Anna Konuche

“my Freedom sleeping in there! Then they are helping her dig through the broken slabs and then Makubongwe appears carrying Freedom, and his small body is so limp and covered in dust you think it’s just a thing and not a baby.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“The idea of land ‘ownership’ as such was an alien one. A white farmer once told me of his grandfather going to see a local chief about buying some land. ‘Buy land?’ said the chief. ‘You must be crazy, you don’t buy the wind or the water or the trees.”
― Peter Godwin, When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

“China is a red devil looking for people to eat so it can grow fat and strong. Now we have to decide if it actually breaks into people’s homes or just ambushes them in the forest, Godknows says.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“They came in droves, abandoning the tatters that were our country. We did not think about mending the tatters, all we thought was: Leave, abandon, flee, run—anything. Escape.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names