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  • Throwback Thursday: Zimbabwean author and poet Dambudzo Marechera.

    Throwback Thursday: Zimbabwean author and poet Dambudzo Marechera.

    In the return of our “Throwback Thursday” segment, we feature legendary late Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera. Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet who was born on June 4, 1952. His first book, written while in England, was House of Hunger a collection of a novella of 80-odd pages which…