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Print: $20.12 Download: $0.86 "Miti Kadiki" means, quite simply in Shona, the main language of Zimbabwe, my homeland, "little trees". My travelling garden, if you will, is a hobby that has gone with me from Africa to my new home in Germany. I even send my trees across Europe, selling bonsai periodically on e-bay as a hobby. I collect many specimens from the wild, as I did in Africa. My balcony is a world in miniature where I sit and find my peace. This is a small record of a hobby; some photographs, scribblings, an odd poem, certificates from "The Bonsai Society of Zimbabwe" and so on. It is purely a small personal record of something I enjoy.
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Print: $23.98 Download: $1.24 After my father died in the late 70's, I decided to start my mother painting again. I remembered that she used to do a bit of daubing in oils when she was young, but had since left it behind her. To encourage her interest, I accompanied her on our mutual art-forays and I also started to paint for the first time in my forties. I have continued to play with colour and mood ever since, in mixed media; water, oils, acrylics, finding an outlet for expression without words. Here is my small collection of some 70 pieces from the hundreds of paintings I have done that I kept recorded. My efforts started in the mid-70's and have continued to the present time. Mostly photographed with an out-dated snap-shot type camera, the pictures are mistier than focused but still capture something intrinsicallly impressionable from my subconscious. I hope you enjoy sharing these simple dreamscapes from my imagination.
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Print: $7.55 Download: $1.54 These are poems written in the past few years of a personal displacement from Africa to England to Germany and back to England, from a loss of language, family and identity to the struggle to find new roots again and again.
The Russian philosopher, Uspensky, said "when a man loses his references, he goes insane." This collection deals with that particular and peculiar suituation that all enforced emigrants experience and echo what is usually left unsaid.
Currently, there are several million Zimbabweans living as semi-refugees, chased from their homeland either by fear or by neccessity for survival.
The work in this book goes below the surface to that country of the mind all aliens inhabit, the place without borders or where the rites of passage are not passports, papers or documents but survival.
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Print: $9.68 Download: $3.11 A radio comedy in the style of a "Faulty Towers" somewhere in Africa, the Mahobohobo Lodge; the Jones Family who manage it, along with their staff, Shumba, Dr Bugs, a stuffed crocodile called "Smiler", Hunters and Greenies, vegetarians and meat-eaters, animals of all kinds, French fashion models and a gay Safari guide, whacky, a walk on the Wild side, wonderfully zany and stupendously silly stuff full of belly-button laughter.
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Print: $9.81 Download: $1.88 Kids, meet Boing and Sproing, the children from Outer-Space and their Robo-cat, "Beeper", always getting them into trouble! The Space twins are visiting Earth and in particular, Africa, in search of adventure and they sure will find it! Here is a journey in 4 books that takes you with our travellers across the length and breadth of the wild continent to solve the mystery of greatest riddle of all time; Mums and Dads with young children - this is the perfect set of four complete books for very-young people all under one cover and especially designed for bedtime-reading. A chapter a time - and you will have them thrilled while waiting for the next cliff-hanging episode each night. Educational and entertaining in extreme and designed especially to be read aloud, a real treasure and treat for youngsters worldwide.
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Print: $9.86 Download: $2.50 Nature poetry designed to seduce the reader, "Changing Skins" leads visitors to the wonders and wilderness of Africa, it creatures and its colours, its thunderstorms, its drought, its blood songs and beauty. This is the second printing of this book with new poems now included. Used in schools and by the tourist industry, "Changing Skins" beckons the reader better than any travel brochure could. "This collection is about Zimbabwe, its diversity, its richness, its spell-binding beauty and intrinsic sadness. It is about what the Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins called "dappled things" and Bart Wolffe, musically and magically shows them to us..." Trevor Grundy, Editor Travel News 1995.
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Print: $8.66 Download: $2.11 Enjoy the feast! - This compendium of flavours designed to whet the appetite of poetry-lovers comes from the pen of Bart Wolffe. It covers journeys, places, experiences and relationships in a distinctly unique voice and is designed to intoxicate the senses of language-gourmets everywhere.
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Print: $8.20 Download: $1.88 "Stirring stuff - I'll have another cup" - Uninvited guest.
"May I join you?" - Bible Salesman.
"Nice" - Blonde.
"Is breakfast inclusive?" - Commonwealth Delegate.
"At last - another meaningful mouthful of tasteful verbiage!" - Bookworm.
"Anyone for coffee, please pass the sugar" - Mom.
"Let them eat his words" - Mary A.
"Where's the tip?" - A. Waiter.
"You'll definitely want a second helping" - Author.
"Pay? Let me see the Management!" - Scrooge.
"We hereby declare this an open book" Her Majesty.
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Print: $7.48 Download: $2.00 Reading this story makes one feel that every young teenager should have the chance to experience the African wilderness and its savage beauty and excitement. - Set in the Okavango Delta, here is a tale of life and death, the fragile thread that binds us all together. A true rarity , a spell-binding gem of a book to leave children wide-eyed everywhere.
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Print: $14.90 Download: $5.00 Well recognised as the leading light in one-man shows in Zimbabwe, here is a collection of the majority of Bart Wolffe's published works for the stage including three two-handers, a thrilling mix of thirteen dramatic pieces with male and female parts that all have a common quality: an intimate exploration of the human condition in the most unique assembly of characters for performance you could possibly ever meet.
They are all plays designed to travel, without much fuss, low-cost productions with maximum impact, in comedy and drama, satires and absurdist theatre pieces, physical theatre also; these plays have been performed throughout Southern Africa and in London, Edinburgh and Dublin, used for masterclasses and workshops, for festivals and for main stage venues right through to intimate and private performances in people's homes.
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Print: $19.98 Download: $9.72 This collection of stories explores the life of individuals and minorities in an African context. Heightened description of a world of wonder, danger and hidden emotions comes to light at every turn of the page. The white refugee from Mozambique accused of murder, the National Parks Ranger on the run from the ZNA - Zimbabwe National Army, the ex-Rhodesian soldier coming to terms with his past and finding himself crossing the colour barrier of multi-cultural relationships in the process, the Film Professor with an obsession for capturing his victims forever in memory, the alcoholic artist angry with his muse, the young journalist with a personal story that won't make the pages of the daily press: here are several lives that are so much more than characters, fleshed out with passion and individual problems, adjusting to their African context - a lost generation from a white tribe in black Africa, perhaps?
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Print: $9.95 Download: $3.44 An adoption in Africa resulting in rejection of both my motherland and my blood-line leads me to try and make sense of the journey "home".
That is the reason I needed to write some understanding into the madness of a personal alienation and my colonial past. Like a thorn expelled by pus, Zimbabwe has ejected me from its heartland, from its side. Germany is my new country that I now attempt to reconcile with my Jewish ancestry in order to find myself in this colder Northern climate far from the warm cocoon of Southern sunshine I once knew.
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Print: $6.61 Download: $1.25 A perfect set of poems written with delightful irony, depicting loneliness, relationships, regrets. This neat collection employs the metaphor of Robinson Crusoe with a fresh and original approach to the absurdities of life. A most enjoyable read, an ideal little gift of a book to treasure.
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Print: $11.65 Download: $3.04 Re-tracing the journey back to a forbidden garden, here is a subtly rich feast of sense and language that rediscovers lost love and innocence. A timeless work, of lyrical beauty and forgotten eloquence, to complement the selective library of all who enjoy poetry with profound passion.
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