National Arts Merits Awards (Zimbabwe)

       They've announced the winners of the National Arts Merits Awards (NAMAs) in Zimbabwe, and as Stanely Mushava reports in The Herald, Mungoshi, Mabasa share award, as:

Charles Mungoshi's Branching Streams Flow in the Dark and Ignatius Mabasa's Imbwa Yemunhu jointly landed the NAMA Best Fiction accolade on Saturday.

       Mushava suggests these are both: "highly experimental offerings from two men regarded master and disciple"
       See also the full list of the NAMA nominees in all the categories in NewsDay's NAMA nominees out.