1. ^Adrian A. Roscoe The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945 entry Garikai N. Mutasa
2. ^Peter O. Stummer, Christopher Balme Fusion of Cultures? 1996 -- Page 166 "Nationalist histomythographies29 were written. One of the victory novels is Garikai Mutasa's The Contact.30 Its outlook of friends versus enemies is binary and oppositional, but not along lines of race — as in the fictional white fascist accounts of the "Old North/West" - rather, along lines prefabricated by the Soviet school of socialist realism."
3. ^Ernest Emenyo̲nu - War in African Literature Today: A Review - 2008 0852555717 Page 89 "The story of the war is narrated from the third person singular, a perspective that allows the omniscient narrator to supply the reader with detailed information about the potentially conflicting war narratives in the novel. The Contact highlights the physical and military prowess of the Zanla guerrillas and the author, Garikai Mutasa does not hesitate to award all the major military victories to the armed guerrillas. "