Zimbabwe

Books in this genre are set in or about Zimbabwe.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Zimbabwe"

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
We Need New Names
Leaving Before the Rains Come
Buck: A Memoir
Dingo Firestorm: The Greatest Battle of the Rhodesian Bush War
The Book of Memory
Diamond Boy
The White Shadow
104 Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile
The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician
The Death of Rex Nhongo
Dark Lands
Nervous Conditions
We Need New Names
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Glory
This Mournable Body
The Hairdresser of Harare
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
The House of Hunger
House of Stone
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Book of Memory
The Grass is Singing
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

Petina Gappah
This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.
Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory

Thabo Katlholo
At one level the story of the second fall of Zimbabwe can be read as tragic yet a courageous one: a simple but soaring binary about unfounded courage in the face of immeasurable oppression. But at another level, it is a window into a much more complex, perhaps even darker and sadder, narrative about contemporary slaveship and the terrible collision of aspiration and frustration and the need to survive that has been unleashed upon the people of Zimbabwe. Exploitation and oppression are not matter ...more
Thabo Katlholo, The Mud Hut I Grew Upon

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