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Chenjerai Hove

Died in 2015

Chenjerai Hove was born on 9 February 1956 in Mazvihwa, near Zvishavane. A pupil of the Marist Brothers, he studied in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and worked as a teacher and then as a journalist. First president of the Zimbabwe Writers' Union in 1984, founding member of the Zimbabwean human rights association in 1990, he criticised the policy of Robert Mugabe and received the German Africa Prize in 2001. Exiled the same year, he lived in France, in the United States and then in Stavanger, Norway, where he died on 12 July 2015.

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