Download or read book Pfungwa Dzinovhima Vadiwa written by Kelmendi, Jeton and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts Hunt The Loves is a selection of Jeton Kelmendi’s 54 poems which come from his two collections, Thoughts Hunt The Loves and I Knocked My Mind Against The Window, which were translated into Southern Africa’s biggest language, Shona. The original poems are in Albanian. It has poems that are as deep as the ocean’s bottom, philosophical ruminations, old wise insights, patriotic dreams, a love stage as high as the heavens, ruminations about the war, living in exile and the constant ache, or drive to want to unite his country Albania to be one country...; his poems are panoply of feelings, thoughts, reservations, residues that are brought up for us to devour in, in this magnificent collection.
Download or read book Ouafa and Thawra About a Lover from Tunisia written by Desimone, Arturo and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous country “where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet.” Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia before and after the ‘Arab Spring’ adding context to the poems (and offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original: his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology." - Jacob Silkstone, managing editor of Asymptote journal, co-founder of The Missing Slate.
Download or read book When Escape Becomes the Only Lover written by Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Escape Becomes the only Lover is a continuation and crystallization of issues dealt with in A Portrait of Defiance. The poet deals with a broad subject matter, love in all its forms, spirituality; this spirituality is individual it is the artist’s spiritual world. He deals with dreams, voice, word, numbers, poet’s vocation, wars, language, etc… He is the prophet of his dreams, his world, his future… There is strong experimentation and innovativeness in the writing, in the text, in form, in style, in content matter, the writer is a discoverer, every horizon is a life horizon. There is the dissecting of that space where art criticism meets art mimesis, and this space is offered as the future of art criticism. The storyteller refuses to die thus the collection proffers escape as the ultimate lover who can help us deal with the insanities of our time.
Download or read book Blooming Cactus written by mbambo, mikateko e. and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From invisibility to invincibility, Mikateko takes us through verses of despair, assault, discrimination, fear and hopelessness that girls and women encountered in a system that does not serve their interests to the life of purpose, power and freedom that girls and women continue to wedge in the face of all odds. This is one anthology that has the power to break and mend you. Mikateko has freed us all!" - Dr. Toyin Ajao (PhD), Researcher, Teacher and Storyteller
Download or read book Zimbolicious Anthology Volume Five written by Rinos Mwanaka and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, Vol 5 is the fifth in this yearly journal of Zimbabwean literature and the arts as it happens. The poetry covers a range of subjects; love, spirituality, religion, migration, poet's vocation and as usual the political direction or situation in the country. The fiction deals with a wide range issues, from religious contrivance in Gwiriri's story, drug problem and corruption in Mutize's story, the political and economic strife in Tokwe's story, and the personal trauma story in Chikomo's car accident story. In the nonfiction section we have Muchuri's illuminating essay on another Zimbabwe storyteller, Ignatious Mabasa's Shona books, Zvikomborero Kapuya harks back to the land issue as the starting point and catapult to the misunderstandings between Zimbabwe and her erstwhile foreign enemies, Chikono writes his painful life story on shame families carry when a family member has a child out of wedlock, worst when the child is disabled and Mwanaka has a small philosophical vignette essay on choice. The visual section is heralded by Nhevera's iconic brushworks depicting movement and portraiture, and Mwanaka has an array of art pieces from documentary photography, experimental photography, water colour, computer graphic and installation, wrapping up this new offering.
Download or read book Righteous Indignation written by Mzinyathi, Jabulani and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I vision through the seas of oppression and the grinding poverty I write not out anger but righteous indignation." Jabulani Mzinyathi was born of isiNdebele and ChiShona speaking parents in the Midlands Province of the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He has published pieces in various journals and anthologies over the years and his maiden collection of poetry Under The Steel Yoke, was published in 2018.
Download or read book Travellers Gather Dust and Lust written by Mainoo, Gabriel Awuah and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is an award winning writer, a tennis professional, lyricist and playwright studying at the University of Cape Coast whose poem ‘Taunt’ won best satire of the year 2017 on VOAP: Voices of African poets. He serves as project manager to Ghana writes literary group and creative editor to WGM: Writers Global Movement magazine. His first published work ‘Afri-lad’ appeared on YMCA, 2016. Mainoo is an international anthologized poet who has featured on several journals, he is a contributor to Best New African Poets 2018, Bodies & Scars anthology, and poetry leaves bound volume among others. His next projects are three collections: ‘60 Aces of Haiku’, ‘Lyrical Textiles’ and ‘Chicken Wings’, a Christmas haiku. Many of his works, sometimes esoteric are well-known for their wonderful lyrical propensity and spontaneity. Critics affirm that his remarkable weave of words marks him as the ‘Lyricist Extraordinaire’.
Download or read book The Rhythm of Life written by Olivia Osuoha and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhythm of Life is a record breaking book written in rhyme. It covers many facets of life, bent on the lessons, methods, and realities of life. Ngozi Olivia Osuoha is a poet, writer, thinker, and hymnist. She has published seventeen poetry books, including one co-written. She has featured in over sixty five international anthologies, and has also published over two hundred and fifty poems and articles in over twenty countries.
Download or read book Ghetto Symphony written by Mavolwane, Mandhla A. and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto Symphony is an orchestra of short stories and poems which vividly portray the socio-economic situation affecting teens and young adult groups across Zimbabwe. It is a compilation of an underground poet’s readings and writings which highlight the restrictions faced daily by the masses, and also project innovative ideas to overcome the dark cloud hovering over the future of Zimbabwe.
Download or read book Where I Belong written by Bhoumik, Smeetha and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smeetha Bhoumik is an artist celebrating her deep engagement with poetry. Her main theme of work is the Universe Series, exploring the mystery, oneness and unifying energies of the universe in oils and new media, shown in national and international exhibitions.
Download or read book A Letter to the President written by Chirasha, Mbizo and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His eagle eyes scan beyond the boundaries of his native Zimbabwe to right the crookedness of men with dubious ideals and reckless twists in lands abroad. Caressing his Lenovo mistress upon a night, he relives in recorded poesy, memories of victims of corruption and the false memoirs of looters of the land. A Letter to the President, is a collection of his experimental poetry. Here is the man on a mission and with a mission. Words are slings and rocks on his quiver. Tireless and resilient; no ugliness is too ugly to stay below his radar. His weapon of choice is his pen. Dipped in acid, as he says, no thug escapes the roast of his laser beam that put them on the spot light.
Download or read book Nationalism Mis Understanding Donald Trump s Capitalism Racism Global Politics International Trade and Media Wars written by Mwanaka , Tendai Rinos and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, Africa VS North America Vol 2, we have 10 essays, 3 fiction pieces, 51 poems, 2 plays from leading and upcoming writers, essayists, academicians and poets from the two regions, Africa and North America and their Diasporas, in these among other countries, USA, Canada, Sweden, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, UK etc…, coming together to transact around issues to do with the nationalism espoused by Donald Trump. Cornell dissects issues to do with blackness and racism using Fanon’s theories, Nyongesa deals with the Fetishism of Donald Trump’s policies known colloquially as Trumpism, Opicho calls it ‘inoracy’, Donald Trump’s statement, “Shit-hole”, some essayists took to the personal narrative you would find in Mhondera and Kantey’s essays, yet Pravda used the middle ground between playwriting, Filmmaking and the essay form, Ofodile investigates the problematic issue of Boko Horam terrorism in North Nigeria, Bearly looks at capitalism, so does Koffi with his French Language essay which is also translated into English, Ifeachor in his poem has praise for Donald Trump, Hall goes back to apartheid South Africa period and as a direct tangent Matshoba deals with Xenophobia in his letter written from the future. Smith looks at the white supremacist demonstrations, for or against Trump, Thompson and Swanson encourage us to unfocus on Donald Trump, and Thompson rightly blames us for allowing the likes of Donald Trump and the kind of Nationalism and Capitalism he stands for to grow. Thus this collection of writings is rich, robust and very interesting and will be invaluable to scholarship to do with Nationalism, Capitalism, Media freedoms, Global Politics, Racism and International trade.
Download or read book Because Sadness is Beautiful written by Tanaka Chidora and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tanaka Chidora writes with the nerve and verve of firework displays in these poems. There is a peace armed to the teeth here, and over there words are just fugitives scuttling away from the recognition of the reader. Through this burst of iron vocabulary discipline, the poet suggests that even if sadness could be all we are left with, we still need to give sadness a try until it becomes beautiful, because sadness has always been beautiful, anyway." - Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe
Download or read book Shona proverbs written by Ngwabi Bhebe and published by Booklove Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting both the range of philosophical issues that Shona proverbs raise and the shared concerns emanating from them, this book is the outcome of 40 years work by Taperesa Mutematemi Samaita, a teacher at Mnene Boys Central Primary School in Mberengwa District from 1946 to 1949. Shona proverbs teaching formed part of his Shona lessons and he encouraged his pupils to collect as many Shona proverbs as possible. When collected, these were first analytically dealt with orally, then followed by written exercises. From its beginning at Mnene Boys Central Primary School the project continued until 1986. The proverbs contained in this book were gathered from across Zimbabwe covering Midlands, Masvingo, Manicaland and Mashonal and West Provinces. Of the 5240 Shona proverbs Taperesa Mutematemi Samaita collected 2736 are included in this book which adds to the existing inventory of proverbs by including modern proverbs that earlier collections had not included. By also including Ndau proverbs the book broadens the parameters of the Shona language by recognising that the language does not only get enriched through contact with the West but by lexical diversity within its dialects.
Download or read book Shona Sentential Names A Brief Overview written by Jacob Mapara and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the case of the Shona and other Bantu people of Africa to argue that names are not mere identity tags. Names are an important cultural symbol of the people who give and bear them. The book challenges linguists and other social scientists to pay particular attention to the significance of names in the study of language use in society. Equally, it demonstrates the importance of names as part of the distinctive repertoire of Shona cultural heritage. Each Shona sentential name is a statement about that reality of being Shona. Carried in each name are sentiments that reflect on prevalent social, economic and political relations. The book focuses in particular on social names, religious names and war names inspired by such events as Zimbabwe's war of liberation.
Download or read book Contrastive Rhetoric in Shona and English written by Juliet Thondhlana and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of the learner's mother tongue on the use of a second language has long been of interest within applied linguistics. Whilst most studies have focused on the sentence level, contrastive rhetoric has broadened this area of investigation to the levels of discourse and text. This study explores and applies the approach to written English and Shona of Shona native speakers in Zimbabwe. It is both theoretical and practical, highlighting the importance of multi-dimensional andnon-evaluative analytical frameworks, and providing information for second language teachers and learners.
