Expelled by Oxford, Now Hanging on Its Walls: Marechera’s Unlikely Return?

Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwe’s fiercely unconventional literary icon, a writer who refused intellectual obedience, rejected easy labels and transformed the turbulence of colonial and post-colonial Africa into uncompromising literature. In the…

‘Dambudzo Marechera Gave Me HIV’: Inside Flora Veit-Wild’s Love Triangle

By Gabriel Manyati In 1987, as Harare’s Jacaranda trees shed their purple petals across the Zimbabwean capital, German scholar Flora Veit-Wild stood inside a local clinic and listened to a…