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 House of Hunger
The Grass Is Singing

Petina Gappah
It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana,’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.’ - ‘Aunt Juliana’s Indian
Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

A person is a person through others. This truth extends across time and space. We are through those who have come before us, those who have come with us and those who will come after us. Spirit possession, at the heart of Chimurenga, is an exercise in timelessness. It is those in the present communing with those in the past about the future concerning those who will come. Chimurenga has always been the intergenerational spirit of African self-liberation. It is not linear, it is bones that go int ...more
Panashe Chigumadzi, These Bones Will Rise Again

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