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What Ado About Culture? Chirikure’s Exposition of Past Shona Practices and Values in Selected Zimbabwean Post-independence Poems
Known for his unwavering criticism of politico-economic misdemeanours, Chirikure Chirikure also focuses on past Shona practices and values in Rukuvhute (1990) and Hakurarwi (1998). Using the Afrocentricity approach, this article analyses his portrayal of these values and practices in selected poems. It observes that he exploits several techniques to criticise the repudiation of what he regards as “life-sustaining” practices and values. However, in Rukuvhute his yearning and hope for the observance of past practices and values seems no longer possible. In Hakurarwi his bleak portrayal of the future strikes the reader as a weakness. The article urges artists to assist society choose best practices and values from the past and as well to remain hopeful in their approach to life.
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Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is published bi-annually by Routledge. Current Writing focuses on recent writing and re-publication of texts on southern African and (from a ''southern'' perspective) commonwealth and/or postcolonial literature and literary-culture. Works of the past and near-past must be assessed and evaluated through the lens of current reception. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees of international stature in the field. The journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.