DAMBUDZO MARECHERA ON THE FUTURE OF ZIMBABWEAN LITERATURE

This is the fourth extract from a very long and important interview that Marechera gave to the Dutch journalist Alle Lansu in February 1986 at Marechera's flat, 8 Sloane Court, in Harare.
ABOUT DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 - 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet. His brief career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry (also posthumous). His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.
In search of original accounts of Marechera's childhood and upbringing, the German researcher Flora Veit-Wild gave considerable weight to an account given by Marechera's older brother, Michael, about what was said to be a destructive element in the younger Marechera's life.
Dambudzo grew up amid racial discrimination, poverty, and violence. He attended St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga, where he clashed with his teachers over the colonial teaching syllabus, and he went on to the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe), from which he was expelled during student unrest, and New College, Oxford, where his unsociable behaviour and academic dereliction led to another expulsion
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