SELECT PRINT REVIEWS & REVIEW ESSAYS
SELECT PRINT REVIEWS & REVIEW ESSAYS
2021
Nanjala Nyabola, Travelling While Black, Wasafiri 36 (3), pp. 102-103.
2020
Panashe Chigumadzi, These Bones will Rise Again, Wasafiri 35 (1), pp. 84-85.
2017
“The laughers and the wailers”, review of Petina Gappah’s Rotten Row, Zimbabwe Review 17 (3), p. 15.
2015
Ernst N. Emonyonou (ed), African Literature Today 30: Reflections & Retrospectives, Africa 85 (2), pp. 282-283.
2013
“What is not yours”, Wasafiri 76, pp. 78-80.
2013
“At Home in the World in Postcolonial Lusaka”, Journal of Southern African Studies 39 (2), pp. 481-484.
2010
“Southern States: New Literature from and about Southern Africa”, Journal of Southern African Studies 36 (1), pp. 247-253.
2010
M. Samuelson, Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? and C. Zabus, Beetween Rites and Rights, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46 (1), pp. 122-124.
2009
Review essay on recent Zimbabwean fiction, The Warwick Review, December, pp. 14-22.
2007
“Nightmares and Butterflies: Family, Nation and Self in Four Recent Postcolonial Novels”, Wasafiri 51, pp. 81-84.
2005
N. Rasebotsa, M. Samuelson and K. Thomas (eds), Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa and I. Staunton (ed),
Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe, The Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (2), pp. 463-466.
2003
C. L. Larson, The Ordeal of the African Writer and A. E. Willey and J. Triber (eds), Emerging Perspectives on Tsitsi Dangarembga: Negotiating the Postcolonial, Interventions 5 (3), pp. 452-454.
2000
F. Weit-Wild and A. Chennells (eds), Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera, Interventions 2 (2), pp. 294-296.
SELECT JOURNALISM, BLOGS & OTHER
SELECT JOURNALISM, BLOGS & OTHER
2021
‘You only need the mbira’ – T. L. Huchu’s The Library of the Dead, Africa in Words https://africainwords.com/2021/05/27/review-you-only-need-the-mbira-t-l-huchus-the-library-of-the-dead/
2020
‘Undead hordes rising from their graves to eat my brains’ – African Time, World Literature and Tade Thompson’s Rosewater, Aké Review, Vol. 7, pp. 114-115.
2020
Zimbabwe’s Substitutions: What Difference would a Good or Bad Past Make? Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone’, Africa in Words https://africainwords.com/2020/07/14/review-zimbabwes-substitutions-or-what-difference-would-a-good-or-bad-past-make-novuyo-rose-tshumas-house-of-stone-2018/
2018
‘Prague is for Dancers” – The Fortunate Traveller (https://www.fortunatetraveller.com/prague-is-for-dancers-by-ranka-primorac/)
2017
‘The Caine Prize and the African Republic of Letters’- The Caine Prize Judges blog
2017
‘African literature is opening itself up to the world’- Aké Arts & Literature Festival participant interview
2015
‘Acts of Mutiny: the Caine Prize and “African Literature”’- Caine Prize blog
https://africainwords.com/2015/08/14/acts-of-mutiny-the-caine-prize-and-african-literature/
2013
‘Our Greatest Writer?’, co-authored with Kalunga Lutato, Bulletin & Record, Lusaka, May, pp. 30-31.
2010
“The Book Café goes Global”, The Zimbabwean 25 February, p. 14.
2008-9
occasional literary blog in Guardian online (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books)
2006-8
“Writing Africa” – occasional literary column in The Zimbabwean
2007
“Poised for literature’s last laugh”, Mail & Guardian (South Africa), 3 May.
2006
“African Art in Paris” (co-authored with Stephen Chan), The Zimbabwean 17-23 August, p. 17.
2006
“Yvonne Vera: Writer and Critic of the Mugabe Regime” (an obituary, co-authored with Stephen Chan), The Independent, UK, 15 April.
1995/6
regular weekly film column in The Sunday Mail Magazine, Harare