In The Herald they consider (yet again, it seems ...) Is Zim literature at the crossroads ? as Lovemore Ranga Mataire finds:
it seems Zimbabwean literature is sliding backwards into some kind of post-modernist narrative that has subconsciously allowed itself to be defined by the discourse of European prejudicial stereotypical images of Africa in the tradition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which depicts Africa and its people in the most denigrating and despicable terms of being mere "cardboard characters" devoid of any intellect.I'm not sure how useful this particular tack is (or how valid the argument), but on the whole it seems good to at least see such a prominent continuing discussion of literary matters, at least in some (even this ...) form.