Veteran novelist, poet and playwright, Willie Zingani, said on Tuesday that women should come out and tell their stories.<\/p>\n
Making a contribution at Blantyre Sports Club during a presentation by author and poet Alfred Msadala, organised by the Society of Malawi, Zingani said it was high time women published their stories.<\/p>\n
His contribution came following an observation by one of the patrons that there were few published women authors on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now time for the woman to tell her story,\u201d Zingani said.<\/p>\n
He gave the example of veteran poet Jack Mapanje, who, he said, wrote his story while in detention but his wife has not published anything.<\/p>\n
Zingani said he was happy that Pen Malawi recently brought some women together to share ideas on poetry and creative writing.<\/p>\n
Several players also made contributions on the issue where it was highlighted that women were not forthcoming to tell their stories.<\/p>\n
However, Msadala said the situation was changing.<\/p>\n
Msadala made a presentation on Malawian Literature in Retrospect.<\/p>\n
Msadala, who is also Book Publishers Association of Malawi and Pen Malawi president, said he was happy to make a contribution on the history of literature in the country.<\/p>\n
He said the presentation was all about tracing the time the country started publishing its books.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy with the interaction I had and I tried as much as possible to give the audience what I know about the history of literature,\u201d Msadala said.<\/p>\n
The columnist of Literary Talk in The Sunday Times, <\/em>and author of A Ragged Portfolio of My Portrait, A Rumbling Journey Towards the Joys of Writing Memoirs, <\/em>said it was important to tackle the topic for the patrons to know where the country is coming from, in terms of literature, and who did what.<\/p>\n He then said book development must be taken seriously in the country, observing that, without a book, there is no life.<\/p>\n Society of Malawi Chairperson, Carl Bruessow, said literature is, in any country, essential as it helps people become critical thinkers.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough literature, thinkers express themselves, in terms of how they view their country…,\u201d Bruessow said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran novelist, poet and playwright, Willie Zingani, said on Tuesday that women should come out and tell their stories. Making a contribution at Blantyre Sports Club during a presentation by author and poet Alfred Msadala, organised by the Society of Malawi, Zingani said it was high time women published their stories. His contribution came following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63087,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63081\/revisions\/63087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}