The Music of Africa

Play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities.

Suffering, the experience of violation brought on by an act of violence or violent circumstances, is omnipresent in today's world – if only ndirectly through global media representation.

ed. Grant Hamilton

Considered one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers, the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright and essayist Dambudzo Marechera is read today as a significant voice in contemporary world literature. Marechera wrote ceaselessly against the status quo, against unqualified ideas, against expectation. He was an intellectual outsider who found comfort only in the company of other free-thinking writers - Shelley, Bakhtin, Apuleius, Fanon, Dostoyevsky, Tutuola.