What do you get if you feed a boy’s mind a rich and varied diet that includes Enid Blyton, the Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carrol, H.G. Wells, C.S. Lewis, Richmal Compton, John Wyndham, Wallace Stevens, the Brontes, Hans Christian Anderson, R.L. Stevenson, Chenjerai Hove, Bessie Head, Isaac Asimov, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Arthur C. Clarke, Dambudzo Marechera, Mordecai Hamutyinei, Doris Lessing, Wilbur Smith, Chinua Achebe, Frank Herbert, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Charles Mungoshi, Shimmer Chinodya, Alex La Guma, Kalu Okpi, James Hadley Chase, Yvonne Vera, Stanley Nyamufukudza, Stephen King, George Orwell and everything else that could be read in optimistic, newly-independent Zimbabwe?
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