- Nov 07, 2020
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- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are the kinds of names that Zimbabweans like: names that have positive qualities. Like, Praise is a very popular name; Loveness is a very popular name.
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.
- Convictions
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are trying to do now, this new generation of African writers, is to write about what it is to be a human being living in a particular African country. These are stories that resonate with anyone, anywhere.
- Nov 07, 2020
I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not even sure that I want to go back... The Zimbabwe that I really loved, the Zimbabwe that I grew up in, just isn't there anymore, and I'm not sure about the country that has replaced it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The painful truth may be that Zimbabwe, the youngest of Africa's former colonies, has simply followed where the continent has led, treading the well-worn path beaten out of the lie that taking power from the colonialists and delivering democracy to the people are one and the same.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020