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Writers in Bindura: Click to enlarge images

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This is downtown Bindura. I remember a few weeks before I left Zimbabwe in 1996, I spent a lot of time in Bindura. I bought US dollars at a Standard Chartered Bank here(yes, back then the Zim dollar could buy US dollars at an exchange rate of Z$9 is to $1). I was in Bindura because....well, I think I was visiting some friends. No, I was in Bindura for a writers's workshop at Chipindura High School, where one of my friends was a teacher of English Literature. The workshop was sponsored by BWAZ and was designed to benefit the students and the Bindura BWAZ members. Below is a photo of the the workshop: . The workshop facilitator in the middle is Memory Chirere! Below is a photo of Chipindura High School, where we held the workshop in April 1996: . Yet another Chipindura photo: . Below are some of the workshop participants, who had travelled from Harare (after one of them had spent several days travelling from Chimanimani): From left to right: Maxwell Mabhiza, Dudziro Nhe...