his own work in both directions, he acquired an unusually rich sense of the relationship between the two. He found, he says, intuitive ways of making leaps from one to the other, even if they sometimes defy word-for-word translation: For example, an idiomatic expression like Chauinacho batisisa midzimu haipe kaviri: "What you have, hold on to it fast because the ancestors will not give it to you again." If you wrote it the way I'm saying it now, it wouldn't make sense. Maybe it might be better to say, "A bird in hand is worth two in a bush." And this has given you a totally different use although the idea is the same. So, there are many such expressions that are not synonymous, but somehow you can get the equivalent. Major works in English Feso. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1974. Zimbabwe: Prose and Poetry (as editor and contributor). Washington: Three Continents, 1974. Mapondera, Soldier of Zimbabwe. Washington: Three Continents, 1978. Chaminuka, Prophet of Zimbabwe. Washington: Three Continents, 1983. Introduction to Shona Culture. Zimbabwe: Juta Zimbabwe, 1996. Notes References Bessant, Leslie. "Songs of Chiweshe and Songs of Zimbabwe." African Affairs, Vol. 93, No. 370. (1994), 43–73. Burgess, Don. "Three Continents Press: A Blazer of Trails." Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4. (1982), 451–456. Burgess, M. Elaine. "Ethnic Scale and Intensity: The Zimbabwean Experience." Social Forces, Vol. 59, No. 3. (1981), 601–626. Chimhundu, Herbert. "Early Missionaries and the Ethnolinguistic Factor during the 'Invention of Tribalism' in Zimbabwe." The Journal of African History, Vol. 33, No. 1. (1992), 87–109. Ranger, Terence. "The People in African Resistance: A Review." Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, (1977), 125–146. Williams, Angela A. "Mother Tongue: Interviews with Musaemura B. Zimunya and Solomon Mutswairo." The Journal of African Travel-Writing, Number 4 (1998), 36–44. Online version available. 1924 births 2005 deaths Howard University alumni National anthem writers Academic staff of the University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwean novelists Male novelists Zimbabwean poets Zimbabwean male writers Male poets Southern Rhodesian expatriates in the United States