Chenjerai Hove: A voice for the voiceless in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe

The death of Chenjerai Hove at the relatively early age of 61 in Oslo, Norway has robbed Zimbabwe of one its great poets and novelists, writes TREVOR GRUNDY


Chenjerai Hove was a man of principle during the course of a lonely 14-years exile in America, France and Norway.

He was a voice for the voiceless in Robert Mugabe’s crime-soaked Zimbabwe. “Chenjerai was a national treasure,” said Wilf Mbanga, editor of the UK-based “The Zimbabwean’ Politics Web

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