Lawson Chiwara- Author

 Lawson Chiwara is a Zimbabwean writer, English teacher, and freelance journalist.

His work explores power, silence, and the individual’s collision with institutions, often through restrained prose and moral tension rather than spectacle.

Selected works include The Teacher’s Ledger, When the Gate Closes, Parked Dreams, and Differences.

He publishes under the name LawsonChiwaraWrites.

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