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In South Africa, the struggle against apartheid found its most potent voice in a confluence of literature and activism. Steve Biko, a revolutionary thinker and anti-apartheid activist, authored I Write What I Like.
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Scribes of freedom: Southern African literature works for a just society

From critiques of apartheid to reflections on post-colonial identity, Southern African literature has chronicled the region’s history and shaped its trajectory to a just society

  • Chikumbutso Ndaferankhande
6 min read
Tinashe Mushakavahu (Delwyn Verasamy)
AT THE HEAD OF THE STREAM

Threading 40 years of Zimbabwean writing

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

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read
BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO

What exile means to creatives

Clockwise from top left: Maurice T Nyagumbo, Ruth Nomonde Chinamano, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Ziyaphapha Manyika, Johanna Nkomo and Robson Manyika. The stamps appear in the book…

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu
6 min read
New dawn: Methodist church reverend Canaan Banana
CHENJERAI HOVE

Free at last: The day Zimbabwe became independent

Chenjerai Hove reminisces about what April 18 1980 meant for him.

  • Chenjerai Hove
5 min read
APARTHEID

Mugabe’s apartheid state

The new government is window-dressing to conceal motives that have nothing to do with the welfare of the country.

  • Chenjerai Hove
8 min read
CHENJERAI HOVE

A Zimbabwean arrogantocracy

The MDC has learnt from experience that dictators give away only mirages of power.

  • Chenjerai Hove
9 min read