Scrap iron blues dambudzo marechera biography

There’s an intimacy, a familiarity with writers and their readers unlike any other relationship. They allow us access to their lives. And not just their peripheral existences, but their deepest fears, their most uncomfortable memories, their subconscious motivations, their haven’t-yet-showered morning mirror reflections.

They allow us to know them without us actually knowing them.

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They give us their lives. We give them our attention.

And, when a writer dies, they leave behind a dichotomous legacy that’s equal parts surreal and…tender. You mourn their death while appreciating the fact that their work — the thing that made them so vibrant, so kinetic, so alive — is immortal.

One of Zimbabwe&#;s and Africa&#;s greatest literary minds Dambudzo Marechera would have been 62 today.

Dambudzo Marechera might have died years ago. But Dambudzo Marechera will always be here. He will continue to teach.

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He will continue to challenge. He will continue to inspire. He will continue to be. His le