Tag: Chenjerai Hove
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Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2015: A look back
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair has had better times. It was started in 1983 with the support of a new country led by Robert Mugabe and became the go-to festival in the Eastern and Southern part of the continent. The Zimbabwean crisis of the noughties that saw the country suffer some of the worst inflation…
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Authors give tributes to late Zimbabwean author and poet Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean author, poet, and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in Mazvihwa in 1956 leaves a wife and six children. Hove began life as a teacher before working as an editor for Mambo Press then devoted his life to writing. His works include Masimba Avanhu (1986),…