Andrew Chatora, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/andrewchatora/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:27:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Andrew Chatora, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/andrewchatora/ 32 32 67616479 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/ngugi-wa-thiongo-decolonial-icon-writer-and-mwalimu-a-voice-silenced-but-never-forgotten-an-obituary/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/ngugi-wa-thiongo-decolonial-icon-writer-and-mwalimu-a-voice-silenced-but-never-forgotten-an-obituary/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:58:00 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573730 Behold, a great mountain has fallen! A titan of African Literature, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has passed on. A pioneering writer who told the African story relentlessly, he critiqued colonialism and the excesses of post-independence governments, with wild abandon. The inimitable Ngũgĩ, go well, son of the soil.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/vazhures-weeping-tomato-an-intrepid-tale-of-interconnected-binary-opposites-a-review-by-andrew-chatora/feed/ 0 573665 David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/david-chasumbas-behind-the-facade-other-short-stories-a-review/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/david-chasumbas-behind-the-facade-other-short-stories-a-review/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:48:58 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573459 David Chasumba’s latest short story collection sweeps through immigrant lives, racism and moral duplicity. Chasumba is a master of understatement, keenly alert to his society’s flaws and follies without strongarming the reader into ready conclusions.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/david-chasumbas-behind-the-facade-other-short-stories-a-review/feed/ 0 573459 Gone With The Blue Zodiac – A rich mosaic of the Zimbabwean cultural richness and sensibility https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/gone-with-the-blue-zodiac-a-rich-mosaic-of-the-zimbabwean-cultural-richness-and-sensibility/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/gone-with-the-blue-zodiac-a-rich-mosaic-of-the-zimbabwean-cultural-richness-and-sensibility/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:22:21 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573370 Immersive family drama, minutiae inner fabric of Zimbabwean society, cultural richness and heritage all find a place in Tafadzwa Z. Taruvinga’s debut novel: Gone With the Blue Zodiac writes Andrew Chatora

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/gone-with-the-blue-zodiac-a-rich-mosaic-of-the-zimbabwean-cultural-richness-and-sensibility/feed/ 0 573370 Black and Female in Corporate America – “The Other Black Girl” TV show review https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-other-black-girl-walks-viewers-through-black-trauma-and-systemic-racism-at-the-workplace/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-other-black-girl-walks-viewers-through-black-trauma-and-systemic-racism-at-the-workplace/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:17:12 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573312 The Other Black Girl walks viewers through black trauma and systemic racism at the workplace. Based on Zakiya Dalila Harris’ novel of the same title, the Hulu show explores the place of femininity and the black woman in corporate America. To what extent, Reviewer Andrew Chatora asks, does one compromise themselves to curry favour with the establishment if only it comes with the material trappings of servile collaboration with the other.

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