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Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, [3] with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most common. Zimbabwe is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San, and was settled by Bantu peoples around 2,000 years ago.
Zimbabwean literature is literature produced by authors from Zimbabwe or in the Zimbabwean Diaspora.The tradition of literature starts with a long oral tradition, was influenced heavily by western literature that influenced multiple countries in the same region such as Malawi and Zambia whereby these three countries have very similar languages and a lot of words seem to be quite similar only ...
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"Glory" is a novel that tells the story of a fictional country's journey towards liberation after the downfall of Old Horse, its longtime dictator. Inspired by the real-life coup that ended Robert Mugabe's nearly four-decade rule in Zimbabwe in 2017, the book is a vibrant and imaginative take on a nation in transition, as told by a group of ...
Zimunya has published one collection of short stories, Nightshift (1993), and a volume of literary criticism. His work has also been published in British and Amerikan anthologies, in Kizito Muchemwas Zimbabwean Poetry in English (1978), and in the collection he co-edited with Mudereri Khadani , And Now the Poets Speak (1981).
Zimbabwean English (ZimE; en-ZIM; en-ZW) is a regional variety of English found in Zimbabwe.While the majority of Zimbabweans speak Shona (75%) and Ndebele (18%) as a first language, standard English is the primary language used in education, government, commerce and media in Zimbabwe, giving it an important role in society. [2]
Kristina Rungano (1963– ), first published woman poet in Zimbabwe Joe Ruzvidzo (1979– ), journalist and short-story writer [ 10 ] Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988), historian and novelist [Gikandi] [Jahn]
In its first decade, it published over two hundred books by women, in English, Shona and Ndebele. [3] In 1990 a few women writers formed Zimbabwe Women Writers (ZWW) to promote women's writings in the country. It now has 600 members and 56 branches in both the rural and urban areas throughout the country. [4]