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1956–2015 Zimbabwe
Chenjerai Hove (9 February 1956 – 12 July 2015), was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona."Modernist in their formal construction, but making extensive use of oral conventions, Hove's novels offer an intense examination of the psychic and social costs - to the rural population, especially, of the war of liberation in Zimbabwe."He died on 12 July 2015 while living in exile in Norway, with his death attributed to liver failure.
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An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
A man who refused to be warned only remembers the warning when his forehead is covered with wounds.
A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
Exile wields the hammer of darker memories. Where the victim and the victimizer embrace, who shall intervene, and clouds of rain pour down on the sky's rejects.
The stump that hits the toes of the person walking in front of you will also hit the toe of the person walking behind. When the big finger burns, the small ones also burn.
When the small bull grow horns, it must learn to defend itself...
It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...
If a man overeats and then takes a spear to stab the granary which stores the food, he should not blame someone else when tomorrow his stomach starts rumbling with hunger.
If this is what my foot can carry me to, I choose the buttocks which make me sit near the grave of my ancestors. The lizard with a broken tail must learn to play near the cave.
[A] man who broods about his problems alone is likely to bewitch others. Talking is the medicine for troubles.
There are many homesteads which will remain intact, with children and dogs chasing after hopeless bones and fireflies. But his home will not be a home. It will be a home of graves, ancestors, shadows, broken walls leaning on tired ear.
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