Mhenenguro

Waiting Here we are!! At Bole International Airport. I think. i always lose sense of place and time. They are of little consequence to me. I pay much focus on the insignificant occurrences around. Things only known to the tiny CCTV cameras and other insignificant figures around me.  An Ethiopian Catholic Church priest is holding his precious bible. Being the Crayie I always am, always crazy for inked paper. It doesn't matter you inked it with what; as long it reflects the letters of the languages that the little world I was thrown into imposed on my poor language acquisition device, me I send my eyes and ‘thief’ into the pages. I have also mastered the way of peeping into people’s phone messages. It doesn't matter if I fail to connect your infatuations, lies, deception, joys, ‘sads’, sorrows I just look and look away, look away then look again. During one of my great discoveries through texts peep I saw them quarreling in French these love birds. One of the quarrel...

Chennels in Muponde and Primorac (2005) edited Versions of Zimbabwe: New approaches to literature chose to entitle his contribution ‘Self-representation and national memory: white autobiographies in Zimbabwe.’ Chennels’ title aptly captures the soul of white authored texts that emerged in Zimbabwe after the historic and much publicised and debated Zimbabwean land reform programme. The exercise provided fertile ground for new and interesting authorship by the affected white land owners. This is not to remove equally interesting black-Zimbabwean authors about the same event from the scene. In these ‘white’ writings, there emerged interesting dimensions of issues to do with skin pigment and its relationship to ownership, law, power, identity and belonging among many other themes.   This adds an interesting flare that fascinates readership and audience of Zimbabwean literature. One such author who offers scintillating dimensions of the epoch is Douglas Rogers in his book The La...