakura, Mrs
Lovemery Muzondo, and Mrs Zvikomborero Marimo. Please also note that the
current Deputy Director of National Archives Mr Dunmore Maboreke and other
later joined us later. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">Mr
Manyika was very humble, helpful and unassuming gentleman who always was
trusted to induct new officers especially in proof reading and editing. He was
very professional in his work and always focussed on the job to be done He was
also very religious as well and always would request people to pray before
holding meetings. Our relationship was further strengthened because I was
together with his young brother Zivanai at UZ in the mid-80s. I also briefly
interacted with him when I was at National Arts Council of Zimbabwe when he
wanted Council to partner the Bible Society, he was now working for to avail
religious literature to those who wanted it. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">I am
extremely sorry to learn of Mr Manyika’s demise and extend my sincere
condolences to his family and workmates. May I on behalf of all former officers
of Literature Bureau say MHDSRIEP,” he said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Being a Literature Bureau editorial officer meant
networking with local publishers, writers’ and media organizations operating at
that time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe is one
such organization that benefitted from the experience of Bureau officers who
often were invited to facilitate BWAZ workshops countrywide. Writers who passed
through BWAZ will recall the workshops conducted in all the provinces with
Literature Bureau editorial officers cum facilitators such as those mentioned
by Elvas Mari. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although Manyika co-facilitated various BWAZ
workshops around Zimbabwe, the one held at Chevron Hotel in Masvingo many years
ago remained a memorable one till his death. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whenever he met with this writer, a former BWAZ
Programmes Officer, or when introducing him to new people, he never forgot to
mention the Masvingo experience, mostly how hospitably the BWAZ staff took care
of him. He loved the experience. BWAZ at that time had Dudziro Nhengu as Executive
Director, Timothy Chaitezvi and this writer as Programmes Officers. Manyika
would narrate the experience of the trip to his friends with such enthusiasm
and gratitude. To echo what others have said about him, the man truly loved the
Lord and believed in living in peace & togetherness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“These guys took good care of me on that trip to
Masvingo,” he would say and that alone seemed to him more important than
memories of the main workshop theme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His enlightening
ideas always inspired budding writers. He understood what things ought to be in
the local book industry. When he was with the Literature Bureau, he in 1988
presented at an editors’ seminar a paper titled ‘Radio Programmes and Book
Titles in Relation to Their Themes’ which explained and justified the
customized format of the radio programmes which the Bureau was conducting. The
paper appears in the final compilation of all seminar presentations titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Editor’s Manual</i> (Mambo Press, 1992). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his paper, apart from dealing with book titles and
themes, he also makes it clear that radio and TV programmes can boost book
sales and generate reading interest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And who can forget the dramatized novel readings on
radio which were produced by the Literature Bureau some years ago!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today, the Zimbabwean community lives in the absence
of regular book reading radio programmes in all indigenous languages thus it
lives in an environment that has no stimulus to reading or access to the world
of creative imagination. Sadly, we look back and talk about past well-known Shona
programmes like ‘Mabhuku Nevanyori’ (presented by the gifted Rebecca Chisamba
better known as Mai Chisamba), ‘Muninga Dzepfungwa (presented by Aaron
Chiundura Moyo) and ‘Vanyori Vemangwana’ (presented by Charles Mumanikidzwa). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although there may be current literary and educational
radio and television programmes running, none of them are as popular as the
ones mentioned above which got every listener glued to his/her radio set. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his paper, the late Manyika said, “The radio
programme is effective in that it reaches everyone with a radio set. These
people may be in the cities of Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru and Mutare, or the
villages and farming communities. As soon as interest in them is generated then
we shall have clusters of people gathered around a radio set waiting for the
Literature Bureau programme. Anyone who feels at ease with the listening skill
rather than the reading skill will enjoy listening to our programmes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The editor-translator was currently mooting the
formation a Trust that would fill the gap left by the Literature Bureau. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He did not much want to publicize this new vision of a
Trust as he wanted to patiently lay down the foundation first. However, he at
some point saw possibility of partnering with Writers International Network
Zimbabwe (WIN) and all other book industry stakeholders. He emphasized the
‘no-profit’ basis of the Trust but which basis he said doesn’t necessarily mean
an organization wholly forsakes the concept of making profits which it needs to
sustain its own life. In other words, the late Manyika believed in the
potential of partnering with stakeholders, including government, to change the
literary landscape of Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Had he lived to drive his new vision of a literary
trust to fruition, no doubt this important radio aspect and other new ideas he
harbored would have found a niche in his constitution. He has, in Gogo Nkala’s
words, left us a wonderful legacy. We carry it onwards. He will be greatly
missed. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 362.25pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="tab-stops: 362.25pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia;">CONGRATULATIONS TSITSI DANGAREBGA!</span></span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMco8mFyqfZYCge1BY4667zBC1ncGrKsxkE8pA9BU2Bok1oMz-fzvnBF2hyj0-_-uvXEXlNPoZEmnfNKd7LZGio7Od7d6ENEHXdmmLQNE9rDzk69nTE8Ai_Sos4Z_BLwcpVs_VOecz10/s800/Tsitsi-Dangarembga.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="800" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMco8mFyqfZYCge1BY4667zBC1ncGrKsxkE8pA9BU2Bok1oMz-fzvnBF2hyj0-_-uvXEXlNPoZEmnfNKd7LZGio7Od7d6ENEHXdmmLQNE9rDzk69nTE8Ai_Sos4Z_BLwcpVs_VOecz10/w400-h275/Tsitsi-Dangarembga.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Tsitsi
Dangarembga </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Photo courtesy of
newzimbabwe.com)</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <a href="https://www.zimeye.net/2021/01/08/dangarembga-honoured-with-pen-award-for-freedom-of-expression/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Below
are remarks by Chairperson of PEN Zimbabwe, the local branch of PEN
International, Mr Elisha July.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At PEN Zimbabwe, we feel
profoundly humbled by the recognition of one of our own – Tsitsi Dangarembga –
to the exalted hall of fame among the country’s foremost champions of one of
the key fundamental rights enshrined in our constitution – The Freedom of
Expression. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Indeed,
while Tsitsi remains a shining beacon among Zimbabwe’s literary luminaries
holding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>distinction of being a trailblazer in
establishing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zimbabwean, and indeed,
African women on the international literary scene, she has added<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>another crowning feather to her list of
formidable achievements.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Etched
in the minds of many up to this day are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>social media images of a lone figure waving a protest placard
during<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an anti-corruption protest in
July last year. Many of us were astonished that someone of so slight a stature,
had the courage to stand up to the brutality that usually visits those who dare
challenge authority in Zimbabwe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
this at a time when the country was in the grip of a global pandemic which had
generally unsettled everyone and placed the authorities on edge – as they
struggled to enforce an unprecedented national lockdown on a restive
population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is a
mark of Tsitsi’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>extraordinary
commitment, not only to her chosen vocation as a writer and thought<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leader,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and that she was not content with just being an award winning novelist,
but she sought to add her voice to the broader issues of human rights and the
freedom of expression. At Pen Zimbabwe, we stand firmly behind Tsitsi on this –
because as authors and writers, we recognize that our craft cannot thrive in an
environment of repression and official bigotry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tsitsi
took a stand, as must all of us, in fighting for that which is just. Many of us
may lack the fortitude to face the might of those that wield the power – but
people like Tsitsi have shown us that it can be done. Tsitsi did not need to be
arrested and face imprisonment to be famous. She was already famous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She holds the distinction of being the author
of the first book by a black woman from Zimbabwe to be published in English. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As PEN
Zimbabwe, and the Zimbabwean literary fraternity, we are proud to share
Tsitsi’s many achievements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But most
significant is her pioneering literary works exemplified by her trailblazing
1988 debut novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nervous Conditions,</i>
named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the
world. This book went on to win the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1989 – which
led to the book being translated into numerous languages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tsitsi
is a remarkable woman and we applaud the decision by PEN International to
bestow upon her the PEN Award for Freedom of Expression. We pledge our support
to her for we appreciate that such an award comes with enormous
responsibilities to uphold the sacred ideals of respect for human rights, right
to individual dignity and freedom to express one’s views without hindrance.
Tsitsi has raised our flag high in this regard and it remains incumbent on all
of us to live by those ideals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lastly
on behalf of PEN Zimbabwe family and all members, hearty congratulations to
Tsitsi – I am confident this award emboldens all of us to do what is right even
in the face of adversity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">Thank
you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Elisha
July, PEN Zimbabwe Chairperson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">NOTHANDO STARTS BOOK SERIES</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Winzim Online</span></span></i></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLlvRnoKIXRfpzw60nTQwym8QDW_f-Wm9Nfu8BoKCxtj6xepzaseBigkirzIuUMHKmQmvrBsPZF_pM1O7UwBXLZAJlzAlf5vCPJyZwRrYUVYPiKFbZv4pMCqKVtlmBFjvQsS2s4Xn3u3k/s360/cindy+usayi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLlvRnoKIXRfpzw60nTQwym8QDW_f-Wm9Nfu8BoKCxtj6xepzaseBigkirzIuUMHKmQmvrBsPZF_pM1O7UwBXLZAJlzAlf5vCPJyZwRrYUVYPiKFbZv4pMCqKVtlmBFjvQsS2s4Xn3u3k/w334-h400/cindy+usayi.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">YOUNG AND PROLIFIC WRITER
NOTHANDO CINDY USAYI has done it again. She is already writing and publishing
her new project </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">Sins of The Soul Book Series.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Last
year, she published her debut fiction titled<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Dreams Under The Noonday Sun<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></i>available
on Amazon.com. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmClNZr-06P0GVtZlgChPQ2ojrUBkoKzAk45PucvZnbQ0cxZr0pa5tpf6upD1kGYw94Uo-qHbxYX7z2blTfACW9NF1u1GipEJAZBrRtOlKNHOokDqbT75B9R1VH8ajIK-fWz6RMDVaL7s/s500/41t0lczqugL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="314" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmClNZr-06P0GVtZlgChPQ2ojrUBkoKzAk45PucvZnbQ0cxZr0pa5tpf6upD1kGYw94Uo-qHbxYX7z2blTfACW9NF1u1GipEJAZBrRtOlKNHOokDqbT75B9R1VH8ajIK-fWz6RMDVaL7s/s320/41t0lczqugL.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nothando
told <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winzim Online</i>, “The series,
which began during one long afternoon walk, shall dive deeper into what it
truly means to be human.”</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">The
first instalment of </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 1cm;">Sins of the Soul </i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">is
already available on </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sins-Soul-Begin-Book-ebook/dp/B08NP1PXJZ" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amazon.com</b>.</a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> Having
had the chance to read the Book One, </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 1cm;">Winzim
Online</i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;"> can report that Nothando is an unusually gifted writer as most of
her themes also challenge adult readers to think. This first instalment
launches one on a journey of suspenseful mystery, crime and the reader gets
attached to the different youthful characters in the story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unlike
the first novel which envelopes you in a fantastic world, Sins<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> of the Soul</i> series is exactly what its
author says - a reflection of ‘what it truly means to be human’.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">PLAYWRIGHT BAYA PUBLISHES NOVEL <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt79uUQebHdmkGpxrC84VFyPQa0FBvVKhONP8akiHrErax4Q8tljkb7C8FxzHeBxIR4x1NuElXx7-L5NnHXp3ZScjCf7T0JfgN67q4f0Wx-_LQhmC-Y_4YwHDVhkq7aG1MHl0ZWGLlOvM/s537/Raisedon-Baya-book+COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt79uUQebHdmkGpxrC84VFyPQa0FBvVKhONP8akiHrErax4Q8tljkb7C8FxzHeBxIR4x1NuElXx7-L5NnHXp3ZScjCf7T0JfgN67q4f0Wx-_LQhmC-Y_4YwHDVhkq7aG1MHl0ZWGLlOvM/w298-h400/Raisedon-Baya-book+COVER.jpg" width="298" /></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">“Ever since I started writing, I always knew the end game; the ultimate
writing projects would be novels. I grew up reading a lot and always told
myself I would also contribute to literature one day. So, I started with short
stories, then moved to plays and films, but the ultimate destination was always
the novel form because of the challenge it offers,” said Baya. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">(The Chronicle)</span></i></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">READ MORE</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/playwright-baya-pens-debut-novel/#:~:text=Renowned%20playwright%20Raisedon%20Baya%20has,will%20be%20released%20this%20month." target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">THE YOUTH PERSPECTIVE</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-eFXEVl0qreDH0qrVtL8aZW33qRLAuY4BwaaTEeY6D3AskxNDwWfLsfLJ_cVlPZHlZKWhL6sp6pYjm8swHgeaqqoJ2FKVqwHFoegeGAMDIXkXiF_dkwRdoqLH6AuoT_ameFVmYJNRNWA/s504/mimi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="345" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-eFXEVl0qreDH0qrVtL8aZW33qRLAuY4BwaaTEeY6D3AskxNDwWfLsfLJ_cVlPZHlZKWhL6sp6pYjm8swHgeaqqoJ2FKVqwHFoegeGAMDIXkXiF_dkwRdoqLH6AuoT_ameFVmYJNRNWA/w274-h400/mimi.jpg" width="274" /></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Mimi
Machakaire</span></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am An
African!</span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">What does it mean to be an African? Some say that to be African means to
be an individual but one that forms part of a whole. It means to celebrate our
diversity in a way that promotes understanding and to focus on the challenges
facing our continent. This definition may also refer to: Anything or anyone
from or pertaining to the continent of Africa, people who are native to Africa,
descendants of natives of Africa, or in other words, individuals who trace
their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa, ethnic groups of Africa, African
diaspora and the like.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, one can spend a lot of time researching what it means to be an
African or what Africa means to the people who are living there but the
internet and other forms of media may not directly capture the true heart of
the people of Africa or Africa as a whole. For example, I am an African. I was
originally born in Zimbabwe but lived in so many different countries in Africa,
such as Namibia, Botswana and Lesotho just to list a few. Therefore, to me
being an African means, a whole lot more than simply reciting a dictionary
definition one can find anywhere. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We as Africans have experienced so much hardship and so much pain from
slavery, Political upheaval, racism and more, yet we not only value the lessons
we were taught from our elders and our ancestors but also we treat those around
us with respect and dignity despite what has happened in the past. Most of us
chose the path of forgiveness while keeping our minds educated and all-knowing
of the world around us. It is rare to find a lazy African. Majority are the
most hardworking people I know and will find different ways to achieve their
goal with or without the help of others.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have never asked why I am proud to be African but as I look around, I
see the unmatched natural beauty of Africa. As Africans we know how to grow and
nurture our land while maintaining its natural beauty. We do not believe in
destroying what God has provided us but rather we understand and keep it in our
best interest to preserve the natural resources we have discovered over the
years since our existence. Not only that, but in the most difficult times some
of us have remained honest, humble and friendly. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lastly, I have this left to say. We may have experienced a lot since the
beginning of time, as Africans but we must never forget where we came from and
where we are going or lose the hope of a brighter future for us all. We are
Africans and as always, we should feel proud despite the challenges we may
endure. I am an African and I am proud… </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am black,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am bold,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am brave.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am strong.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know where I belong.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am love.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am hope.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am an African!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I live freely.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I live honestly.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I live knowing my family,
my roots.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I write my words.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I write my soul.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I write my heart.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I write my art.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My art says,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am an African!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I travel.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I see all!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear and listen.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I pray.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I eat.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I learn.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am an African!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I fear.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I blink.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Life is so quick.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I move.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I dance.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I stand tall!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I brave it all!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am an African!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">MUCHURI’S NOVEL ‘ZVAVANHU HEREVO’ </span></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">COMING </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">SOON!</span></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By Chenjerai Mhondera<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYDnpzJxsufLjNmIBnr2Sh3JKtUIcI5A8JT1sJtmkvU28TtuJHpXCWJCGSkPLKONSw4xCpM0EJ2p_kKVtjDeNH1YGETvMcRYWwyKTtxnXCuVuZorowHhRs2Qig0RLpomvTm5gniFBTc4/s666/cover+of+Zvavanhu+Herevo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="478" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYDnpzJxsufLjNmIBnr2Sh3JKtUIcI5A8JT1sJtmkvU28TtuJHpXCWJCGSkPLKONSw4xCpM0EJ2p_kKVtjDeNH1YGETvMcRYWwyKTtxnXCuVuZorowHhRs2Qig0RLpomvTm5gniFBTc4/w288-h400/cover+of+Zvavanhu+Herevo.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Tinashe Muchuri is set to
release his second novel </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Zvavanhu Herevo</i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">
in Harare in the first quarter of 2021. The multi-award winning journalist,
poet, critic and novelist is revered for his undisputed antics and mastery in
Shona as displayed in his debut Shona novel, </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Chibarabada</i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"> (2015).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvavanhu Herevo</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> will be his second novel which was initially set for release sometime
around mid-year of 2020 but due to the lockdown, the date was pushed further to
become part of a special early 2021 gift for book lovers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Muchuri says that the book also
preserves the dignity of our local languages. He respects Shona dialects and
does not labour to standardize Shona. In his writing, Muchuri goes as deep as
to identify with the Karanga dialect of Zaka. The Karanga dialect of Shona is
sweet and seems so deep to those hearing or reading it for the first time. Ndau
words are pasted here and there as the novelist tracks his roots down to
Chirinda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I am writing in 'deep'
native languages, not only to preserve the languages from getting extinct, but
also to share with and/or reach out to the audience (people) some profound
knowledge."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his story, the veteran
artist makes it a close encounter with the character Alec's explicit love and
sexual affairs with Hitekani, Soneni and others. It is nonetheless, the
novelist's thrust to delve into these explicit romantic affairs, but to reach
to audience with mature advice, on how to handle such affairs in the wake of
these pandemics like HIV and AIDS. In doing so, Muchuri does not blindly and directly
cast the advice. He instead, allows the characters to proffer such esteemed
advice, through their participation in the book. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Periods in the African
calendar, are always marked by historical events of the time. Such among them,
including droughts, elections, outbreak of pandemics and epidemics. Tinashe, is
not any departure from this. And it is in such African calendars, that such
captivating chronicles, do not show any gaps when it comes to relations and
family setups among Shona communities. It is such strong Afrocentricism that
makes the book, have no reference among Eurocentric or Western literature. The
characterization, was made possible even with some characters not explicitly
named, as John or Liam, for instance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Current affairs, involving
unemployment, mysteries and spiritualism, witchcraft and exorcism are not
spared in Zvavanhu Herevo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;">MABHUKU
EDU</span></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaDztP6lXkOhGHqBeTCEB4sn4MFh9JAoE0xmjhsK90sSgyZMfzjyyKDkrGuSekj9J9dc1m6mkuBYtMxw8fnr-pC79ur03AA7lb4NfDm_sA79F_V9VVbY2-lALfZbpTSPqG2jj2xMRWX0/s552/prosper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="497" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaDztP6lXkOhGHqBeTCEB4sn4MFh9JAoE0xmjhsK90sSgyZMfzjyyKDkrGuSekj9J9dc1m6mkuBYtMxw8fnr-pC79ur03AA7lb4NfDm_sA79F_V9VVbY2-lALfZbpTSPqG2jj2xMRWX0/s320/prosper.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Na Prosper Njeke</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Makadii vaverengi pamwe nevanyori.Titende iye Musiki wedu
anotipa njere dzekunyora uye anotichengeta panyika. Hezvi tave mune rimwe gore
idzva tiri vapenyu – tichingonyora nemiwo muchingorava zvinyorwa zvedu. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sezvo pakurava kwedu tichisangana
nezvinyorwa zvakasiyana-siyana, muchikamu chino ndauya nechimwe chidzidzo
chekumbokuonesaiwo kuti chii chinonzi <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">munyori</b>,
chii chinonzi <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">chinyorwa</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>uye chii chinonzi <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bhuku</b>. Vazhinji vanoverenga nyayanyorwa dzakasiyana-siyana dzinobva
nepadandemutande, idzo dzakanyorwa nevanyori vakasiyana. Zvino nokuda kwekuti
aona kuti chinyorwa ichi inyaya yakanyorwa nanhengi uye inofadza chose anenge ave
kutoti ibhuku. Bhuku nechinyorwa zvakasiyana. Chiregai tionesane zvizere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ini ndinoti munyori, muoni, mufungi uye
munhu asingazivi, asi anopiwa zivo nevanhu vasingazivi kuti agopawo zivo iyoyo
kuvanhu vasingazivi. Zvarevei? Zvareva kuti munyori munhu ashanda nezvaanoona
nemeso ake, oisa mufungo wake pane zvaanoona izvozvo, zvekare anotamba nevanhu
achiudzwa zvinhu zvinoitika muraramo dzevanhu iye ozochizvibatanidza ozviisa
pamwe muchinyorwa nemutauro wakatsetseka uyo unobva parurimi rwaanonzwisisa
kana kuti rwaada hake. Ndichitaura naVaMuchuri vakati, “munyori mutsvakurudzi,
muvezi uye muumbi wemazwi.” Kureva kuti munyori munhu anotsvakurudza zvizhinji
muvanhu uye achiunza mazwi matsva pakunyora kwake. Uyu ndiye anonzi munyori.
Vamwewo vanyori vemazuvano vave kuzviti vanyori havo asi havaiti tsvakurudzo.
Havana kana pfungwa itsva yavanounza muzvinyorwa zvavo, vanotora pfungwa
dzakambobuditswa mumabhuku akanyorwawo kare nevamwe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chinonzi chinyorwa, ndechinhu chose
chakatarwa pangava pabepa rinobatika nemaoko kana kuti kushanda kwenhare kana
makombiyuta. Apa panopinda zvizhinji ingava tsambambozha, kana tsamba dziya
dzainyorwa pabepa kusati kwakurumbira dzinharembozha uye marondedzero anonyorwa
nevana kuchikoro. Zvose izvi zvinyorwa. Izvi zvinodudza kuti munhu wese
akambotsika mukova wechikoro kana achigona kutaura achishandisa mazwi anotonzi
munyori, ukaona pakanyorwa unogona kutobvunza kuti ndiyani anyora apa? Iyeye
anyora, munyori.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chinonzi bhuku, chinyorwa chakanyorwa
neingi chinobatika muruoko uye chiine National Registration Number inozivakanwa
nekuti ISBN, rochidhindwa riine ISBN iyoyo ndiko kunzi bhuku. Izvi
hatingazvifananidza nezvinyorwa zvizhinji zvakurumbira mazuvano, izvo zvinobva
kune vanozivikanwa nekunzi Online Authors, vaya vanonyorwa zvinyorwa zvavo,
votanga kuzvitengesa zviri maSoft Copy pangava paFacebook kana paWhatsApp.
Iroro harisi bhuku asi chinongori chinyorwa zvacho. Kushaikwa kweISBN
pazvinyorwa zvavo hakuvadzivisi kuti vanzi “vanyori,” kwete, vanotori vanyori,
asi hazvigoni kuti vanzi “vanyori vemabhuku,” nekuti zvavanonyora haasi
mabhuku, asi zvingoriwo zvinyorwa hazvo. Kunyangwe vakaita mari yakawanda
zvakadii kana kuita mukurumbira wakadii, asi zvavanonyora haasi mabhuku uye
havanzi vanyori vemabhuku. Dzavanonyora inyaya, asi kwete bhuku. Kuti vazonzi
“vanyori vemabhuku” hunge vatsikisa zvinyorwa zvavo zvova neISBN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chimwe chinyorwa chinogona kunge
chakanyorwa neingi uye chichitobatika muruoko, asi kana chisati chave neISBN
chinyorwa ichocho hachigoni kunzi bhuku, chichiri chinyorwa zvacho asi harisi
bhuku.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dzimwe nguva chinyorwa chinogona
kutenge chatengerwa ISBN, asi kana chisati chadhindwa kubatwa muruoko, harisati
riri bhuku, nekuti dzimwe nguva unogona kungorasikirwa nacho, nekuda
kwezvikonzero zvakaita sematenda anosakiswa nehutachiona hunobata makombiyuta
aya akaita sanaTrojan Horse, Worm, Time Bomb, logic Bomb nemamwewo, kana kuti
nhare kana kombiyuta ine chinyorwa ichocho yafa kana kubiwa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">VOICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS</span></span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8oD3Fp4CHy-rCcCC_beibACCxCj3lXp0Vp8g8asKuMbMpukPbe13Kanpa2neoW5JuN0p3fc_H6-KUfAs-NyHcHDX6DJJv7_B7ollVylhkaMahlJ810sflscIgxI1U1vHLTDB2FbQHJfo/s534/kavenga+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8oD3Fp4CHy-rCcCC_beibACCxCj3lXp0Vp8g8asKuMbMpukPbe13Kanpa2neoW5JuN0p3fc_H6-KUfAs-NyHcHDX6DJJv7_B7ollVylhkaMahlJ810sflscIgxI1U1vHLTDB2FbQHJfo/s320/kavenga+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Simbarashe
Clever Kavenga</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Talk <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> o</span>f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keaven Simomondo in the Arts Industry</span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAXPcfDLC3xjHs5M-Qfj8OdevJeIVqbGh5eFoMs_RnnKJ6BLc7JJBWPKNY9H8QDBtMeb99FXmMvWRR_4T1v7qmP4T8_KciUiobbc6RgiCYwgH8OxBYBPNM18IQn7iMvm5cUMey1dnmZFQ/s540/simomondo2+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="368" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAXPcfDLC3xjHs5M-Qfj8OdevJeIVqbGh5eFoMs_RnnKJ6BLc7JJBWPKNY9H8QDBtMeb99FXmMvWRR_4T1v7qmP4T8_KciUiobbc6RgiCYwgH8OxBYBPNM18IQn7iMvm5cUMey1dnmZFQ/w273-h400/simomondo2+%25281%2529.jpg" width="273" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Keaven
Simomondo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">When talking about the arts
in Mutare, there are certain artists you hardly miss. Their names are like
artistic sign posts to the creative fields of wonder. Yes, we have some artists
who have been in the industry but their names are now buried under the dust of the shifting sands of time. Yet other names keep on shining like a beacon giving
hope to new arrivals, and that’s exactly what Keaven Simomondo is like to
artists in Mutare, the city of flowers and beauty where hope never dies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When I
settled in Mutare in the early years of the new millennium, coming from Harare
the so-called citadel of art, Mr Simomondo was one of the first writers I met.
The other was the late former national Chairperson of BWAZ, Joseph Mwandiringa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The late Mr Ruswa who was then the National Arts
Council manager for Manicaland introduced me to Simomondo. By then he was
housed at the National Arts Council offices as an arts coordinator for the ‘Mutare-Haarlem
City Link’. Haarlem city of the Netherlands is twinned with our city of Mutare.
Artists here have benefitted from this friendship between the two cities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Simomondo
is a spoken word poet born and bred in Mutare. As a child he grew up in
Dangamvura suburb where he went to Rujeko Primary School and then did his high
schooling at Dangamvura High. Currently, he is resident in Hobhouse suburb
where he lives with his family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is
William Shakespeare who once said some people are born great, some achieve
greatness and yet others are born with greatness thrust upon them. It is true
Simomondo was born with artistic blood flowing in his veins. From primary
school he was in the Marimba and Choir groups and he didn’t shift focus when he
crossed over to secondary school where he joined the Marimba and Debate clubs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After
his O' Level Simomondo heard his artistic voice calling him home and without
hesitation he joined Siyakha Theatre Of Energy Collective Group. He says he
learnt quiet a lot from the directorship of the now late Mr Elisha Ndumiyana
who honed his poetry, drama and dancing skills at Siyakha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Simomondo
was born blessed with supportive parents. Very few parents support their
children's dreams in the arts because they want their kids to follow the dreams
they dream for them. Simomondo says he remembers the first toy his parents
bought him was a guitar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people
choose the arts but as for him, it was vice versa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today,
as a man who has been in the arts field for some time now, his motto is ― 'Keep
focussed, no matter how hard, it is the eye that scales the height but the will
goes all the way up.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His day starts around three o'clock in the
morning. He says he starts with meditating and that feels it lovely and
welcoming talking to the greatest artist of all the time, God the Creator in
the silence of hope-pregnant morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Writing comes naturally to him regardless of time and place, so he
always keeps a notepad and a pen. His phone is also handy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I asked
Simomondo why is it that he has been a spoken word poet for some time now yet we
hardly read his poetry in print. I gave him an example of Albert Nyathi, also a
spoken word poet, who publishes his works in books. Nyathi’s books like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare My Son</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Daughter</i> come to mind. He co-authored
one of these books with Ignatius Mabasa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his
defence Simomondo said, “I plan to publish for the sake of getting my works in
print otherwise I'm at home with spoken word only. And remember that the number
of readers is dwindling everyday unlike yesteryears.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">His cry
of distress is that these days very few people read for leisure. Learners read
only for the purpose of passing their examinations and when they are done, no more
reading of books. Yes it pains on hearing this but that's the naked truth with
its mud and warts. This is the tragedy unfolding before our eyes. The good old
days when you could meet people discussing a novel they have read are now
swallowed in the mist of time. Our golden years in the book sector are now in
the distant past. But should we surrender as authors? My own answer to this is
a big NO. Yes reading should start with you and I and reading should start with
us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us all
not lose hope in the arts field, maybe one fine day people may want to read in
the comfort of their homes that same poem they heard being recited at a public
forum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">NGATINYOREYI</span><o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgss1d7lqYwPAxopCSc3ERnAiU53oeCS-Zktjxu2_HRC4FE0NY0Y4jXd7OlVc12OqcnyI1obeQgR6hT5-yT5jjVzTzcyNBPE0Bsct51zd12Sx7cMxu8LqRMiMhCq8urNiqJKxJY5HOfAEk/s320/tinashe+muchuri.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgss1d7lqYwPAxopCSc3ERnAiU53oeCS-Zktjxu2_HRC4FE0NY0Y4jXd7OlVc12OqcnyI1obeQgR6hT5-yT5jjVzTzcyNBPE0Bsct51zd12Sx7cMxu8LqRMiMhCq8urNiqJKxJY5HOfAEk/s0/tinashe+muchuri.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Na Tinashe Muchuri</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tisangane zvakare mumwaka weCOVID-19. Hazvina kuipa
kutevedzera zvinodiwa zvacho kuti tisawanikwa tichiparadzira chirwere
ichi.Pfeka chisekete chako. Geza maoko kwemasekondi makumi maviri, kupfeke chisekete
chinovhara muromo nemhino, kutaraukira kure semabagwe emataranganwa. Kuchengeta
vutano idonzvo rakanaka. Nokudaro, kunoitira nyika zvakanaka.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ngatinyorei vanyori zvinyorwa zvakanangana nekuvhura
meso avanhu. Zvokwadi, pasina zivo hapana kurarama. Pasina zivo pane rufu.
Sevanyori ngatitsvakei zivo tidurure zivo iyi. Iyo zivo iyi ndiyovo
yototambidza kuvaravi vedu. Munyori mutsvakurudzi, tsvakurudza udurure zivo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Muchikamu chino toda kunyora nezvemunyori
semutsvakurudzi. Nyaya hombe yauya maererano nekuti pane zvimwe zvirevo
zvatinoshandisa zvinokondora vamwe mukurarama kwedu. Izvi zvinobva nekusada
kufambirana nenguva kwave kukanganwa kuti vazivi vekare vakatisiira uchenjeri
hunoti kare haagari ari kare. Zvakare zvakaipa zvinosiiwa kuchitorwa zvitsva
zvinoindirana nenguva yazvino.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kune tsumo dzimwe dzisisaiti kushandisa mumukore uno
watave, mukore wekugadzirisa ugaro hwakanaka pakati pevanhu munyika nepasi
rose. Zvakakosha zvikuru kuti pakunyora pedu sevanyori tisatsika zvigunwe
zvavamwe. Vanhu vanowanzotsikwa zvigunwe nguva zhinji ndivo vanhu vakaremara
pamwe nevanhukadzi. Zvisinei hazvo chikamu chino chichanangana nezvirevo
zvinokondora vanhu vakaremara. Vanhukadzi tichavabata muchikamu chinotevera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unoona munyori achipa muenzaniso wekuti, 'kunyarara
sechimumu' - iye zvino tinoziva isu kuti kwave nemutauro wekushandisa
zviratidzo (sign language). Uyu mutauro, utori mutauro unowanikwa pakati
pemitauro inozivikanwa uye ichibvumirwa kutaurwa pamutemo nebumbiro remitemo
renyika yeZimbabwe. Zvino panonzi chimumumu hachitauri unoshaya kuti izvi zvave
kubva papi. Chimumumu kureva kusataura mazwi anonzwikwa nenzeve asi anonzwikwa
nemeso. Asi takatoona kuti icho chainzi chimummuu hachizi nekuti munhu uyu
anotaura nezviratidzo, ane mutauro. Zvoreva kuti fananidzo iyi haichashandi
yakatosiiwa nenguva.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hanzi mapofu haatungamirirani! Vamwe vachiti mapofu
haatungamirirani. Ukatarira munharaunda unotoona vanhu vanonzi mapofu vaine
zivo zhinji yavanopakurira vamwe vari vadzidzisi, vamwe magweta uye mamwe
mabasa akasiyana. Vamwe vanenge vari vatungamiri mumabasa umu. Zvino panozonzi
mapofu hatungamirani kana kutungamira vamwe ndepapi? Ivava vanhu vanoona
nenzira yechimuti chavanoshandisa chichena, maoko avo uye kushandisa nzeve
dzavo. Vanotofamba vega mumigwagwa vasingasangani netsaona, woshaya kuziva kuti
sei vachinzi havagoni kutungamirirana kana kutungamira vamwe vanhu. Zvinobvepi?
Sevanyori zvimwe zvezvinhu zvatinoti ndizvo izvo hazvisisiri. Zvinoreva kuti
tiri kusara shure nenguva, tichishandisa zvakasara nenguva.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vamwe unonzwa vachiti handidi kuitirwa zvepfari kana
kuti usaita semunhu ane pfari. Izvi zvinhu zvinokanganisa vaya vane urema uhwu.
Dambudziko remunyori kukondora vamwe, zvino, paya pacharaviwa chinyorwa, ivo
vari pakati pevaravi, vanonzwa sei, ko ivo avo vari pedyo navo vachati kudii?
Ibasa remunyori kunyora zvakanaka zvinovaka ugaro hwakanaka muupenyu hwavanhu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vamwe voti zvinorwadza semudzimu wabata pambeveve. Ko
mudzimu wababa zvaunouya woga usingatengwi, waipei kuuya hawo pamunhu anotaura
mutauro wezviratidzo? Kukondora vamwe’ka uku! Tinokondororanirei nhai vanyori?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Izvi ndizvo zvinonetsa kunyange vapepeti pazvinyorwa.
Ndangoti nditi nyesvurei zvimwe zvirevo zvisisisina basa, zvasara nenguva uye
zvisisaiti kuti tirambe tichizvishandisa sevanyori mukuitira kuti zvinyorwa
zvedu zvisakondora vamwe mukurarama. Izvi zvirevo zvasara nenguva. Munyori
fambirana nenguva. Munyori usamira kutsvakurudza. Tsvakurudza, zuva nezuva
ufambirane nenguva.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kusvika tasangana zvekare tichitaura nezvezvimwe
zvirevo nefananidzo dzinomonya vanhukadzi, ngatinyoreyi zvinyorwa zvedu
zvisingakondori varavi vedu asi zvichivaka ugaro hwakanaka. Tisakanganwa
chenjedzo yeCOVID-19. Garai muhutano. Chengetedzai hutano hwedu nehwevamwe.
Dzamara tisangane zvekare.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ZIMBABWE</span><o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYznfXStMtOEqBwn-WGZzKIt3bLXOHdIhhUIOfbIYRRr3glUe__J1wxS24ZObWMOOaedzv-coBTkR53NGahfdh23xhBm2mUY9i4CJMcQEHMNgIk46fKklZLz3mQrlaE80a7JwleglJQo/s249/kaposa2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYznfXStMtOEqBwn-WGZzKIt3bLXOHdIhhUIOfbIYRRr3glUe__J1wxS24ZObWMOOaedzv-coBTkR53NGahfdh23xhBm2mUY9i4CJMcQEHMNgIk46fKklZLz3mQrlaE80a7JwleglJQo/s0/kaposa2.jpg" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Aleck
Kaposa</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Big Jo Goes To The Hospital</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Big
Jo lived alone in his dome-shaped grass hut at the edge of Kenzi village. The
hut looked like a small mountain and had a large opening for a door and an
anthill-clay floor polished with fresh cow dung every week.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;">Big
Jo was the tallest and the biggest man in the whole village. He towered above
everyone else like a gum tree among small bushes. The head on his shoulders was
as big as a pumpkin and his hands were as thick as the branches of a muhacha
tree. His breathing was as loud as a whirlwind. Despite his massive frame and
fearsome look, Big Jo never fought with anyone and was friendly to people
especially children.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“All
the children are my friends,” he would say at the borehole, smiling. “Let them
fetch water ahead of me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sometimes
Big Jo went about the village talking loudly himself with children following
behind. “I am as big as an elephant!” he would boast as he carried a big metal
drum full of water from the borehole back to his hut. “I can uproot a baobab
tree with my hands.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7_5TQ0McbS1FPy-0Z0INQKElB5yH-R5EfFGtGVvw0_iNpM20FdDuo5Jwu5zHzbOwO7TL5b9zG8FkXHn1FiQsItEw4DzXzM_Hxotx0h9iBKq0qJoUpk9REpVnPDyUmsKCkbK55VFmfAE/s414/big+joe.png" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7_5TQ0McbS1FPy-0Z0INQKElB5yH-R5EfFGtGVvw0_iNpM20FdDuo5Jwu5zHzbOwO7TL5b9zG8FkXHn1FiQsItEw4DzXzM_Hxotx0h9iBKq0qJoUpk9REpVnPDyUmsKCkbK55VFmfAE/s320/big+joe.png" width="320" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Big Jo’s dome-shaped hut<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">“Go,
Big Jo, go!” the village children would cry out, following behind him as if
they were his disciples.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’m
Big Jo. I’m not afraid of lions or leopards or even the dark.” he would
continue as the children egged him on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">One
day, Big Jo fell sick and started to sweat and to wheeze. He would not eat
anything. He just sat quietly outside his hut with his eyes to the ground, his
hands on his head. The villagers brought him food but he refused to eat. The
village headman said that is what he always did when he was sick. He always
refused to go to the hospital because he was afraid of injections from the time
he was a young boy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Please
don’t take me to the hospital!” Big Jo pleaded with a thin voice. “They will
pierce my body with those long, sharp and painful needles.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On
the third day of his sickness, Big Jo was now weak and could hardly stand up on
his own. He just lay on a reed mat outside his hut, whimpering. The village
headman ordered a dozen strong young men to tie his hands and legs with a rope
and put him in a scotch cart drawn by donkeys and take him to the hospital. Big
Jo caused the strong young men a lot of trouble as they tied him up. Finally
they loaded him onto the scotch cart and took him to the hospital. As the scotch
cart went through the village, past the borehole, the grinding mill, the
rolling green maize, rapoko and sorghum fields and down Mashonga valley, Big Jo
still whimpered and pitifully begged to be let free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally,
they reached the hospital at Nyabira Business Centre. The strong young men
lifted him from the scotch cart and carried him into the hospital on a
stretcher and he was immediately admitted. In the ward, the nurses had to put
together three beds for him to lie on. He was diagnosed with COVID-19. The
doctor ordered the nurses to administer two injections at once whilst he was
still tied with ropes. Big Jo cried like a baby, but there was nothing he could
do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“He
shall be well soon.” the doctor said. “Leave him here and we’ll treat him till
he is well.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
strong young men rode the scotch cart back to the village, joking about how
much trouble they had had with Big Jo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WINZIM ONLINE INTERVIEWS WRITER FANUEL </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WANDAYI</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTP1CdnRHW5c3W55mx6GVxAlqEtHaNe0Ajr-JL5JcH8ymB3QXv0qhpCnY4v6GjRpbs6Vpu6kOTzU_Ss87CZElOX02yccw_f5dN1H2EFL_ReZoxjvUOyrApLzhEB3SYKDEQpZCbldB2vg/s1080/mr+wandayi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="933" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTP1CdnRHW5c3W55mx6GVxAlqEtHaNe0Ajr-JL5JcH8ymB3QXv0qhpCnY4v6GjRpbs6Vpu6kOTzU_Ss87CZElOX02yccw_f5dN1H2EFL_ReZoxjvUOyrApLzhEB3SYKDEQpZCbldB2vg/s320/mr+wandayi.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Fanuel Wandayi</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PE19F-vmOwWwRygfy7nolFZA3Ehntwe-9wTEYqJOvqgKNByjmnDYOfufyIU1RsvsLG1VTq8IwhaDR4H8Ac0FRxWta1ctavD1_4LF7b3hW49GJRlihaN6TUJWg9OZOBYsCfX6gy93F6o/s620/cover+of+Joti+neketani+-+Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="432" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PE19F-vmOwWwRygfy7nolFZA3Ehntwe-9wTEYqJOvqgKNByjmnDYOfufyIU1RsvsLG1VTq8IwhaDR4H8Ac0FRxWta1ctavD1_4LF7b3hW49GJRlihaN6TUJWg9OZOBYsCfX6gy93F6o/s320/cover+of+Joti+neketani+-+Copy.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Front cover of Wandayi's forthcoming novel</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who is Fanwell Wandayi?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I’m a marketer by virtue of
being a holder of a Bcom Marketing Management Degree from the Midlands State
University. I also engage in part-time consultancy work for start-ups and
part-time writing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tell us a little bit about your second novel</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The book is a Shona novel
entitled Joti neKetani. The title when translated into English literally means
Shackles and Chains. It is fiction based on slave trading in Zimbabwe, the
participation of local chiefs in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the effects
of this dark chapter in the history of black people. The book has generated
lots of interest from fellow writers particularly from the WinZim and The
Sailors Club online platforms. I think this is because the book could be the
first of its kind to touch on the issue. So I can say it is unique. There are
questions of course on the factual side of this story and my answer is, the
book is a product of research.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">In the
story, a local chief's son is among those captured and sold into slavery.
Although he manages to escape and return back to his people to try and set them
free he discovers that ahead of him lies a mammoth task as most of his people
now identify themselves with their captors and are even prepared to fight and
defend them. The book is unputdownable, a thriller. The book has since gone
through the initial editing done by the publisher and I have gone through the
draft copy myself so I can safely say work on the book is almost complete now.
The publisher is now doing the final touches sprucing it up for the market and if
all goes according to plan it should be out soon after the lockdown. The
initial arrangement was to have it published by January this year but we had to
reschedule to counter production and distribution challenges emanating from the
national lockdown. We did not want a situation where the book is published but
it’s nowhere to be found on the market thereby frustrating our fans, a
situation called vapourware in business language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Which themes are you
interested in?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Poverty, politics and some
bit of romance. I identify myself with the poor and so writing about their
suffering comes naturally to me. And of course politics and romance because of
their profound effect on our daily lives, the two are irresistible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">How has the first book fared
so far?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The book established me as
a writer and a name to talk about in the industry but we have had challenges on
the distribution side. The publisher relocated from Harare to Kotwa and then
there was Covid-19 and the national lockdown. So currently we are sitting on a
large number of unmet orders but I hope we will be able to make them good as
soon as the storm is over. Hopefully my new book will help sustain interest on
the first one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Where can readers find the
books?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Those who want to place
orders for my first book Ndaiti Ndinotewo can contact Lawnic Publishing House
on the following numbers: 0773 035 537/0733 895 244/0782 595 861. For those who
would want to order Joti neKetani when it finally hits the shelves, if you
happen to find yourself in Bulawayo or live in the city just visit my
publisher, Progressive Booksellers and Publishers at Unit 1, Riverking Business
Park, S Wallasey Rd, Donnington or contact them on 0775 071 268. Readers can
also contact me directly for both books on the following numbers: 0773 674 057
(calls only), 0718 846 504 (whatsapp only)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What's your opinion about
the future of Shona language?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">That's a very good
question. I think the coming in of the new curriculum brought about changes to
Shona as a subject which I feel will impact negatively on the language. The
subject was split into two namely Shona language and literature in Shona. Now
if you move around you are going to discover that very few schools are offering
the latter and this I think has destroyed the reading culture especially of
Shona novels and poetry books. But these are the very sources from which the
coming generations may enrich their language. I think there is need for a
review of the new curriculum with regards Shona and if possible revert to the
old set up where the two were combined to make one subject. Then we also have a
new generation of writers whose style of mixing Shona and English is currently
trending on social media. I have read some of their books and I think most of
them are talented but let me be honest with you here, I don’t think this
concoction that they are currently serving to their followers/readers is good
for the Shona language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why do you choose the novel
form and why not other forms?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I have novels only to my
name at the moment but I’m also into poetry and short stories. As I speak, I am
working with Louis Chihata, a Zimbabwean radiographer and writer based in
Ireland, on a short story anthology which should be out by year end or early
next year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">BOOK REVIEW</span><o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">By
Tendai Chinhoro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Author: Tawanda Chigavazira<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Genre: Detective<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Language: Shona<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ISBN: 9781779251268<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Watsika Rufuse</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> is a Shona story about
Gangauswa, shortened as Gange: a young criminal based in Norton who brutally
murders his former teacher, Chatambudza. While he thinks he has succeeded in
avoiding custodial sentence through Bhunu; his cunning lawyer, Gange finds it
difficult to evade the tormenting spirit of his victim. The psychological
torture he goes through at the hands of Chatambudza's avenging spirit is therefore
the one that is likened to the anguish that one goes through upon stepping over
smoldering hot ashes with bare feet (kutsika rufuse).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The African cosmos has
always seen the human being as a whole. Even after death, burial of the mortal
body does not signify the end of the being. To an African, death is just an
elevation of someone to the upper chamber of life, from which one will be part
of those still living on earth (lower chamber). The upper chamber which
represents spiritual living is a more powerful force that can direct the course
of life to those physically living on earth. This is the same way a person who
died through brutal murder like Chatambudza can still take things in his own
hands to see justice prevailing. However, those who have joined the spiritual
world owe something to the living in order for them to execute some of their
duties. And, thus, we see Chatambudza's family going through all the processes
of bringing his spirit 'back in the home', a belief which culminates in the
brewing of the Kurova Guva beer, setting the pace for Chatambudza to start his
war of vengeance against his murderer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chigavazira brings to our
attention how as Africans we view mental illness in particular and mental
health in general. Gange is mentally ill but nobody cares about taking him to
the hospital, including the police officers at the station where he camps under
the influence of Chatambudza's spirit. Rather, they all agree to alert his
family so that he can be taken home not to the hospital. This demonstrates that
while Africans in general and Zimbabweans in particular have converted to other
religions like Christianity through various church organizations they always
have a subtle belief that there is an African spiritualty/Chivanhu which
governs their universe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The African lukewarm
acceptance of the medical model and its emphasis on controlled diagnosis and
medication is always visible when it comes to mental health. To an African,
while a broken limb can be treated medically, a broken mind or spirit cannot.
Perhaps it is this ambivalence that has sustained much of the Indigenous
Knowledge Systems (IKS) and their practitioners in a society that has become
highly medicalised since the onset of European colonization. The only missing
link is the inculcation of certain health related IKS skills in the medically
oriented health personnel. All the same, even without this inculcation, some
medical health workers are known for giving advice to their clients to 'consult
the spiritual world' through subtle questions like 'makambofamba navo here.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The writer himself
perpetuates the strength in African spirituality by deliberately superimposing
it over the modern adversarial and evidence based court system. While the court
acquits Gange on grounds of the inadequacies in the evidence brought forward by
the State, the spiritual world convicts him on the ground of it being an 'eye'
witness. What the physical eye doesn't see, the spiritual eye will see
including that which happens in the darkest hour of the night. The nature of
Gange's illness is evidence beyond reasonable doubt that he is the murderer of
Chatambudza, while whatever the detectives and the State bring to the court is
thrown out as not substantial enough to convict Gange. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before he dies, Chatambudza
gets a glimpse of who his killer is and by this he makes his final glance with
the image of his murderer. Theories abound with how a person killing someone
should avoid eye contact with the dying person. The spirit of the dying person
will always remember the face of the last person that passes through its
optical field. However, as highlighted earlier, that will not be enough for
vengeance. The deceased still needs the living to remind him to revenge through
some rituals. In this case we see Chatambudza's father, Wazvaremhaka, verbally
making a recital at his son's grave, reminding him to start the war. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are many research
works in psychology and law focusing on what causes someone to become a
criminal. Are criminals products of nature or nurturing/socialization?
Chigavazira seems to be giving us some idea, though inconclusive. He is,
though, inadvertently selling the idea that criminals are born and that there
is always some telltale signs that someone is predisposed to criminality.
Gange's anti-social nature is evident early in life. The boy had a strong
disinterest in school and was a notorious thief in his neighbourhood. Through
his father, we, however, learn that, there is hardly a history of criminality
in the family and he struggles to see who his son resembles. If there is no
such history in the family, perhaps Gange was not born a criminal. If he was
born a criminal this will still nail the family, particularly the parents,
since biology tells us that we all owe a great deal of what we have from our parents.
Chigavazira does not tell us much about Gange's early social life especially
his circle of friends. Perhaps as he grew up he could possibly have had bad
influence through bad peer company. What the writer however seem to emphasize
though is the Freudian school that whatever behavior is not successfully
suppressed in childhood would be resident up to adulthood, and possibly
throughout one's life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While the story is set in
modern Mhondoro, Norton and Zvimba, the writer has a penchant to want to delve
much in the depths of spiritual world with the vehemence it had in the
pre-colonial Zimbabwe. While the gatekeepers of the African spirituality still
exist, one would wonder if it is still possible to come across a traditional
healer or spirit medium whose regalia would include hides of dead animals like
the lion or leopard, exuding supernatural power and pomp with the same
measure of sacredness that existed in the old world. The general belief is that
times have changed and though with some measure of spiritual power, modern day
spirituality practitioners have become a bit less charismatic. The use of
dreams, signs and wonders tells how much the writer desires his characters to
portray a metaphysical world, albeit in a 'spiritually broken' modern day Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This does not, however,
take away the existence of a story in the story of Gange. It is a well woven
literary piece which juxtaposes the paintings of modernity and ancient history
on the canvas of social deviance, the defects of the Roman- Dutch Law in the
African context and the spiritual realities of the Shona people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background: lime; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">FLASHBACK </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background: lime; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">TO </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background: lime; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">2020</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BRYONY RHEAM LAUNCHES SECOND NOVEL</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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Rheam autographing a copy of her new novel at a launch in Bulawayo</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Photo:
AmaBooks)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">"Bryony Rheam's second novel, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">All Come to Dust, </i><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">was launched</span><i style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> in Bulawayo in the garden of the Zimbabwe Academy of Music. There was a good turn out and the socially distanced audience gave the book an enthusiastic welcome. Luckily the rain held off. The scene was set by Bryony's youngest daughter, Ellie, playing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">The Wizard of Oz </i><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">features in the novel) on her violin.</span><i style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">Drew Shaw introduced Bryony and Mzana Mthimkhulu also spoke at the launch about Bryony's writing." </span></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read more about the launch and the book <span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;"><a href="http://amabooksbyo.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-launch-of-all-come-to-dust-in.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">TRIBUTES TO THE LATE GIFTED ACTOR </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LAZARUS </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BOORA</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Members of the Winzim
Superclassic Whatsapp Group last year were so moved by the passing of
Zimbabwe’s illustrious actor Lazarus Boora that the only way they could capture
their emotions and pay tribute to the great entertainer was through poetry. Boora died on</span> </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>November 9, 2020.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>May his soul rest in
peace.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zororai
Chirandu</span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Na Rumbidzai Olivia Mubirira</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Penyu makasakura mukapedza,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Makaratidza nyika kuti kwedu nyambo
tinodzigona,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nyika yaiti ikakuonai yaiseka,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Apo muri zii zvenyu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndaiti munopora muenderere mberi nebasa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndinokutendai Gono basa ramakabata,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chinoita misodzi iyerere isingagumi ishoko
rakazouya,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Musi wamaoneka rino pasi,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vadziwe vakandisvitsa shoko kuti wekwedu
waenda,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Handina kuzvitenda kuti muri weropa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndakatuka kupesana kwakaita madzibaba edu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kuzivana muviri wodzimba,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zvakadaro ndinoti zororai Moyo,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vavaraidzei ikoko kusvika tauya,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Matungamira inzira yedu tose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Munakachose<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Na Tamutswa Muzana Kundidzora<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vamwe vedu vakaita semunzwa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kugaro djwunga vapfuuri,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kusenekera mugumbo kusvika pakutumburwa
chave chiungu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kutozopomhodzwa nemoto gore rekutsva!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Munakandafa!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zita kugara rakatumba pamuromo yevanhu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mabvire nemakukutu achikandwa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Magaramoyo asingachazunguzi hana,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Akanaka kuzongoatambidzwa vanhu votya bvuri<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Munakandafa!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kuba!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kuuraya!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kubiridzira!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zvose kuti namata pauri sezvimbi zvejongwa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maoko kutozopfupika watandadza,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Munakandafa!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">WekwaRukweza wakazviramba,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wakava musetsi weZimbabwe,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Akabvuta mwoyo yenyika yose achiri kufema,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Asingazive Gringo ndiyani?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Munakakose!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nerwake rufu kupembedzwa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">VeNyaradzo vomusesekedza kunzvimbo yezororo
pachena,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vanhu ibesanwa kuwonekana naye,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Umwe neumwe achidonongodzo zvinozipa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kwete nekutya bvuri,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Asi kupupura kunaka!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Munakachose!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sekuru
Razaro</span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">NaNyambare F.J<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zvokwadi pasi hariguti imi munongoita kunzwa</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mubvunzo ndouno, seiko kuchienda vakanaka?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chokwadi kutisiira mhondi,mbavha nevaroyi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ini ndaitoda kuramba ndichikuonai sekuru
Razaro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nyika yose kuyambukira nemhiri,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yakatekeshera yekugona kwenyu mbiri,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maigara makatitekenyedza pamainetsana
naMadhumbe imi,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nemadyiro amaiita paya sekuru Razaro,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ko Mbudziyadhura zvaachafa hake
nemafizhongo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kufa kwenyu kwandirwadza ini Chirandu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ko iye Firimoni wamakavharira paya,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaaaah sekuru dzangova ndangariro imi
matisiya kare<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Makasiira ani chitsvambe zvino musati maenda?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ko iye akazokutii Gringo,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaaa basa ndiye akatiparira<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Paya makahusvuura hwahwa hwamusina kana
kutenga<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Matirikisi enyu akapotsa azondirovesa<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dai makandiudza mamwe musati musati maenda<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Takanzwa nezvekukomba kweurwere hwenyu<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Asi taingoti muchatwasuka mukatizve turu<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kusaziva kuti ainge akunyangirai muenzi
asina gogogoi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zvino zvamaenda VaGweshegweshe vasati
vadzoka kubva paye,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kana vauya tichavati kudii?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Imi matisiya asi mabasa enyu matisiyira<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tichangoaringa nekuarangarira<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gamba redu mune zvemitambo nekufadza vanhu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndinoti "Zororai, tinemi sekuru
Razaro"<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Comedian</span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tawanda Chigavazira<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bursts of laughter,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And giggle echoes<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Within walls of many houses and shacks<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As fascinated spellbound audience<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Enjoyed every moment as it lasted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It could only be the notorious comedian<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who invited even the tough hearted,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To hearty bursts of laugther,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Motivated the poor and those in solitude<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To forget their damn sorrows<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And laugh till they cried.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Enthused as well as amused<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By rarefied comic theatrical antics,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sheer brilliance par excellence!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Reflections of which evokes<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Deep pain for dear souls<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That laughed the bursts of laughter<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In time with the Comedian<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In hope that those comical days<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Were a lasting illustrious lustre<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alas, they too ended.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ended sooner than days of a lean year,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the renowned Comedian was gone!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gone in a Biblical Lazarus way,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oh, may his Dear Soul Rest in Peace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unhu
hwaGiringo</span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">NaFarai Manguwo<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unhu hwaGiringo hwaisvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ini ndaive ndakamuvenga zvangu<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndaingoti zimunhu iri !<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zvokwadi regai ndireve<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Giringo waindisvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndaiti ndikaona vhidiyo rake,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ndaiswera ndichiridza tsamwa xaa putuu<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nekuda kwehunhu hwake hwainge marara<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Icho chaairwa chii ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Shanje dzaaive nadzo dzaipfutidza gwenzi<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chaairwa panaFirimoni chii?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aimupfigirirei mumba maVaGweshegweshe?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ko zimukonde resadza raaipurumutsa aitenga
hupfu?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ko chikwereti chaJohn Banda akafa
achibvisa?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ko icho chaiita kuti aise rwaivhi mushangu
yemukomana wekuLanzo chaive chii?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ah!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Giringo waindisvota ini<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kusvota kusvika pakunakidza nekusvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kusvota zvekusvika pakusetsa nekusvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kusvota zvekusvika pakusada kushaikwa
nenyika yose nekuda kwekusvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aiwa Giringo wakatisvota ,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wakatisvota ukazofa zvakatisvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nhasi takungosvotwa tichikudemba kuti dai
uripo watisvota<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Misodzi</span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">NaTamutswa Muzana Kundidzora<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ramba kumupembedza nemisodzi,</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zvichirwadza kudaro mvura ngaigare
mumaziso,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wototsemura muromo nenyemwerero,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meso achikanda mufaro,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wadaro warova muvengi neyekumadzingambwa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usamututumadza nekuturutsa mvura isina
gogo,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ziso rako rikande patariro,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wopfekedzera uswa padendere rako,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Panguva yechando iwe nemanyana modziirwa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wangodaro waisa majecha mune ake maziso,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ochecheta!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usarapira nhunha dzake nekurereka musoro,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usimudze mudenga sewemhakure,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Womuringa mumeso senurevi wechikwereti,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ugwara ngaudyiwe napongwe,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Iwe semhare wotomira,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wadaro wamupeta zenze,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wake muswe wavemumateya!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usamwisa bhora mugedhi rako,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rikavire mberi,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vaite chibhubhu varikure nepanomwiswa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Worijungawo nechikunwe richienda kugedhi
kwavo,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wadaro waparadza kugaro bongomora,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wakundwa nevamwe seusina makumbo!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">THE
YOUTH PERSPECTIVE</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WKD39RZyucdUrCdrwE7wUKfW_foLZxthFa8FfPzlNZ03I0a-xjeSRFLd1MiyEI8B7lF8SiuXzCMHa3efcQkqYsNBk9R7zkTqPiu49PJWgfxPS6LcRssCfi3pgNPAX1t2GMWzxLT3c0s/s437/mimi2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="435" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WKD39RZyucdUrCdrwE7wUKfW_foLZxthFa8FfPzlNZ03I0a-xjeSRFLd1MiyEI8B7lF8SiuXzCMHa3efcQkqYsNBk9R7zkTqPiu49PJWgfxPS6LcRssCfi3pgNPAX1t2GMWzxLT3c0s/s320/mimi2.jpg" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Mimi
Machakaire</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2020 In A Nutshell<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A lot
of people said they didn’t like the year 2020, but that was
probably because of the impact of the Coronavirus which affected a lot of
countries around the world. Most countries were shut down and
still up until now are closed to the rest of the world. Some have attempted to
reopen their boarders but sadly very little changed to that effect and, as a
result, had to close up again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Loved
ones have been dying from COVID-19, and while others have recovered, there are still some long-term effects from having contracted the virus in the
first place. Furthermore, schools closed and everyone had to do most things online
but that made no difference to someone like me who spent a good four years of
university at an online institution, studying journalism, prior to all the
changes that shook the world at large.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 1cm;">As a journalist, most of my work needs me to be active on social media and
other online platforms, hence I got into a lot of different activities that
kept me busy during lockdown. A lot of plans that were supposed to happen changed during the year 2020, as did mine. For instance, I had wanted to start a
youth platform with someone who was my business partner; we intended to build a
magazine, but sadly, due to Covid-19, the plans were delayed until further notice.
Even the job that I had as Junior Public Relations Officer at Black Mix Lesotho
changed due to events being cancelled because of Covid-19. There was hardly any work to keep me busy and this was strange considering that after
being online and graduating from University, I was ready to be more involved in
working with other people and gaining experience. But I didn’t let all the changes
stop me from being the journalist that I know myself to be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One day
I woke up and said my youth platform is going to be a blog. So I started a blog
that told the stories of many different Basotho youths who are entrepreneurs
and creative thinkers. The blog featured women though there was
one man who shared his story on mental health. And that was an inspirational story from
a person who also has mental health challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This
series of stories eventually led me to getting in contact with one person from
Writers Space Africa. WSA is an organization built to encourage African writers, and it was originally based in Nigeria. It started as a digital magazine but
has other activity platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and
Twitter. Now it has since grown into other parts of Africa such as Writers
Space – Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Uganda and many more. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">WSA
tells so many different stories of the world in different literary formats such as poetry, article writing, flash fiction and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WSA then led me to
another series that can be found on their website called Mental Health for
Creatives. This was an idea presented to me from the Founder of WSA Anthony
Onugba, after reading one of my mental health stories from my blog that I had
shared in the WSA-Main WhatsApp group. With that followed four blissful
informative stories on the topic of mental health that is currently an ongoing
project. I continued with WSA for the rest of the year, even up until now
(2021) and just at the last two months of the year 2020 a job found me. All this happened while in Lesotho
since lockdown restrictions hit the country. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So
fellow writers, readers, journalists and youth, my story doesn’t end here but
it is simply continuing into a different world of media. Despite the
challenges of COVID-19 and whatever was happening within my family, I didn’t let anything convince me to put a stop to my hopes and
dreams; rather, I took a pause here and there to rejuvenate and rethink a
different strategy before pulling up my socks and kept on walking. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE IN ZIMBABWE</span></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 184.3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 184.3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 184.3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 184.3pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Book I
Enjoyed Reading 33 Years Ago</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 184.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 184.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Title:</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Tongai the
Londoner</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Author:
<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Henry
Elwell<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 99.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Artist:<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Hassan
Musa<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 99.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Publisher: <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>College
Press<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">First
published:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1982<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ISBN:<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>08925300X <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Category:
<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>English
Supplementary Readers Level Ten<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Features:
<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Illustrations,
vocabulary (glossary) meanings of italicized phrases, Multiple Choice
questions, Language Work, Discussion work<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The story</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The
book is quick-paced and tells the story of Tongai, a young boy who is invited
to visit his uncle who is the High Commissioner to Great Britain. One day
Tongai visits a zoo in London where he overhears three men, Boabab, Boxer and
Big Ears planning to kill the Queen of England when she visits Westminster
Abbey. He tells a policeman who says he needs evidence of the planned murder
and is unhelpful to him.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Tongai tracks
the men as they go to several places, planning their moves. Through Tongai’s
alertness and</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">brave action, the
assassination attempt is foiled and Tongai is eventually</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">honored by being conferred with the Freedom
of the City of London at Buckingham Palace and is aptly nicknamed Tongai, the
Londoner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Comment</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I
thoroughly enjoyed this interesting, quintessentially English, well written and
highly readable children’s book and have read it again and again over the
years. It enriches the reader through various post-reading activities. The
book is recommended for learners in grade 6 and 7.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">NGATINYOREYI</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWPUFq8dPQb3NWaxdWT0MPMnhivuct9J9d9C530DOopQzXIgoQmwROtuC2fPIbw-6PB4vqVcvDOmc88E7EicvY1AbNxBwwJYTc_T9kGgC-0F9B6IMmwmkJyIKUqpQFQr6UlLdtg_kNo8/s320/tinashe+muchuri.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWPUFq8dPQb3NWaxdWT0MPMnhivuct9J9d9C530DOopQzXIgoQmwROtuC2fPIbw-6PB4vqVcvDOmc88E7EicvY1AbNxBwwJYTc_T9kGgC-0F9B6IMmwmkJyIKUqpQFQr6UlLdtg_kNo8/s0/tinashe+muchuri.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm;">NaTinashe Muchuri</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kukadzi 21 izuva rendimi
dzavanhu pasi rese</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ngatinyorei
nendimi dzedu tisingasvodi kusekwa kana kusvorwa. Ndimi dzedu ndidzo tsika
dzedu. Madziri ndimo mune hope dzedu dzebudiriro nevandudzo yeupenyu.
Handichazezi kunyora nerurimi rwaamai. Ndakarupiwa ndikaruda. Zvino ndodada
narwo. Ndinonyora narwo. Asika handisini ndakatanga kudada narwo ndoga.
Muchinyorwa chino ndodavo kutaura nezve mbiru dzomutauro weChiShona. Ndichadoma
vashoma nokuda kwekuti ndikaredzva nyaya vamwe munozonzwa dzungu mukasanzwa
pane nyaya yangu. Zvisinei kuti tigone kupemberera zuva rorurimi rwaamai,
kureva kuti variyo vakatsira nheyo dzemutauro weChiShona dzakasimba, ndokuuyawo
vamwe vakasimbaradza nheyo dziya kuti dzisakanganisika. Kunouya mhepomupengo
kuvhunga idzi nheyo asi hadzingadoni.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zvinonzi ndimi dzonzi hadzina basa kuti
dzinyatsodzidzwa kuzvikoro zvedzidzo yepamusoro. Hurongwa hunosandura dzidzo
yendimi hunonongedzwa senzira yekuponda vanhu, tsika, nehope dzavo dzoupenyu.
Vanhu vasina mutauro wavo vangava vanhu here? Kuzvisunga netambo
dzezvisunganidzo sekureva kwaBob Nyabinde.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kune vasingagoni kunyararwa panotaurwa ChiShona.
Solomon Musvairo, Amos Hodza, Hebert Chitepo, Thompson Tsodzo, Modekai
Hamutyinei, Sharai Mukonoweehuro, Charles Mungoshi, Aaron Chiundura Moyo,
Collete Mutangadura, nevamwe vakawanda vakasimba kuti rurimi rweChiShona
rurarame. Zvaisave nyore kumira pane chinosekwa nokutizwa nevamwe asi ivo
vasingasvodi kusekwa. Vanyori ivava ndinovapa maoko.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Variyo vamwe vanyori vakasimbisa kudzidzwa
kweChiShona. Vadzidzisi vakaita saDale, Doke, George Fortune, Hebert Chimhundu,
Elvis Mari, Bissete Chitsike, Wiseman Magwa, Willie Chigidi nevamwe vakawanda
vakaita kuti ChiShona chifambire mberi. Havana kuita hudimbe hwekupakura
zvinyorwa mururimi rwaamai zvinomukurumbira. Kushinga kwavo kwaiva kwokuti
nhaka iyi isafa. Ignatius Mabasa unoti nhaka inoda kuwana vanoigara
nokuishandisa kuti isafa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Vakauyawo vamwe vasina kuita husimbe. Chirikure
Chirikure, Ignatius Mabasa, Chiedza Musengezi, Charles Makare, Charles Mzemba,
Morgan Mahanya, vakachibata nokuenderera mberi nacho. Vamwe nanhasi vanacho.
Kukapinda vanaGodobori, Ticha Mudavazi, Dhege, VaSadza, Mwanakomana, Sir
Zvavanhuvevhu, Mambo Guramatunhu, Fadzai Katanda nevamwe vakawandisa vari kusekenyedza
dariro nokututsira mikuni muchoto kuti moto uve darautsavana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ndadoma mazita mashoma kwete nokuti ndivo voga
asi kuti uve munongedzo wokuti vachiriko vadavadi vanodada nerurimi rwavo.
Nhasi handitauri nezvamupebvu Soul Jah Love. Uyu anoda ndima yake. Kudai mweya
wake wazorora murugare nekuti akava pamamonya pakusimudzira mutauro weChiShona
nekushandisa mazwi ainge akanganikwa nevazhinji achiapa kureva kutsva. Chibaba.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mutauro uyu unonaka. Inhaka yomusiidzanwa.
Ndichasiya nhaka. Neniwo ndoda kuisiya nhaka mhenyu isingafi. Ngatinyoreri
tisiye nhaka. Ngativeyi vakachengeteka kuhurwere hweCOVID-19. Ngatipfekei
zvisekete zvedu. Tigeze maoko. Dzamara tasanganazve tiri vatano hama dzadiwa,
ngatinyorei.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1cm; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="background-color: #ffa400; font-family: Georgia, serif;">MABHUKU EDU</span></b></span></p>
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Msipa, P. Njeke, O. Gwiriri and B.S
Chiguma<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISBN 978-1-77929-686-3<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vanyanduri makumi maviri nevaviri takabatana mugore ra2018
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CHENDURI uyo watakazoparura muna Zvita 2020. Bhuku iri ranyorwa neunyanzvi
hwepamusorosoro, zvekuti rinokwikwidza pakati pemamwe mabhuku enhetembo
akatsikiswa pamakore apfuura nemamwe ari kutsikiswa zvazvino.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nduri yangu yakanzi “Wairasa!” pp 7, inotaura
nezvekutengesana paushamwari. Vanhu vemazuvano ushamwari hwawo hauna machokwadi
ndizvo ndakanyandura ndichitsutsumwa pandakati, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chiona ndazvagadwa sare madzvautsvau,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Misodzi mokoto ndochema maguyakuya. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iwe woti pferu! <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZW; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Wandaisitururira
matohwe wondiseka maparapadzwa</span></i>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bitwell Moyo ndinyanduri akati tsitsa pane dzerudo. Munduri
yake inonzi “Rudo rwacho ngaruperere” aichema nevakadzi vakanaka pachiso avo
vanoshandisa runako rwavo zvisizvo vachiita chipfambi. Ndizvo akati,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Chiso chakatambiswa zvacho kupaikirwa
padanda, <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Muviri wako kuumbika unoti ihurungudo, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Izwi kutetepera nekutonhorera sechinwiwa chabva mufiriji,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zvinofungwa ndiro dondo zvaro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mumwe akanyandura achishandisa njere ndiAbel Mauchi. Nduri
yake inonzi “Ndava Kumboenda” pp 19, ine munhu pasi. Ndeye rume rine rushusho
pane zvekudya, iro raipopetera mukadzi akanga adya nyama yehuku sepaanoti,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Tingadzipana pano huku ukaitevera iyi<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kana kuti uri kutamba hakozve?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chindipa gapu ndirave nhengo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ndozvandisingadi Madhuve ndakazomuvhuna rumbabvu.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Tsoro yehupenyu” pp 26, inovhura meso emunhu wese ari
kurarama pasi pezuva kuti raramo yamazuvano inotida kuti iwe munhu uvhure meso,
woona kuti zvinhu zvaminama wochitoruma romo rezasi kuti usvike murwendo
rweraramo. Ndizvo B.S Chiguma akati,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Rugare rwunosvutidzana fodya neanobhindauka.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Usagarire
maoko urere muberere,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Uchimirira
kudya chekupungurirwa uchipemha,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Chekupihwa
hachina makoko mutsambakodzi.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zviri mudzimba umu zvikukutu, regai mukare ati chakafukidza
dzimba matenga. Lazarus Sauti akazvionawo, zvikamudzimba moyo, nhunha
ndokudzidurura muna “Kwindi” pp 31, apo baba Chomu vanenge vachishushikana nekugarofundumwarirwa
namai Chomu. Baba Chomu ndokuchibvunzawo mudiwa wavo kuti chinetso chiri pai. Zvino
i-i, mai Chomu vacho ungati chikara zvacho, hanzi:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Iwe baba Chomu,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enda unopengera kwawakaroiwa mhani!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Usati pwetere pwetere zvisina nematuro
ose,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kufara kana kusafara kwangu zvinei
newe?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maitiro evanhu mudzimba umu anopedza simba. Sandikuti varume
vega ndivo vanoshungurudza vakadzi, asi kuti ivo vakadzi chaiwo vanoshungurudza
varume. Murume anonyimwa zvekudya kuita searisi baba vemba asi ariye. Zvichida
ndizvo vamwe varume vachizopota vachifurira kunze kwedanga. James Chitamba
akaitsokonyodza nyaya iyi pana “Kungotarira!” pp 36, paakati,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zvino kana vatarira vodii?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zvinogumirepi vanyemudzwa?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kuvata nezhara vakatarira chimukuyu?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hunzi vonai chete, hamudyi!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kungotarira, vangadii vasina kupuwa?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vamwe vakomana vemakombi ungati havana kurerwa nevanhu,
zvikurusei panguva dzavanotaura nevafambi. Joshua Muitire, akatepfenyura mboni
yeziso rake akazviti bamama, ndokuti “Hwindi” pp 42 achimutsutsumwira: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mashoko unoita zvekurutsa,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mako mukanwa moita semakafira chidembo<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iyo ikorichi ipi inonodzidziswa mutauro
wakaora kudaro?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vamwe vasikana munyika yanhasi</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">havachina basa nedzimba nekuda kwekuti
vanozviti</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">vakarurama pachiso. Vari kuchibva
vashandisa mukana werunako urwu vachingoda varume vese vese vachipuwa mari
vachitadza kudzikama kuitawo misha. Emily Mushonga sanyanduri wechidzimai</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">anorwadziwa zvikuru nehunhu hwevamwe
vanhukadzi ava sezviri munduri yake “Tichakunzwirai” pp 52, paanoti:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kuvatora nekuvapedza,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kusiya vave vanamusvuuganda<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">..Riiniko pamuchaziva kunaka kwemba?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Edwin Msipa (Black Mampara) ndinyanduri wemakuwerere. Pana
“Pindurai henyu” pp 58, akatanga apinda aongorora maitiro evanhu vanhasi akaona
kuti vamwe vacho vanongonzi vababa, vanamai asi pavari panenge pasina unhu
hwenoratidza kuti ava ndibaba kana mai. Anoshandisa unyanzvi wemazwi
mukuratidza izvi, sepaanoti,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Imi!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chamunoti baba chaiye chii?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isvutu?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hwapepe hwendebvu refu?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zizwi rinenge rine hosho mumukanwa?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kudya gomo resadza?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…Kuti titi avo ndiamai chaivo chiiko?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Idhuku?....Igogo ndefu?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kazwi kakati tetepei zvinoti kwezvei?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mukarara vamwe vapfumi vamwewo varombo. Vapfumi vave
kuzvifunganya havadi kubatsirawo varombo. Vamwewo vanosungwa mujerere vasina
mhaka yavapera. Ngonidzashe Paradza, anorwadziwa zvikuru nekutsikirirwa
kwevsina mhako ndizvo pana “Ndiri izwi” pp 61, akati,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Izwi revanorumwa netsikidzi chinyerere<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Vakabopwa
nemarikiti,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inda dzichisvusvvura ropa ravo risina
chitema.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nyika yedu yaZimbabwe yakashongedzwa nezvizhinji zvinofadza
pamwe nekuyevedza meso. Vanhu vemo vanodya cheziya ravo zvinotofadzawo chose.
Farai Manguvo akazvionawo, ndokuti “Chituburamboni” pp 66,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Uyazve uone Zimbabwe izere nevabati vemaoko</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Kune vanamhizha vanoumba hari dzemhando<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kuna vanachisorokadzi vanoveza zvivezwa
zvinenge zvichafema<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tisingavereni vanoita zvekuruka mhasa
netswanda</span></i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kikiki, hayasi! Vamwe varume vakuru vabvumi kukura chokwadi.
Chokwadi murume mukuru kutsvetsva mwanasika anezera negotwe rake chokwadi? Izvi
zvinotoitika. Simbarashe Chirikure, “Jambanja patsime” pp 73, akazviona
zvichiitwa nemurume A, uyo aitsvetsva mhandara B, iyo yaive nezera negotwe
raiye A. Zvino B,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">anoraidza kuva
mhandara yakadya maraiwa evabereki ikaguta sezvo yakazoti,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Makajaidzwa baba imi!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Murume mukuru asinganyare,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Hamuna
kukwana baba imi.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ndiri zera regotwe renyu Rozi…Ptu-u! Pfungwa dzenyu dzakaora
imi.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regai ndimhanye kunokureverai
kuvabereki vangu.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rudo runonakidza kana uine wako waunodisa uye iyewo
achikudisisa. Pane chakanaka chaunoita achikuyemurawo so.Oscar Gwiriri,
anoyemura “Vimbai” pp 80, nerunako rwaainarwo kunyangwe ari kuhope. Kudai
vakomana vanhu vese vachiragarisa zvakaadai murudo umo chokwadi hakuna imba
yatainzwa kuti yapara, kana zvamendenenzi zviya kudai kusina. Inzwai zvinoudzwa
Vimbai, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ndinonzwa sei maoko angu,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Achipfanya
minyepfu yemuviri wako,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iwe uri nyorododo muchipfuva changu,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Naiwo manyuchi andinokudururira,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Azere nekuzadziswa kwenhamburiko.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mwari vari kudenga uko, masimba avo makuru uye anotyisa.
Hakuna wakafanirwa kuenzaniswa navo parukudzo rwatinofanira kuvapa. Tonderayi
Matema, anotivhendenyurira chipenga chemasimba anotyisa ana Mari zvekutu neniwo
ndakatya. Ndzivo akati “Hukuru hwaMwari” pp 95, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hukuru hwenyu Mwari hauna godobori.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.1pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.1pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iyeyu wamakaisa muffananidzo wenyu
chishamiso chikuru.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 34.9pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 34.9pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…maive makamira pai muchoumba nzou
yakakura kudaro?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 34.9pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 34.9pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maiona sei muchisika twupukana
twusingaoneki?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 34.9pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 34.9pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maifungei kupa kautunga huroi nehuipi
hwakadaro?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 34.9pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 34.9pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ko, pamakaita muremwaremwa maive
nepfungwa mbiri here?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 34.9pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 34.9pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iye anopetura vhudzi rashumba ndiani?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kudya uchiguta haisi nyore, panotenge padeuka ziya. Ziya
rikasachucha haudye. Ndizvo Tamutswa Muzana Kundidzora anorayira “Tinotenda” pp
98, kuti;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zviri nani kuremberera pane kudonha.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zviri nani kutatarika pane kuzvambuka,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zviri nani kusvasvamhaira pane
kungoyeva<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simuka utatarike!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tiri kurarama panyika asi, vamwe vane zvinobatika zveupenyu
asi vamwe havana. Tinozvarwa tisina chatiinacho asi hapana anoziva kuti
anozovei mune ramangwana.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shingirai Manyengavana
anoshamiswa nekurongwa kweMusika maringe nemarongero avanoita upenyu hwedu.
“Zvichazovei” pp 111, anoti,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zvamakandisika, mukandiisa pasi pano,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ndisina change chandinoti change,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ndiri munhu zvake asina chake,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maiti ndichazovei?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vabereki vanofanira kuraira vanasikana wavo kana vonotanga
misha. Ndizvo kuti imba’yo igare sezvo anenge akapfuma nedzidziso. Pasina izvi
chokwadi mungazofunge kuti pamwe mune munyama wekuti dzimba dzevana venyu
dzisamira. Luckomore Magaya anosimbaradza izvi muna “Rereka nzeve” pp 113,
achiti;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mai vako kukura kudai kutevedzera rairo
yekwavo kwaMapingire.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vamwene vako ava,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kunyangwe vari Tumbare zvake anogeza
mazino nematohwe,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vade!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vana mazuvano varasa tsika nekuti havana acharaira. Mwana
kuti akure zvakanaka anofanira kuteerera dzidziso inobva kuvakuru. Natasha
Gwiriri anonyeurira vana vadiki saiye kuti vateerere vakuru. Anozviratidza
mundure yake “Yambiro” pp 117, paanoti,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kana isu tichitaura kudai,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Imi dzokonoko mot indo ndo ndo zvitanda
munzeve,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Asi somunhu anokuruma nzeve handinete,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dai wateerera zvamazvirokwazvo mwanawe,
wanzwa.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Albert. N Mawarire, muna “Siyira gakanje” pp 125, anoyambira
vanhu vanhasi kuti varege kungotevedzera zvanoona zvichiitwa nevamwe nekuti
kumagumo uko vangazochema. Anoti mumwe neumwe ngaaite zvake.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ukava muteveri muswe uchatora hako.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mira hako ipo panzvimbo yawazivawo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chemera kuchenesa hwaro hwerako,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rwendo nokuti kunoperekedzanwa,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kuvagomberi chete.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vakoma vamazuvano havachina rudo rwemachokwadi kuvasikana
vavo. Rudo rwavo nderwekuda kungotamba nevasikana vavo chete. Vasikana
vanoshushikannna zvkuru nevakomana vakadai sezvo vasikana ava vanenge vaine
tarisiro yekuzovakawo musha, asi vozongoona rudo rwuya rwatopera mushure
mokutambwa navo. Irvine Mugwagwa akazviona zvikamudzudzawo ndokuti, “Ndaikuda
nemoyo wese” pp 129,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zvino pandakakuudza kuti ndainge ndazvimbirwa,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wakaunyanisa chiso ukave nehasha ukadumbirwa.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maziso ako akatsvuka nehasha kuita seerovambira</span></i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vamwewo vanhu vanhasi vachina hanya nenherera. Nherera
dzotambura kutadza kuenda kuchikoro nekuda kwekushaya mari. Pamwe dzinonoruvira
asi hadzipiwi muripo wacho. Admire Daitai anorwadziwa nemaitiro aya. Akabva
azvibuditsa munduri yake inonzi “Mugodhi wadhirika” pp 138,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fundo toionera pafafitera vevamwe
vachifunda vana</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ko, toiwanepi mari mugodhi wadhirika?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Toruvira mumana siku nesikati tiwane
chouviri.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tapedza topiwa nerinosemwa sadza.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Munhu akange akura zvakadii asi anotomborangarirawo
nhoroondo yekukura kwake. Kunyangwe munhu wave kugara kune imwe nzvimbo, asi
unotomborangarira kwawakakurira. Tinashe Muchiri anorangarira mukuriro wake
nezvaaiona pamwe nevaaigarawo navo, ndokuzviti chi, panduri yake
“Chibaranyanya” pp 140, hanzi:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ndaizonyanyofara ndichiona Mupatawamazana,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nzira yemazana evarwi,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugomo guru reDyangwe rine makomo pamusoro,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ipo pachipande charo pane nyika nyoro,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nyika yakadiwa naDakire hanzvadzi yaVaMaruke.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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