Last week, this newspaper republished Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s evocative travelogue, Abdulrazak Gurnah: Searching for signs of Zanzibar’s most famous writer.
In it, the Harvard professor—a Zimbabwean native—journeys to Zanzibar not merely for a wedding, but as a pilgrim seeking traces of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah (pictured), the island’s most celebrated novelist. He found instead a Stone Town saturated in tourist gloss, where the echoes of Gurnah’s haunting prose have all but vanished.
