Writer Rueben Pakaenda Dies
"YOUNG writer Reuben Pakaenda has died", reports Memory Chirere in The Herald of May 27, 2008.
"His friends in the Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe (BWAZ) across the country", writes Chirere, "will sorely miss him."
Exerpt:
Rarely do young men and women leave their beer and fashion shows and hole themselves up in the lonely business of writing.
Writing in Zimbabwe does not pay. It fares very badly when put against the lure of selling five litre pitchers of petrol by the road side.
But Reuben would not quit. He knew the power of art as a tool.
In 2004, he eventually published 13 brilliant poems in the ZPH anthology called Zviri Muchinokoro Kunaka! alongside his heroes, Ignatius Mabasa and Chirikure Chirikure.
Read the rest of Chirere's article here.
"His friends in the Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe (BWAZ) across the country", writes Chirere, "will sorely miss him."
Exerpt:
Rarely do young men and women leave their beer and fashion shows and hole themselves up in the lonely business of writing.
Writing in Zimbabwe does not pay. It fares very badly when put against the lure of selling five litre pitchers of petrol by the road side.
But Reuben would not quit. He knew the power of art as a tool.
In 2004, he eventually published 13 brilliant poems in the ZPH anthology called Zviri Muchinokoro Kunaka! alongside his heroes, Ignatius Mabasa and Chirikure Chirikure.
Read the rest of Chirere's article here.
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