Memory Chirere
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Book review: Chinua Achebe’s minor works
Achebe’s novels tend to overshadow his children’s stories, especially Chike and the River and his book of poems called Beware Soul Brother.
By Memory Chirere
Feb. 11, 2024
Book review: Shards
From my very close experience with students of literature in Zimbabwe, the excitement with Marechera is more pronounced in young men than in women.
By Memory Chirere
Feb. 25, 2024
Kara’s novel rare story about Indian migrants in Southern Rhodesia
It is a carefully crafted story about sojourning and transitioning. You are stunned that such a mature piece of work is only a debut attempt.
By Memory Chirere
Mar. 24, 2024
Book review: Chirere focuses on three books whose characters are boys in distress
Memory Chirere is a Zimbabwean writer. He enjoys reading and writing short stories and some of his stories are published in No More Plastic Balls (1999), A
By Memory Chirere
Mar. 31, 2024
Book Review: Memory Chirere reads Tanaka Chidora's Because Sadness is Beautiful?
Tanaka Chidora’s first book of poems in English, Because Sadness is Beautiful? dazzles with that question mark at the end of the title.
By Memory Chirere
Apr. 14, 2024
Portrait of Emlanjeni: A review by Memory Chirere
In what many will be able to call an environmental novel, Emlanjeni in Matobo, is integral to the story and it becomes one of the major and very active characters.
By Memory Chirere
Apr. 21, 2024
Bookreview: Robert Mukondiwa’s book: Oliver Mtukudzi and me: A Life in Song and Media
You quickly sense that this could be a complicated book; now operating from under the water, now floating on the surface and sometimes having to become the water itself!
By Memory Chirere
May. 26, 2024
Comrade Editor: On Life, Journalism and the birth of Namibia by Gwen Lister
Coming out in 2021, it is a multipronged book, chronicling the life of the journalist and activist and her critical views on the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Namibia.
By Memory Chirere
Jun. 2, 2024
Stanley Nyamfukudza and the Zimbabwe of the early 1980's: Memory Chirere's reflections
Aftermaths is a natural sequel to Nyamfukudza’s war-time novel, The Non-Believer’s Journey
By Memory Chirere
Jun. 9, 2024
Memory Chirere reviews ‘is this Love?’ a book written by Yvonne Vera’s mother Ericah Gwetai
Just picture this situation: A man is dancing gracefully with his wife, Nyasha, on the dance floor at a birthday party. It is a great day. Then his wife’s earring falls.
By Memory Chirere
Aug. 4, 2024
Book review: A rare birthday present that inspired Rutendo to write books
This is how Rutendo came to write Rachel and the Enchanted Forest, published in October 2020 when she was 12, effectively making her a child-writer.
By Memory Chirere
Aug. 25, 2024
Reading Mia Couto’s unique short stories: A review by Memory Chirere
In this transcendental story, Chinawoman Mississe comes all the way from China to own a store
By Memory Chirere
Nov. 10, 2024
