“There are keys in the river. Life is one long river, a pretty voice sings.”
Sometime during mid-1994, I started writing essays, poems, and short stories to help me pass the O-level English exams which I had failed a couple of times in the past. I never thought I was writing pieces that would be read; rather, I began writing simply as practice for this important exam, a rite of passage to higher education in Zimbabwe.
The works, however, continued to develop and evolve, as if they were st...
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