http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/writers-and-artists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writers-and-artists Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/writers-and-artists/#comment-185354 Dudziro Nhengu Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:51:39 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=2054#comment-185354 Whilst I agree with your assertions, at the same time I have a few strong points for you to consider:
-I believe keeping a dreadlock does not neccessarily prove the fact that you are an artist, especially as there are many people who keep dreadlocks but are not artists. Secondly, most great artists have never kept dreadlocks, Shimmer Chinodya, Charles Mungoshi, Memory Chirere, Barbara Makhalisa, Chiedza Musengezi, to mention a few are great writers but have never kept dreadlocks. I have also met a number of mad men and women without dreadlocks. I think the best way for you to prove to everypone that you are an artist so that they wont bother you asking is to let your works do the talking than claim that you are an artist. I have never, and will never meet Buchi Emecheta but almost every reader knows that the name belongs to a great feminist writer. Dreadlocks is just a hair style but mob psychologists want to mislead people with the belief that dreadlocked pple are great artists, or is it because Dambudzo Marechera had locks. For Bob Marley it had more to do with his religion than with playing the guitar I presume?

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