Memory, Erasure and Virtual Repatriation: The Zimbabwean Case

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Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, co-researchers of ReadingZimbabwe.com have been collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available information of as many publications about Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the present as is possible to identify and locate. This national archive is now submerged and is threatened with extinction: many of the key books of Zimbabwe's literary …