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
This Mournable Body
The Hairdresser of Harare
Glory
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
House of Stone
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
The Book of Memory
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
The Grass Is Singing
The House of Hunger
Bleeding Stubs by Donald O. BesongBlood Safari by Deon MeyerHeart of the Hunter by Deon MeyerVeiled Madness by Greer Noble7 Days by Deon Meyer
Best African Thriller or Suspense
32 books — 24 voters

A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi ShawlBlood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
21 books — 8 voters
Penguins Stopped Play by Harry ThompsonBeyond a Boundary by C.L.R. JamesA Corner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra GuhaBob Woolmer's Art and Science of Cricket by Bob WoolmerChinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
Cricket
238 books — 93 voters


What is hyperinflation? It is the dramatic process of an established currency losing its usefulness as money. Prices rise rapidly and uncontrollably as a result of excessive money printing and a loss of confidence in the currency.
Philip Haslam, When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money

In 2002, BBC jounalists Fergal Keane and Mark Dowd made a documentary for the Panorama programme in which they asked how much Whithall had known about Gukurahundi. Sir Martin Ewans, who was high commissioner in Harare at the time, went on camera to say that his instructions from London were 'to steer clear of it' when speaking to Mugabe. ...more
Geoff Hill, What Happens after Mugabe?

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