Dambudzo marechera biography of christopher columbus

Zimbabwean writer (1952–1987)

Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet.

His short career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry (also posthumous). His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.

Dambudzo Marechera was born in and grew up during racial discrimination, poverty, and violence in pre-independence Zimbabwe.

Dambudzo Marechera was born in and grew up during racial discrimination, poverty, and violence in pre-independence Zimbabwe.

When Marechera was asked what inspired him as an African writer, of course they wanted him to say, 'African history', or 'African culture', but.

CEMETERY OF MIND: A Coll, by Dambudzo Marechera CHRISTOPHER.

Christopher Columbus introduces sugarcane in Hispaniola during his second voyage to the Americas.

The title is inspired by dambudzo Marechera's cult novel that was banned in Zimbabwe in for being obscene and Euro-centric.

Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.

Early life and education

Marechera was born on 4 June 1952 in Vengere Township, Rusape, Southern Rhodesia, to Isaac Marechera, a mortuary attendant, and Masvotwa Venenzia Marechera, a maid. He was the child of Shona parents from the eastern-central part of Rhodesia.^[c