Reprinted from NewsDay-Multiple award–winning novelist Charles Muzuva Mungoshi’s family has accused College Press Publishers of attempting to cash in on his works when they had not been remitting royalties from sales of his Shona novel, Makunun’unu Maodza Moyo. The author’s… read more
Archived posts, November, 2013
Award winning author Doris Lessing dies
The Herald-Doris Lessing, the only Nobel prize winner with connections to Zimbabwe, and author of “The Golden Notebook” and “The Grass is Singing”, among more than 50 other novels ranging from political to science fiction, has died at her London… read more
NewsDay-Writers and organisers of this year’s Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) have expressed concern over the disappearance of a reading culture in the country. Speaking during the recently ended book fair at Harare Gardens, the writers said the disappearance of… read more
Author returns home for new novel
New Zimbabwe.com -An author reflects on her own childhood in a mining village in Zimbabwe as inspiration for her new book. Spiwe Nancy Mahachi-Harper has returned to her native country for her new novel Footprints in The Mists of Time…. read more
Father scores success with own education system
New Zimbabwe.com-A Zimbabwean man living in England has devised an education system that he believes could change the fortunes of children like his own. Roy Chinyanga’s daughter Chelsea got a grade C in GCSE maths aged just 11 and is… read more
Chatauqua reading club in Harare
The Chatauqua Literary and Scientific Circle – Zimbabwe (CLSC – Z) is inviting interested people to join them in reading and discussing quality books at its library once a month. CLSC-Z members who read twelve books from the book shelf… read more
Makosi turns 33, launches book
Reprinted from New Zimbabwe.com-Former Big Brother UK star Makosi Musambasi has marked her 33rd birthday by launching her new book, ‘Self Love – The Ultimate Choice’. Makosi launched the 200-page book in Abuja, Nigeria, where she is based on September… read more
San fight to save dying language
Southern Eye-FORTUNE MBELE The San community in Zimbabwe is pushing for the documentation of Tshwao language saying it faces extinction. Tshwao, also known as Khoisan in the new Constitution, is currently spoken by less than a third of the estimated… read more