Reincarnating Marechera News Today

Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s profile on The Conversation

We interview Counterspace architect and founder Sumayya Vally, who talks about her dreams, inspiration, current reading list, and Johannesburg

Dambudzo Marechera wrote The House of Hunger , in 1978, inspiring a generation of Zimbabweans. (Photograph by Ernst Schade via Humboldt University, courtesy of The Conversation) My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu    ...