“THE INVENTION OF ZIMBABWE” JHB LAUNCH

 Join us in welcoming the new issue of Chronic with Kudzanai Chiurai, Danai Mupotsa, Robert Machiri, Mike Tigere Mavura.

 Wed 18 April; from 6pm

African Flavour Books, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

 See you there!

Artwork by Chi Machiri read more in his brief history, with Mike Mavura, on the totems of Zimbabwe’s historical heavyweights and their impact in the world of sounds in the new issue of the Chronic.

 

The new issue of the Chronic, “The Invention of Zimbabwe”, writes Zimbabwe beyond white fears and the Africa-South conundrum.

The accompanying books magazine, XiBARUU TEERE YI (Chronic Books in Wolof) asks the urgent question: What can African Writers Learn from Cheikh Anta Diop?

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