Chronicle Editor
A riveting biography of Zanu-PF Second Secretary and Vice-President Colonel (Retired) Kembo Mohadi is done and dusted and will be launched in Bulawayo on Friday evening.
The biography, a spell-binding read titled Resilience and Fortitude: A KEMBO CAMPBELL DUGISH MOHADI STORY was authored by Musa Bhunu and published by Century Press while the editing was done by Shadreck Nembaware of Chinhoyi University of Technology. Work on the 172 page biography was carried out between 2018 and 2020. Col (Rtd) Mohadi’s personal assistant Dr Clever Chirume confirmed the launch of the biography to Sunday News on Friday.
“The launch is on in Bulawayo on 2 December. However, at the moment I cannot give much on the occasion as we are still working on the details,” said Dr Chirume.
In his note, the biography’s editor, Nembaware wrote: “ This narrative is a super-charged pendulum that swings the reader through a gallery of profound experiences. Though not naively capitulating to the binarisms of colonial discourses, the book rewardingly opens access to verifiable historical milestones which thankfully fill in the missing gaps for purpose-driven readership. The autobiography finds its anchor on the broader geo-spatial and political coordinates which shaped events in the epochal years that thrust Kembo Mohadi into the deep end of the liberation movement. As such, the reader unaffectedly identifies their space in the plot of a narrative that is as personal as it is also collective.”
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