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Petina Gappah Quotes

Zimbabwean - Writer | 1971 -

I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.

Me Mean Anything Because Get Writer

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

Happy People Think Some People Who

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

World Speak Dream Two See I See

I'm not even sure that I want to go back... The Zimbabwe that I really loved, the Zimbabwe that I grew up in, just isn't there anymore, and I'm not sure about the country that has replaced it.

Loved Back Country Go Want Up

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Broadcasting Only Reporter Zimbabwe

Ian Smith thought his Rhodesia would last 1,000 years: it lasted less than 15.

Thought Years Last Would Than His

The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.

Women Shoes Struggle Men Imagination

On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.

Women Men Rose Free Dream Place

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.

Pain People Laugh Find Say True

People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

Humor People Me Think Find Skill

I guess you could say I'm lucky because I've known a Zimbabwe that didn't have Robert Mugabe leading it. One of the saddest things about Zimbabwe is there are so many hidden casualties of the Mugabe government's misrule. They're not just casualties that you immediately see.

Government You Say Lucky Hidden See

I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time; we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision.

Vision Time Government Independence

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