Hon. Jessie Majome, the MP for Harare West earlier this month made a donation of textbooks worth thousands of dollars to the Emerald Hill School for the Deaf. Majome said the donation was necessitated by the acute shortage of reading… read more

The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) is inviting you to its next Harare members’ bi-monthly meeting to be held at the British Council, 16 Cork Road, Belgravia, Harare (opposite the South African Embassy) on October 27, 2012 from 12:30 to 4:30… read more

Art4Apps.org, a database of images and audio files of words, are looking for mobile apps to improve children’s literacy around the world. Art4Apps.org provides a large number of images and audio resources in mother tongue under creative commons. They are available for… read more

reprinted from Sicilian.webs.com Zimbabwe’s literary history, hitherto dominated by male voices, has of late seen a gradual increase in the number of female voices fighting to create space for purely female sensitivities. In the pre-independence period there is no evidence of… read more

Writers International Network  Zimbabwe awarded Epworth-based Supa Mafutawith the second prize in the the network’s 2012 Short Story Writing Competition’s Shona language category. Zimbabwe reads supplied WIN Zimbabwe with the books for the prize. WIN embarked on the Outreach Programme in February this… read more

Muchingura Primary School run by the Johanne Masowe Apostolic sect in Gandanzara, Manicaland Province has an enrolment of 145 pupils. Pupils pay $3 a month as fees which is used to pay salaries for the five teachers employed by the church. Angeline Kutsanzira, a… read more

Rob Matthews sends us this request: “Please contribute to a Primary English course, a seven-book series I’m editing with a go-ahead Zim publisher. You may be a writer of fiction, memoir or poetry, but with guidance you could write a… read more