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Ode to Homeliness
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Zimbabwe born WRITER, SCHOLAR, CURATOR who deploys collage logic in his archival practice and publishing projects—piecing together fragments of history, fiction, and lived experience to create new narratives.
musha ka vanhu (A home is its people)
About
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Zimbabwe born WRITER, SCHOLAR, CURATOR who deploys collage logic in his archival practice and publishing projects—piecing together fragments of history, fiction, and lived experience to create new narratives.
He holds degrees from England (PhD), Wales (MA) and Zimbabwe (BA (hons first class) in English literature, creative writing and journalism. He has held fellowships at various eclectic spaces—a supermarket in downtown Harare; a clothing store in Oxford; museums in Leeds & New York; university campuses in Johannesburg & Paris and forever a returning resident at his parent’s house where his extensive personal library is held.
He operates ‘small fires’—an experimental publishing project—and circulates all the publications from his backpack, one underground exchange at a time. In another life, he was a journalist, he notably set up the Digital newsroom for Zimbabwe’s oldest private newspaper and tried building a Pan African media startup modelled after Buzzfeed.
He has won awards and praise for his work. And when he is not daydreaming and creating, he is a tenure-track professor of African literature and visual cultures at Harvard University.
