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Bart Wolffe was a leading playwright in Zimbabwe and worked extensively throughout the sub-Sahara running theatre workshops in countries such as Zambia and Namibia as well as in the UK where he currently resides.

He left his home country in 2003 after a long career in media which included journalism, television, radio, film and stage involvement. His plays have been performed in London and Edinburgh as well as in the countries of Southern Africa.

He has published novels, plays, essays, short stories, poetry and children's books, all of which may be seen here.

He is a committee member for Exiled Writers Ink, an organisation that brings together writers from repressive regimes and war-torn situations, now living in exile in England.

 
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Persona Non Grata
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This collection of stories explores the life of individuals and minorities in an African context. Heightened description of... More > 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? < Less
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The Stones of SomeWhere
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These are poems written in the past few years of a personal displacement from Africa to England to Germany and back to... More > England, from a loss of language, family, friends 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 situation 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 and the search for reason and new meaning. < Less
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WAKING DREAMS
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This is the intimate pocket edition of WAKING DREAMS. It was mostly written throughout 2010 and the first half of... More > 2011.

Poetry is the process of dreaming in words. Like dreams, it often defies defies the boundaries of convention in language and speaks in metaphor, in images, in feelings that seem to surpass the constraints of logic. It touches an inner nerve and evokes vision, a state of mind that breaks with routine and our daily lives. It gives resonance and creates echoes of memory and places and spaces far removed from the common view of our daily existence and allows the imagination a path of escape. < Less
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AFRICA DREAM THEATRE
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Well recognised as the leading light in one-man shows in Zimbabwe, here is a collection of the majority of Bart Wolffe's... More > 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. < Less
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THE AFRICAN IN ME
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"The African in Me" brings together a collection of articles that reflect the memoirs of a white African.

A series of... More > essays encapsulating identity and memory, politics and nature, magic and myth, the pieces describe something of what makes this particular continent unique to its people at home and abroad.

These are insights into an "under-the-skin" look at the African soul as seen through the eyes of the author, Bart Wolffe. < Less
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GOD'S OWN COUNTRY
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This occult thriller captivates the imagination. Set in Rhodesia in the 1960's, high in the Inyanga mountains, it deals with... More > the issue of the land and ownership of the land. The beauty and tranquillity of a pastoral way of life is soon overshadowed by dark forces at play as ancient ways conflict with the colonial inheritors of the land. It is an unfolding horror-story that moves unstoppably towards a terrible climax of tragedy and loss. < Less
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Dust of Eden
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Re-tracing the journey back to a forbidden garden, here is a subtly rich feast of sense and language that rediscovers lost... More > 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. < Less
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Touchstones, Icons & Talismans
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A slender pocket edition of atmospheric pieces written in the latter half of 2011 and into 2012, giving voice to impressions both personal and universal.
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WAKING DREAMS
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Poetry is the process of dreaming in words. Like dreams, it often defies the boundaries of convention in language and speaks... More > in metaphor, in images, in feelings that seem to surpass the constraints of logic. It touches an inner nerve and evokes vision, a state of mind that breaks the routine of our daily lives. This collection of poems attempts to speak from inside these loose and sometimes random connections to the world outside and within, to find an alternate impression for sound and thought and meaning. It gives resonance and creates echoes of memory and places and spaces of imagination far removed from the common view of daily existence and helps us escape through the mind of the poet. < Less
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Persona Non Grata
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This collection of stories explores the life of individuals and minorities in an African context. Heightened description of... More > 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? < Less
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