Smoke and Flames S.Chimsoro

The 1978 debut poetry collection of Zimbabwean poet Samuel Chimsoro, published by Mambo Press during the final years of white-minority rule in Rhodesia. Chimsoro's work more broadly is known for engaging colonialism, racial discrimination and Zimbabwean politics, themes that mark this early volume as the start of a career that would make him one of the country's notable post-independence poets. Specific poem-by-poem content of this particular collection could not be independently verified.