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National Arts Merit Awards
The National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA Awards) is a set of annual awards granted by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) in recognition of outstanding achievements in the arts and culture. The categories have differed over the years. In 2020, they were: * Outstanding Newcomer * Outstanding Female Musician * Outstanding Male Musician * Outstanding Song * Outstanding Album * Outstanding Music Video * Outstanding Fiction Book * Outstanding Children's Book * Outstanding First Creative Published Book * Outstanding Female Dance * Outstanding Male Dancer * Outstanding Actress * Outstanding Screen Production (Television Series) * Outstanding Screen Production – Short Film * Outstanding Mix Media Work * Outstanding 2 Dimensional Work * Outstanding 3 Dimensional Work * Outstanding Exhibition * Outstanding Journalist (Print) * Outstanding Journalist (TV) * Outstanding Journalist Radio * Outstanding Online Media * Outstanding Comedian * Outstanding Poet * Outstanding Actor (Film and TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Arts Council Of Zimbabwe
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) is the official arts council for Zimbabwe. They award the annual National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) in recognition of outstanding achievements in the arts and culture. External links National Arts Council of Zimbabwe website References Arts councils Arts organisations based in Zimbabwe {{art-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by ''Brittle Paper''. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowshipBongani Kona"Exclusive interview: Petina Gappah speaks about the highs and lows of her writing career, and reveals details of her next book" ''Johannesburg Review of Books'', 4 September 2017. in Berlin. Biography Early years Petina Gappah was born in Zambia, in Copperbelt Province. She has said: "My father, like many skilled black workers who could not get jobs in segregated Rhodesia, sought his fortune elsewhere. He and my mother moved to Kitwe, a town on the booming Zambian copper belt." She was brought up in Zimbabwe, where her parents returned when she was nine months old. After the country's Independence her family moved to a formerly white area in what is now Harare, and she was one of the first black pupil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mungoshi
David Sunsly Mungoshi (30 September 1949 – 29 August 2020) was a Zimbabwean novelist, actor, poet and teacher. Early life He was born in 1949 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and was fluent in Shona, Ndebele and English. He learnt Zulu, similar to Ndebele, which at that time was not recognised as a distinct language, at school. Career In 1970, he started teaching at St Annes Goto Primary School in Hwedza. He struggled at the start of his writing career, with some believing that he was writing simply because his brother, the then established Charles Mungoshi, was writing, or that his brother had even written them. In 1975, he enrolled for a BA in English and History at the University of Rhodesia. Mungoshi was a teacher for most of his life, and taught at various institutions, including the University of Zimbabwe. Mungoshi was also an actor, and until 2011 featured in the local soap opera ''Studio 263'', as well as the short film, ''The Postman'', and the feature film ''Secrets''. He li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius Mabasa
Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean writer, storyteller, and musician, who writes mainly in Shona. Mabasa was born in Mount Darwin and grew up on his grandfather's farm there. He attended school in Chitungwiza, where he began to write short stories. He studied Shona and linguistics at the University of Zimbabwe. He was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Oslo, where he received the M.Phil. in Media, Democracy and Development in 1998. The following year, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach writing and literature in Illinois. Mabasa is the first Zimbabwean to write a PhD thesis in Shona at Rhodes University, South Africa. Career Mabasa's debut novel, the satirical ''Mapenzi'' (Fools), won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers’ Association Awards in 2000. His second novel ''Ndafa Here?'' (Am I Dead?) won the 2009 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) Outstanding Fiction Book as did his novel ''Imbwa yemunhu'' (You Dog) in 2014. Mabas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Tagwira
Valerie Tagwira is a Zimbabwean writer who is a specialist obstetrician-gynecologist by profession.Sara Davies"Literary conversation with Valerie Tagwira" ''Harare News'', 4 June 2014. Her debut novel ''The Uncertainty of Hope'', published in 2006 by Weaver Press, won the 2008 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) Outstanding Fiction Book."‘The Uncertainty of Hope’ wins NAMA award" Valerie Tagwira website, 14 February 2008. Biography Valerie Joan Tagwira was born in the city of , in central Zimbabwe, but lived for most of her childhood in Rutendo ([...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimmer Chinodya
Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist. He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government. He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in creative writing, in 1985. Awards * 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region. * 2007 National Arts Merit Awards The National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA Awards) is a set of annual awards granted by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) in recognition of outstanding achievements in the arts and culture. The categories have differed over the years. In 202 ... Outstanding Fiction Book for ''Strife'' Works *; Heinemann, 2001, *''Farai’s Girls'' (1984) *''Child of War'' (1986) *''Harvest of Thorns'' (1989) *''Can we talk and other Stories'' (1998) *''Tale of Tamari'' (2004) *''Chairman of Fools'' (2005) * * Tindo's Quest, Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) (January 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memory Chirere
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, relationships, or personal identity to develop. Memory loss is usually described as forgetfulness or amnesia. Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory. This can be related to the neuron. The sensory processor allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli and attended to various levels of focus and intent. Working memory serves as an encoding and retrieval processor. Information in the form of stimuli is encoded in accordance with explicit or implicit functions by the working memory processor. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera (19 September 1964 – 7 April 2005) was an author from Zimbabwe. Her first published book was a collection of short stories, ''Why Don't You Carve Other Animals'' (1992), which was followed by five novels: ''Nehanda'' (1993), ''Without a Name'' (1994), ''Under the Tongue'' (1996), ''Butterfly Burning'' (1998), and ''The Stone Virgins'' (2002). Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past. For these reasons, she has been widely studied and appreciated by those studying postcolonial African literature. Life Vera was born in Bulawayo, in what was then Southern Rhodesia, to Jerry Vera and Ericah Gwetai. At the age of eight, she worked as a cotton-picker near Hartley. She attended Mzilikazi High School and then taught English literature at Njube High School, both in Bulawayo. In 1987, she immigrated to Canada and she married John Jose, a Canadian teacher w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimbabwean Awards
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare. The second largest city is Bulawayo. A country of roughly 15 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona language, Shona, and Northern Ndebele language, Ndebele the most common. Beginning in the 9th century, during its late Iron Age, the Bantu peoples, Bantu people (who would become the ethnic Shona people, Shona) built the city-state of Great Zimbabwe which became one of the major African trade centres by the 11th century, controlling the gold, ivory and copper trades with the Swahili coast, which were connected to Arab and Indian states. By the mid 15th century, the city-state had been abandoned. From there, the Kingdom of Zimbabwe was established, fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
