Onai Stanely Mushava, Author at This is Africa

Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe

Onai Stanely Mushava — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:32:48 +0000

Recent damning revelations about Zimbabwean superstar, Oliver Mtukudzi’s paternal negligence divided public opinion. This piece revisits the songs Tuku wrote in the heat of his family controversies and libertine adventures. What influence did Kwekwe have on his career over his decade there with his new family and an abused daughter from his first marriage?

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Andrew Chatora on the faultlines of nation-building

Onai Stanely Mushava — Thu, 02 May 2024 10:39:00 +0000

Andrew Chatora’s 2023 novel, Harare Voices and Beyond, interrogates land, race and nationhood in Zimbabwe. Literary journalist Onai Mushava picks apart the allegorical layers of the book.

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Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York

Onai Stanely Mushava — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:14:12 +0000

Andrew Chatora was recently awarded the Anthem Award for championing diversity, equity and inclusion in his work. Chatora's winning novel, Harare Voices and Beyond, interrogates Zimbabwe's land reform discourse as well as drug abuse, mental health crimes, crime and corruption.

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Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya revisits the past under erasure in A Portrait of Emlanjeni

Onai Stanely Mushava — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:25:29 +0000

The idealised landscape of Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s new novel, A Portrait of Emlanjeni, is animated by the spirit of the people, their community ties and abiding regard for tradition. Ngwenya brings the indigenous and official justice systems into conversation, broadening them to make space for women.

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Getting a grip on Borderless Africa’s foot soldiers

Onai Stanely Mushava — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:27:13 +0000

During African Liberation Week, Africans Rising affiliates in 54 countries across the continent and its diaspora took initiatives to campaign for visa-free travel within Africa. This Is Africa caught up with the foot soldiers.

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