Juju, Ganga and Mafia at Dynamos
Zimbabwe’s global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul.
Dynamos Football Club legend Memory Mucherahowa’s new book, “Soul of Seven Million Dreams”, refreshingly does away with airbrushing strokes and puts the health of a national institution up for public scrutiny.
A long-serving captain at the country’s most successful football club, Mucherahowa identifies, in the course of his own life story, some of the millstones holding back Zimbabwe’s version of the beautiful game.
Even at the high point of its glory days, during the 1998 CAF championship campaign, Dynamos reliably unwound administrative disasters under a management for whom professional basics were stacks of Mandarin.
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