Zimbabwean Literature
This is a list of the Zimbabwean Literature that I have in my possession. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all Zimbabwean Writers.
Brian Chikwava
Writing the Story of Zimbabwe (article available online)
Dancing to the Jazz Goblin and his Rhythm (Short Story available online)
Rigor Mortis of the Tongue and other earthly things (Short Story available online)
Free Speech in Zimbabwe: Story of a blue-stomached lizard (Article available online)
Blasting the Poet: Reflections on Dambudzo Marechera (Article available online)
Moto (Article available online)
Reflections on the context of Chikwava’s novel Harare North (Article available online)
Interview (2009) in African Writing available online
Interview (2009) in The Scotsman available online
Interview (2009) in Pambazuka available online
Shimmer Chinodya
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nervous Conditions (Novel)
The Book of Not (Novel)
Trapped and Troping: Allegories of the Transnational Intellectual in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s “Nervous Conditions” by Biman Basu (essay available online)
Petina Gappah
An Elegy for Easterly (Short Stories)
Chenjerai Hove
Bones (Novel)
Shebeen Tales (Memoir)
The Sacrifice (Short Story available online)
A Letter to My Mother (Letter available online)
Interview with Africultures available online
“A journey without maps” (Article available online)
Dambudzo Marechera
The House of Hunger (Novella and Short Stories)
Nigerian Writer Helon Habila’s article “On Dambudzo Marechera: The Life and Times of an African Writer” available online
Blasting the Poet: Reflections on Dambudzo Marechera by B. Chikwava (Article available online)
Interview with Professor Memory Chirere about Dambudzo Marechera available online at allAfrica.com
J. Nozipo Maraire
ZenZele: A Letter for My Daughter (Novel)
Article about Writer and Neurosurgeon J. Nozipo Maraire in Yale Medicine
Christopher Mlalazi
Dearest Sender of the Bulldozers (Short Story available online)
The River of Life (Short Story available online)
King of Bums (Short Story available online)
Interview (2008) available online
Audio Interview (2005) available online
Dickson A. Mungazi
The Cross Between Rhodesia and Zimbabwe: Racial Conflict in Rhodesia 1962-1979 (History)
Charles Mungoshi
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World (Selected Short Stories)
Interview with the Nordic Africa Institute available online
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Can Women’s Voices be recovered from the Past? Grappling with the Absence of Women Voices in Pre-Colonial History of Zimbabwe (Essay available online)
Who Ruled by the Spear? Rethinking the Form of Governance in the Ndebele State (Essay available online)
Reaping the Bitter Fruits of Stalinist Tendencies in Zimbabwe (Essay available online)
Giving Africa Voice within Global Governance: Oral History, Human Rights and the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Essay available online)
Nativism and the Debate on African Public Sphere in Postcolonial Africa: Reflections on a Problematic ‘Reverse-Discourse’ (Essay available online)
Africa for Africans or Africa for “Natives” Only? New Nationalism and Nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa (Essay available online)
Africa at 50, Zimbabwe at 30, and South Africa at 16 (Article available online)
Profile available online
Profile from the South African Institute on International Affairs available online
Stanlake Samkange
Year of the Uprising (Novel)
Obituary in the New York Times available online
Farai Sevenzo
On Revolutions and Resolutions (Article available online)
Colonel’s Continent (Article available online)
Flirting with Fiction (Article available online)
The Death of a Zimbabwean Activist (Article available online)
Day of Drama in Harare (Article available online)
Seveno’s Diary at FESTACO (Articles available online)
BBC Network Africa Presenter Profile available online
Lutanga Shaba
Secrets of a Woman’s Soul (Novel) Website for the Novel
Article about Lutanga Shaba on Kubatana.net
Ndabaningi Sithole
The Polygamist (Novel)
Valerie Tagwira
The Uncertainty of Hope (Novel) Excerpt available online
Mainini Grace’s Promises (Short Story available online)
A Walk in the Night (Short Story available online)
Interview (2010) available online
Interview (2009) available online
Interview (2009) with World Press Review available online
Interview (2007) available online
Interview (2007) with BBC Africa Beyond available online
Pragmatic Morality in Valerie Tagwira’s ‘The Uncertainty of Hope’: A Book Café Discussion with Kubatana.net available online
Valerie Tagwira’s Blog
Lawrence Vambe
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe (Memoir)
Interview (2007) available online
Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera
Nehanda (Novel)
Without a Name and Under the Tongue (Novellas)
Butterfly Burning (Novel) Excerpt from the novel available online at Barcelona Review
The Stone Virgins (Novel)
Not a scintilla of light: Darkness and despondency in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning by Chioma Opara (essay available online)
