By Takudzwa Kadzura
Punching
these words on the keyboard was just as loud as the shattering noise raging at
the grief of Donald Marindire’s untimely passing. Even though we cannot add a
cubit to our own lives, it remains untimely to bury a comrade when the fruits
of revolutionary labor begin to ripe.
Altogether,
these words could gravely summarize an episode of sorrow in the public eye
which this writing sternly seeks to revise. The comradeship of Dodger as he was
affectionately known is the culture we grossly overlook. We as a collective hip
hop fraternity.
Dodger’s
demise on the 26th of August 2021 coincides with his cultic hero’s
month of passing – Dambudzo Marechera.
Despite
the generational gaps, the two writers’ literary escapades – iconoclastic for that
matter – are of a spiritual realm and more to it, timelessly relevant. Permanently
etched in the consciousness of progressive comrades.
Donald’s
consistent references to Dambudzo evidently portray his dedicated conviction to
the word; the literature which bears the madness of struggle – hope and
hopelessness.
The
two flourished in eccentric writing from the ultimate totality of consciousness
which oft was and is still hiding in wit. And prophecies that only reveal their
nature and form to their readers.
Zim
Hip Hop lost a towering luminary, a selfless purveyor of the culture. The generality
of Zimbabwean arts and culture lost a soldier – one who was obviously inclined to
the saying, “the pen is mightier…” He rooted for the game.
Dodger
is the beacon of critical reviews into the prospects of artists. His precision
in analysis reeked prophecy because he had an eye for talent which to our
witness developed into nationwide stardom.
Writing
was largely a self-styled dream which he vehemently channeled towards his passionate
and indelible contribution to hip hop in Zimbabwe. In this genre, words are
undeniably mightier than sword. He found a home in a world that Marechera
lampooned to constantly alienate (us).
He
had earlier written, “Words evoke more than that which is there to be evoked”.
Words found Dodger a safe haven convenient to evoke thought in the hullabaloo
of Zimbabwean music industry and eventually becoming an unrivalled and unparalleled
authority of rational critique. Par excellence.
“I
think writers are usually recruited into a revolutionary movement before that
revolution gains whatever it’s seeking. Once it has achieved that, writers are
simply discarded, either as a nuisance or as totally irrelevant”. It was Dambudzo
Marechera who said this.
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