Dambudzo Marechera’s voice is on Facebook, and 33,000 people are listening

By Agencies

A Facebook page dedicated to Dambudzo Marechera has been running for years and has built a following of 33,000 people. The page uploads recordings of Marechera reading his own work and it has just completed something significant.

Since June 2025, the page has been sharing a 15-part complete reading of My Arms Vanished Mountains, read by Marechera himself and originally recorded by Flora Veit-Wild. All 15 parts are now up. It is, as far as these things go, an extraordinary thing to have access to — a full reading, in the writer’s own voice, of one of his major works.

Marechera was born in Rusape, Zimbabwe in 1952 and died in Harare in 1987 at 35. His debut collection The House of Hunger won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1978. He remains one of the most singular voices in African literature, and one of the most under-heard.

Go and listen at facebook.com/dambudzo.marechera.