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Navigating Zimbabwe and her Diaspora: Through the Years Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories

 

When it reaches the bookshops in your neighbourhood this February 2024 you may see that Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories offers a fine assembly of different tones, voices, and settings, giving a view of a Zimbabwe and her Diaspora that is multifaceted writes Tariro Ndoro.

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Chatora Opens Window to Colony, Empire Experiences in New Book

The author of “Diaspora Dreams” has temporarily quit the novel to give us this charmed confluence of the novella, the short story, the vignette, and the poetic essay.

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Who Needs a Writer? There is More to Writing than Dollars and Cents

Zimbabwean novelist Andrew Chatora is a chronicler of unofficial history and the migrant experience. His debut novella, Diaspora Dreams, was published on March 25, 2021, by U.S-based Kharis Publishing. It was followed, in the same year, by Where the Heart Is, and now, the newly released Harare Voices and Beyond is causing ructions globally. Chatora celebrates the second anniversary of Diaspora Dreams with an essay about writerly commitment and instrumental reason.

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Navigating New Identities – A Review of Andrew Chatora’s "Diaspora Dreams"

 

Since Zimbabwe’s transition into a migratory nation, many Zimbabwean authors have dealt with the migrant question, Brian Chikwava’s Harare North and Sue Nyathi’s Gold Diggers being two stellar examples. Andrew Chatora’s debut novel Diaspora Dreams navigates new identities that Zimbabweans living in the diaspora are forced to assume and new challenges they must overcome to survive.

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Diaspora Dreams Conceptualizations-Inspiration – Up Close with Andrew Chatora

“Kundai loses it all and his subsequent charmed incantations and chants while in an English madhouse, are the most revealing part of this novel. As a result, Diaspora Dreams could be of interest to those who study the male psyche and manhood. The losing black male is still a dark area, rich with distances to […]

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KwaChirere Previews "Where the Heart Is", a Novel by Andrew Chatora

 

The fast-rising UK-based Zimbabwean writer, Andrew Chatora, has a second novel in the wings. It is set to be released soon on November 30, 2021 by his US-based publishers, Kharis Publishing.

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‘‘Home is Where One Is’’ – A Review of Andrew Chatora’s Where the Heart Is

The identity and location of “home” are fiendishly complex matters. Andrew Chatora’s new novel: “Where the Heart Is” tackles an important issue, the experiences of those in the diaspora and the unmitigated longing for the familiar comforts of “home.”

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The Breaking of Our Tribe: A Review of "Where the Heart Is" by Andrew Chatora

“Where the Heart Is”, Andrew Chatora’s second offering, paints the picture of a broken tribe. However, the tribe Chatora explores is the tribe of Zimbabweans who left the country in the early 2000s to seek greener pastures in the United Kingdom.

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