Dambudzo Marechera

Poet, playwright, novelist. Born in Zimbabwe.

[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

Austin Kaluba writes to Samantha again https://t.co/9P7cbDdqNe

[Cde Never Maswerasei 🇿🇼 @CdeNMaswerasei]

These are the people that deserve roads like Enterprise Road being renamed after them not mbavha. If I had the power, I would rename it Dambudzo Marechera Road to solve there error once and for all.

[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

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[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

London. 1978.

[Sharon Mazingaizo @sharonmufaro]

If only I could be half the writer Dambudzo Marechera was. I would have reached the pinnacle.

[Oxford Brookes University @oxford_brookes]

.@brookespoetry has teamed up with @TORCHOxford to tell the story of how Dambudzo Marechera rose from being a tent-dwelling uni reject to an internationally acclaimed author. Check out https://t.co/YQeLotnNcF @ArtsatOFS

[Froggy's Delight @Froggydelight]

[LeCTuRe] La maison de la faim - Dambudzo Marechera
"C’est un livre coup de poings que nous proposent les éditions Zoé autour de l’histoire pleine de fureur d’un jeune homme au cœur du Zimbabwe avant l’indépendance. "
https://t.co/dtRIwahcww

[Shrieking Tinman @phased_bemused]

Just failed to Google this poem using the phrase "pellucid cameos", so for ease of me finding this in the future, this is a poem about the Brixton Riots by the Zimbabwean-born poet and (iirc) participant in the riot, Dambudzo Marechera

[English Faculty Library (EFL) @EFLOxford]

Dambudzo Marechera camped at Port Meadow, and there wrote his critically acclaimed book The House of Hunger.

Junior Research Fellow @tinsmush has curated a display on this 20th Century Zimbabwean writer. It combines Bodleian items and items from Dr Mushakavanhu's own collection!

[Cynthia Marangwanda @cynthiamarang]

Beautiful review of my novella Shards by Memory Chirere, a Zimbabwean literary great. He writes that my writing "carries close and vigorous...echoes of (famed Zimbabwean writer) Dambudzo Marechera" and he also delves into various parts of the story.
https://t.co/BaN0z73NfG

[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

New College, Oxford, hangs portrait of Zimbabwean Dambudzo Marechera in Hall https://t.co/l5atYzdjCu

[Ben Morrin @BenMorrin]

Decent to see a fresh face on the wall at new college. Dambudzo Marechera. A rule breaker who needed to be one. @ninamaefowler great picture

[Retired Elder Rex M.E Midzi @RexMidzi]

"Dreams are made by individuals, not by political parties."

- Dambudzo Marechera-

[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

veit wild stole marechera's legacy from zimbabwe upon his death then continued a longstanding western tradition of distorting the author's work https://t.co/kJVariLotB

[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

long before he wrote his 1978 magnum opus marechera was a figured of a simmering youth uprising that rocked white rhodesia https://t.co/LR8UwAEz3H

[Dambudzo Marechera @dmarechera]

veit wild stole marechera's legacy from zimbabwe upon his death then continued a longstanding western tradition of distorting the author's work https://t.co/kJVariLotB

[Iain Smith @IainSmithNZ]

Today’s new arrival is a smash and grab, like Marechera’s life. He died at 35.

[Joseph @thethoughtofth1]

Marechera was writing like this at 26 😮‍💨

[Joseph @thethoughtofth1]

Dambudzo Marechera is my biggest revelation since Clarice Lispector. African writers in the 70’s were breaking into territories of art & thought way beyond our current western discourse(s). Please please please read Marechera. (Also, Death in Venice is sick).