Anna Konuche

“guess it was supposed to be this crazy new dance, daggering is the name of it. I thought it strange and wrong, but after a while I found myself clapping because that’s what everyone was doing. When a new, quieter song came on, Tony turned me around and”
― 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

“when it is kept in like a heart, like blood, when you do not do anything with it, when you do not use it to hit, or even yell? Such rage is nothing, it does not count. It is just a big, terrible dog with no teeth.”
― 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