Terence Ranger and the Jagged Geometry of Zimbabwe
Percy Zvomuya celebrates the thoughts and texts of groundbreaking historian Terence Ranger, who died on 2 January 2015 In 2004, after Terence Ranger had delivered a paper at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (Wiser), I went up to him to greet him, make a few comments about his lecture and introduce myself […]
‘I Fuck With Every Book’
A true masterpiece always finds its way and place in the world through the mixture that sheer chance, a shrunken world and a second-hand bookshop makes possible. That’s the way Argentinean writer Carlos María Domínguez’s House of Paper came to my notice. The novel, about a man driven to madness by his obsession […]