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Chenjerai Hove
Biography
Born near Zvishavane in 1956, poet, novelist and social commentator Chenjerai Hove lived in exile in Europe toward the end of his life.
Chenjerai hove born
His critical social and political commentary in the weekly newspaper The Standard (2000-2002) gave rise to threats that he was forced to take seriously. For a creative writer who cared deeply about his country’s welfare, leaving was a moment of profound loss.
And yet for a writer for whom ideals were central, such loss was intensified by what he believed to be a betrayal of governance in an independent Zimbabwe.
Chenjerai Hove’s four volumes of poetry – Up in Arms (1982), Red Hills of Home (1985), Rainbows in the Dust (1998) and Blind Moon (2003) – reflect the progression of his ideas and experiences from the hot anger and challenge to colonial repression, through the scrupulous observation of the effects of liberation war on rural communities, to disillusion and bitterness over the fai