Zim creatives in Germany for book fest

SOME renowned local artists, among them celebrated authors and filmmakers, Tsitsi Dangarembga and seasoned poet Chirikure Chirikure, are in Germany for this year’s second edition of the three-day African Book Festival that roared to life yesterday and will run until tomorrow in Berlin.

Dangarembga will be a curator at this year’s edition of the festival, running under the theme Transitioning from Migration, is an Initiative for More Diversity, Both in Literature and Politics, which will also feature Bulawayo poet John Eppel.

Chirikure told NewsDay Life & Style before his departure that there would be a special commemoration of the late prolific writer Charles Mungoshi today, where five local writers would read their favourite Mungoshi poems.

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