This article analyses the work of the Zimbabwean poet, Musaemura Bonas Zimunya, as represented in his anthology Thought-tracks. This is a collection of 87 poems, grouped into seven parts (Home and the mountains; The prisoner; For the bearers of the burden; To the fighters; 'Zimbabwe and the ruins; Of excile and home; Others) and it represents 'the culmination of the poet's search for a vision and a voice' to convey his sentiments about his home particularly his childhood in the Nyanga highlands and his experiences in colonial Rhodesia (now the independent state of Zimbabwe).
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