Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. Marechera was born in Vhengere Township, Rusape, Zimbabwe , to Isaac Marechera, a mortuary attendant, and Masvotwa Venenzia Marechera, a maid. In his 1978 book, The House of Hunger, and in interviews, Marechera often falsely suggests that his father was either run over by "a 20th century train" or "came home with a knife sticking from his back" or "was found in the hospital mortuary with his body riddled with bullets". Such incorrect accounts may be part of Marechera's penchant to revise even the "facts" of his own life. German... researcher, Flora-Veit Wild seems to give too much weight to an account given by Marechera's older brother, Michael, about the destructive element in the younger Marechera's life. Michael suggests that Dambudzo was a victim of their mother's muti, implying that he was cursed in some way.
more