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When Escape Becomes the Only Lover

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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When Escape Becomes the Only Lover

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

When Escape Becomes the only Lover is a continuation and crystallization of issues dealt with in A Portrait of Defiance. The poet deals with a broad subject matter, love in all its forms, spirituality; this spirituality is individual it is the artist’s spiritual world. He deals with dreams, voice, word, numbers, poet’s vocation, wars, language, etc… He is the prophet of his dreams, his world, his future… There is strong experimentation and innovativeness in the writing, in the text, in form, in style, in content matter, the writer is a discoverer, every horizon is a life horizon. There is the dissecting of that space where art criticism meets art mimesis, and this space is offered as the future of art criticism. The storyteller refuses to die thus the collection proffers escape as the ultimate lover who can help us deal with the insanities of our time.

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1779064926

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Logbook written by a drifter

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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Logbook written by a drifter

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

Logbook written by a drifter, is a cycle of interlinked poems that deal with life, spirituality, language, philosophy, love and relationships. A main theme are relationships which have changed the character. Those which the character doesn’t know how to deal with; which have make the character into a wreck, emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually: he is in a small space. This collection encourages us to keep those spaces, spaces of the drift, until we have faced our challenges, after all sometimes drifting is all we can do!

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0797486151

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Zimbabwe: The Blame Game

By: R. Mwanaka

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Zimbabwe: The Blame Game

By: R. Mwanaka

The Blame Game is a cycle of creative non-fiction pieces, pulling the readers through the politics of modern day Zimbabwe. Like in any game, there are players in this game, opposing each other. The game is told through the eyes of one of the players, thus it is subjective. It centres on truthfully trying to find who to blame for Zimbabwes problems, and how to undo all these problems. Finding who to blame should be the beginning for the search of solutions. It encourages talking to each other, maybe about the wrongs we have done to each other, and genuinely trying to embrace and forgive each other. In trying to undo the problems in Zimbabwe, it also offers insight or solutions on a larger platform Africa: particularly South Africa; that it might learn from other African countries that have imploded before it, how to solve its own problems.

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African Books Collective

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9956790087

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A Dark Energy

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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A Dark Energy

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

Don is the only child of a happy family full of love, but it does not last. At 6 years old Don’s parents are burned in a fire through arson, and suspects his father’s brother is the culprit. As the family fights over his father's wealth nobody wants anything to do with Don, particularly the Uncle whom he suspects of arson and ends up taking most of his father’s wealth. After a difficult upbringing in orphanages and living with an abusive old man Don starts working as an agent in Central Investigations Organisation, Zimbabwe’s security intelligence organisation. Despite this apparent success Don never deals with the existential dilemmas he has as a result of his childhood. He becomes a loner, he doesn't believe in love, marriage, or happiness... until he meets Lilian. Soon after he is called into the president’s office to cover up an extramarital affair. When a political rival of the president, the corrupt defence minister, ‘bones’ gets wind of the cover up and unsuccessfully tries to blackmail Don something terrible happens and Don becomes thrown back into the darkness. Straddling literary genres this novel explores themes related to family, love, politics, life and existence. It is the story of a man pushed to breaking point and how that, inevitably, impacts society.

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0797493336

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Zimbolicious: Poetry Anthology: Volume 2

By: R. Mwanaka

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Zimbolicious: Poetry Anthology: Volume 2

By: R. Mwanaka

Poetry is fragments of music thrown into the air. The primary job and aim of a poet is to create these musical notes, to play these musical notes, and the wind will take these fragment notes, sounds, musics into the ears of listeners. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 is one of those winds among many others. As we all are aware of, when the wind travels it has no boundaries, it collects, it deposits, it mixes things up; you never know where that leaf you see the wind carrying will eventually be deposited, is there another wind, another element that is going to move that leaf to another place... We firmly believe it is a good wind. It will be able to push our poetry making in Zimbabwe into other frontiers. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 continues from where we left off with the first Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology we created in 2016. In this Volume 2, we have 77 poems from 30 poets and translators, which include among others; experienced poets, academic poets, street poets, emergent poets, beginning poets, all telling stories associated with what all these poets refer to as home, that is, Zimbabwe. It is an ongoing debate on what is Zimbabwe, what we want our Zimbabwe to be socially, culturally, politically, thus we allowed every opinion space in this anthology, whether us editors agree with them or not. We have poets tackling issues to do with poetry, writing in general, art, place, identity, tradition, struggle, culture, gender, collective understanding, religion, individual, human rights and love, among others.

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9956764698

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A Conversation..., A Contact

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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A Conversation..., A Contact

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

A Conversation…, A Contact has 22 fiction pieces around themes to do with political struggle, love relationships, heartbreaks and the resulting breakdowns, dreams, folklores, life, spirituality, anger, hate, grief, and all sorts of other human breaths.

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0797494405

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A Portfolio of Defiance

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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A Portfolio of Defiance

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

The first thing you will meet in this collection is experimentation and innovativeness in the writing. Poets should be scientists by experimenting with forms, styles, with subject matter too, they should continuously try to find new ways of writing, to problematicise what we have always taken for granted. The second issue is how we understand and critically dissect that point where art criticism and actual art can meet in the poetic form. The third issue is how irreverently the poet treates issues to do with the meaning of words, what words are, how he creates new words, what numbers are, the state of voice, language, thoughts, dreams, perspectives, life, race, death, dreams, spirituality, love etc… The fourth issue is the storytelling tradition that is strong in this collection; the poet is saying poets are also storytellers, who tell a story in condensed form with depth of thought and feeling. The fifth important aspect is defiance. The poet refuses to settle on anything, to accept anything, he is a literary rebel with language, no subject is taboo. A Portfolio of Defiance defiantly looks at the world before voice and the world after voice, and the worlds in between. What will human beings be without voice? Even nothingness has a voice!

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1779064810

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Pearls of Awareness

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Pearls of Awareness

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Pearls of Awareness, contains poems of lyrical pleasure and spiritual upliftment. Its themes of ego-less awareness and awakening wisdom borrows from Buddhist mythical and mysterious teachings, African traditions and Christian Biblical teachings about the interconnectedness of all life, transcending boundaries of self and other, human, tree or animal, the living, the (un)placeable, the dead. The speakers lyrical insights are comforting, even when mysterious, and because of their tone of tranquility and faith, eventually the listener will reach full understanding. Its strengths are its assured pacing of the poems, luminous imagery and wise insights, which brings clarity without explaining, making it work both as a spiritual message and enjoyable lyric.

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9956763675

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Language, Thought, Art and Existence

Creative Nonfictions

By: Mwanaka, Tendai R.

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Language, Thought, Art and Existence

Creative Nonfictions

By: Mwanaka, Tendai R.

This book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa. The collection continues with Zimbabwe’s Tendai Mwanaka’s creative non-fiction ideology of presenting non-fiction in a creative, fresh, easy reading, simple language. With most of the essays driven by personal stories, the author ably renders them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers from the scholarly to the journalistic and the general. The pieces are grouped according to the topics, with the language essays starting the book, followed by thought, existential, and art essays. In tune with the adage the personal is political, Mwanaka lets the personal drive these essays as he tries to investigate and conversationally navigate his thoughts, beliefs, feelings and experience on language, existence and art. This is an invaluable contribution to the academic establishment, social theorists, linguists, literary theorists, journalists, activists and the general readership.

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Langaa RPCIG

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9956762105

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Keys in the River

New and Collected Stories

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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Keys in the River

New and Collected Stories

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

Keys in the River: New and Collected Stories, is a cycle of stories about life, love and spirituality, told as if the reader were sitting and listening to neighbors and friends talking about life. Some stories are tender, even comic; in others, tragedy and outrage lurk. The stories share a common thread, a noble stance in the struggle to find love, freedom, completeness, humanness and satisfaction.

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0797495517

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Finding a Way Home

By: Mwanaka, Tendai. R.

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Finding a Way Home

By: Mwanaka, Tendai. R.

“To say he loved her, or that he loves his parents, don’t get him anywhere closer to how he felt about her. He felt he was a part of her. He came from her. He wouldn’t know how not to love her. He doesn’t even use the term; “I love myself”, to describe the way he feels about himself. “I love myself”, could only be a polarity of, “I don’t love myself”. How he feels about himself can’t be put into words. How he loved his mother couldn’t be put into words like, “Oh yeh, I love her”. But that’s all that he could only say to estimate how he felt. She was his home.” Home is a place in ourselves where we are happy with ourselves, where we find peace with ourselves, where we are satisfied, fulfilled... The important theme coursing through all the stories in the novel, Finding a way home, is that we have to make the journey to find our homes, we have to find the path, and start walking in that path.

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9956762032

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Revolution: Struggle Poems

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Revolution: Struggle Poems

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Revolutionary as a way of solving problems bedevilling our place under the sun, revolutions we witnessed in The Middle East, revolutionary in writing, text, textiness of text, the poetic genre, attitude of mind, ideas, living. Poems in Revolution take the experimental approach as they deal with the above struggle issues and many others. They go further in bringing into focus how our revolutions have not delivered us across the line, and how to get across the line.

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9956762873

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Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child

struggle poems

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

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Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child

struggle poems

By: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

Vote rigging, voter apathy, intimidations, biased reporting, hubristic political leaders, political gerrymandering, a confused world, and a tired and timid electorate: add to this the decay or death of every governance system or structure in Zimbabwe alongside an economy that is all but dead. These are the issues addressed in this poetry collection Mad Bob Republic. Is there an end to Zimbabwe’s problems? The poet contributes to ongoing discourses on the country.

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0797495525

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Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now

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Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now

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Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now, is a follow-up creative non-fiction book to Zimbabwe: The Blame Game. It goes further than The Blame Game and focuses on Zimbabwe in the GNU entity, the 2013 elections, post elections and post GNU Zimbabwe, and Now. They are a myriad number of problems, issues, limitations that still unbundles Zimbabwes push towards multiparty democracy, social justice, economic sanity and growth, and The Urgency of Now focuses on the solutions to these. It also tackles the land reform in South Africa, how this could be its biggest problem going forward. It goes further and tackles the larger Africa problem toward democracy, growth, stability and unity, and why the progress towards the United States of Africa has been moribund.

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9956762601

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It Is Not About Me

Diaries 2010-2011

By: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

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It Is Not About Me

Diaries 2010-2011

By: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

It Is Not About Me: Diaries 2010-2011, is not about the diarist, but provides snapshots of life in Zimbabwe over the 2010-2011 period and during the early years of the Government of National Unity of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government and the smaller MDC-N of Welshman Ncube. 90 incisive diaries cover a full year of grappling with Zimbabwe's slippery politics: the broken economy, the changing social landscape, a moribund culture, spiritual and physical poverty, unrequited love, reading, writing, the condition of the artist and the art of diarizing.

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1779065159

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Shaping Up: Art Drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations

By: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

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Shaping Up: Art Drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations

By: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Shaping Up is more personal and intimate than the author's previous works. The poems and images reflect a period while he was living outside of Zimbabwe, in South Africa. The immigrant experience gives the work a more personal, closed, abstracted feel driven by loneliness of the exilitic condition. Living in the element, uninhibited and careless can help deal with confounding, controversial issues more easily, this theme can be dissected from the drawings to do with sex, sexuality and gender issues. The line breaks, whirls, thins out, sometimes is bold, sometimes is barely there, thus the drawings straddle the tenuousness of time and life.

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1779255802

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Book's by R. Mwanaka

When Escape Becomes the Only Lover

When Escape Becomes the Only Lover

Logbook written by a drifter

Logbook written by a drifter

Zimbabwe: The Blame Game

Zimbabwe: The Blame Game

A Dark Energy

A Dark Energy

Zimbolicious: Poetry Anthology: Volume 2

Zimbolicious: Poetry Anthology: Volume 2

A Conversation..., A Contact

A Conversation..., A Contact

A Portfolio of Defiance

A Portfolio of Defiance

Pearls of Awareness

Pearls of Awareness

Language, Thought, Art and Existence

Language, Thought, Art and Existence

Keys in the River

Keys in the River

Finding a Way Home

Finding a Way Home

Revolution: Struggle Poems

Revolution: Struggle Poems

Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child

Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child

Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now

Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now

It Is Not About Me

It Is Not About Me

Shaping Up: Art Drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations

Shaping Up: Art Drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations

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