Musaemura Zimunya
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Musaemura Bonas Zimunya is one of Zimbabwe's most important contemporary writers. Born in 1949 in Mutare, he has taught at the University of Zimbabwe since 1980, and became Professor of English. Zimunya's poetry is lyrical in its love of both the natural environment and humankind, but much of his work is also highly political. He writes bitingly of the 'Benzocrats' who enriched themselves in the name of Independence, carried by the people they claimed to be liberating. Most of his published work is in English, but he also writes in Shona.
Bibliography
Poetry
Thought Tracks Longman, 1982. ISBN 0-582-78560-XKingfisher, Jikinya and other poems Longman Zimbabwe, 1982. ISBN 0-582-60988-7
Country Dawns and City Lights Longman Zimbabwe, 1985. ISBN 0-582-89525-1
Perfect Poise College Press, 1993. ISBN 1-779-00147-9
Selected Poems Longman, 1995
Short stories
Nightshift Longman, 1993. ISBN 1-779-03076-2Literary criticism
Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe 1982. ISBN 0-869-22183-3As editor
And Now the Poets Speak Mambo Press, 1981. With Mudereri Khadani. Anthology of Zimbawean poets. ISBN B-000-0EDXW-2The Fate of Vultures: New Poetry of Africa Heinemann International, 1989. With Kofi Anyidoho and Peter Porter. ISBN 0-435-90550-3
Birthright: Selection of Poems from Southern Africa Longman International Education, 1990. ISBN 0-582-89523-5 Anthology of African poets
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