More pictures from the symposium can now be viewed here: Picasa Photos
and here:
Flickr Photos
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The University of Oxford is pleased to announce an inter-disciplinary symposium to celebrate the life and work of Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) and contemporary
southern African writing.
Co-organized by:
Dobrota Pucherova & Prof. Elleke Boehmer
Faculty of English, University of Oxford
Sponsored by:
- John Fell Fund, University of Oxford
- Faculty of English, University of Oxford
- Journal of Southern African Studies
- British Council Zimbabwe
- Wasafiri
- African Writing
- Britain-Zimbabwe Society
- The Dambudzo Marechera Trust
NEWS
June 13, 2009
Pictures from the symposium can now be viewed here:
Picasa Photos
and here:
Flickr Photos
11 April 2009
You can now read more about the Oxford University production of Marechera's Servants' Ball and Blitzkrieg HERE.
6 April 2009
Full schedule has now been added. Please go to the Programme page.
3 April 2009
We are proud to announce that Brian Chikwava's debut novel, Harare North (Jonathan Cape, 2009), will be launched at the symposium. Set in Brixton in south London, th novel offers a view of London as seen through the eyes of Zimbabwean immigrants. Read more about the novel and its inspiration at BBC News.
16 March 2009
You can now view the paintings in memory of Dambudzo Marechera, created by Fisani Nkomo specially for the Celebration, on the Projects page. The paintings will be on sale at the festival. To reserve, email dobrota.pucherova@trinity.ox.ac.uk.
"Tony and the Rasta." Oil on canvas. © Fisani Nkomo, 2009.
Fisani Nkomo (born in 1971 in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe) is a self-trained artist specialising in abstract and mixed-media painting. His works discuss social, political and socio-economic issues. He has exhibited at the Harare International Festival of the Arts and National Gallery in Bulawayo, among others. He was the winner of the second prize at the 2005 Isigodlo Samakkhosi Exhibition.
2 February 2009
We are very pleased to announce Comrade Fatso, one of the most popular and controversial poets in the Zimbabwe arts scene, as a guest at the symposium. Comrade Fatso, who will perform his poetry in tribute to Marechera, calls his art "Toyi Toyi Poetry, radical street poetry that mixes Shona with English and mbira with hip hop. It's an art form that is an uprising against the bloody ZANU (PF) regime."
19 November 2008
Advice on travel and accommodation in Oxford has now been added - please go to the Registration page.
Sponsored by:
- John Fell Fund, University of Oxford
- Faculty of English, University of Oxford
- Journal of Southern African Studies
- British Council Zimbabwe
- Wasafiri
- African Writing
- Britain-Zimbabwe Society
- The Dambudzo Marechera Trust
NEWS
June 13, 2009
Pictures from the symposium can now be viewed here: Picasa Photos
and here:
Flickr Photos
11 April 2009
You can now read more about the Oxford University production of Marechera's Servants' Ball and Blitzkrieg HERE.
6 April 2009
Full schedule has now been added. Please go to the Programme page.
3 April 2009
We are proud to announce that Brian Chikwava's debut novel, Harare North (Jonathan Cape, 2009), will be launched at the symposium. Set in Brixton in south London, th novel offers a view of London as seen through the eyes of Zimbabwean immigrants. Read more about the novel and its inspiration at BBC News.
16 March 2009
You can now view the paintings in memory of Dambudzo Marechera, created by Fisani Nkomo specially for the Celebration, on the Projects page. The paintings will be on sale at the festival. To reserve, email dobrota.pucherova@trinity.ox.ac.uk.
Fisani Nkomo (born in 1971 in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe) is a self-trained artist specialising in abstract and mixed-media painting. His works discuss social, political and socio-economic issues. He has exhibited at the Harare International Festival of the Arts and National Gallery in Bulawayo, among others. He was the winner of the second prize at the 2005 Isigodlo Samakkhosi Exhibition.
2 February 2009
We are very pleased to announce Comrade Fatso, one of the most popular and controversial poets in the Zimbabwe arts scene, as a guest at the symposium. Comrade Fatso, who will perform his poetry in tribute to Marechera, calls his art "Toyi Toyi Poetry, radical street poetry that mixes Shona with English and mbira with hip hop. It's an art form that is an uprising against the bloody ZANU (PF) regime."
19 November 2008
Advice on travel and accommodation in Oxford has now been added - please go to the Registration page.