Send my niece to a better school
When I left the country, they were only kids, running about in glee whenever I visited, chanting, “Sekuru! Sekuru vauya mhamha!” Then I would gather them, all four of them, and say, “Who’s ready for...
View ArticleEchoes of Young Voices short story competition
Young writers up to the age of 25 years are invited to submit short stories and poems on any theme for a young writers’ book publication. The short stories should be between 1500 and 5000 words and in...
View ArticleMaking sense of Vongi
1 She arrived on a Sunday, dressed up for church but not intending to go to any church. She just wanted to see her aunt, to show her that she was grown up, able to penetrate Harare on her own. “But...
View ArticleA woman in rebirth
In the beginning is a word, and the word becomes a voice shut up in her bones; in a whisper, it weaves itself into her loins telling her to burst forth like a bud from her self-made cocoon. She hurries...
View ArticleSadza paChimanimani
Zvinoita sadza! Takangoti tichiburuka bhazi paChimanimani Town Center kwava kuchimhanyira kwaibva munhuwi waro. Ipapo ndanga ndabva mukusangana neumwe murume wechidiki seni, uyo anga andiona...
View ArticleLaughing to keep from crying
Excerpts from In Search of Rain & Harvest (a novel, unpublished) We really believed that we knew it all. Our anger and self- righteousness sat coiled like a beady- eyed serpent on the floor of our...
View ArticleThe Keresenzia Effect: The child killer in Chirere & Tagwira’s stories
When a society’s structures fall, when its economy crumbles and there are high levels of unemployment and unimaginable suffering, its children face the highest levels of danger such a society of...
View ArticleThe Waterman cometh
More excerpts from In Search of rain & Harvest (a novel, unpublished) From the Deathwatch Journal Entry: 31/12/99 10:30 p.m. Here we stand at the gates of the new millennium. I don’t see what it is...
View ArticleRuby Magosvongwe and Steven Millhauser on the short story
There is much talk about the short story these days. The latest authoritative views about the genre are by University of Zimbabwe professor Ruby Magosvongwe and award-winning short story writer Steven...
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A world of Fiction
There is this nifty place for writers called StoryTime, where my latest short story is featured. Here is an excerpt: The entrance to Kubatana was dotted with scantily-dressed women and peanut...
View ArticleVosvika muAmerica mazuva ano
Mbeu yevanhu vosvika muno yati siyanei neyedu patakasvika. Isu taivinga chikoro, kana kuzotora twumakosi twekutiwanisa mabasa ane musoro, toshanda kwemakore, tichironga kuzodzokera kumusha...
View ArticleWhen evil prevails
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.’ Martin Luther King “If we...
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