As a tie in with Zimbabwe’s national election yesterday—which turned out peaceful, if seriously flawed—Brian Chikwava celebrates well-known Zimbabwe poet Dambudzo Marechera in a Guardian story. Marechera, who died at 35, is described as “on a sunny afternoon, one of Africa’s first products of the post-modern condition; and on a damp morning, Africa’s first intellectual aberration.” Chikwava observes that Marechera saw African political corruption early and remained skeptical of the eerie nationalism of the anti-colonial struggle. At its apex, he wrote: “When politicians talk about culture, one had better pack one’s rucksack and run, because it means the beginning of unofficial censorship.”