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Chirikure Chirikure
Chirikure Chirikure
(Zimbabwe, 1962)
Biografie
Chirikure Chirikure is perhaps best known as one of Zimbabwe's most talented performance poets and storytellers. His first volume of poetry, Rukuvhute (College Press, 1989) received honourable mention in the 1990 Noma Awards and was followed by Chamupupuri (College Press,1994) and Hakurarwi, We Shall not Sleep (Baobab Books, 1998).
Chirikure was born in 1962 in Gutu.
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