Onai Mushava Archives

Onai Mushava, God and Hip Hop Onai Mushava is a Zimbabwean poet and journalist, noted for his intertextuality and pro-poor themes. In 2018, he won a National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Fiction Book. He has also been nominated in the poetry and journalism categories. Mushava's debut book, Survivors Cafe (2016), combines themes of love, politics and religion, while Rhyme and Resistance (2019) falls within the protest category, as well as exploring the poet's psyche. In this interview, poet Tafadzwa Chiwanza (TC), whose debut book is due for release next month, interviews Mushava (OM) on the role of religion in his work. By Tafadzwa Chiwanza, September 26, 2020 TC: Your early writings were mainly Christian in context, I observed. Why the change? ...

Bishop of Bohemia – Onai Mushava on Living the Poet’s Life Onai Mushava is one of the rising stars of Zimbabwean literature. He opens up on his influences, writing rituals and living the poet’s life in a wide-ranging interview with Givemore Manyenga. By Givemore Manyenga | November 13, 2019 I find him sitting outside his office at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), a laptop carelessly balanced in his lap. You needed not ask who this light-skinned young man is, if only because his white t-shirt advertises him with the cover of Survivors Café the poetry collection book that landed him a National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Fiction Book in 2018. As he notices this writer come towards him, he stretches his hand and wryly smiles, simu...

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