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Four years after its first publication, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s award-winning debut novel House of Stone has now been published by Interkontinental Verlag in the German translation of Simone Jakob. The weighty subject Tshuma chose for House of Stone is the Gukurahundi, the genocide in Zimbabwe that took place in the 1980s under Prime Minister Robert […]
more...Glory is a book at once comical and horrifying. Cynical and unforgiving, yet somehow hopeful in its last breaths, NoViolet Bulawayo’s second Booker Prize shortlisted novel is keen political commentary and formal innovation in one.
more...This Mournable Body is undoubtedly an important book, but it’s more than a little difficult to read. The deservedly renowned Zimbabwean novelist, filmmaker and playwright Tsitsi Dangarembga presents a devastating portrait of her country after independence has finally been achieved, but has failed to produce the equitable utopia that the struggle seemed to promise would follow liberation from colonial oppression.
more...Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania… Here are five books we can recommend to take you on some journeys through Southern Africa.
more...This essay is the third in a four-part series on Afropolitanism and literature. Brian Chikwava has not written a theoretical treatise on Afropolitanism. But his novel Harare North has been much discussed in the context of Afropolitanism.
more...Zimbabwean poet and performer Linda Gabriel talks to Anna von Rath of poco. lit. about empowering women and children through permaculture and education with her non-profit organization Bontle Bahao.
more...Panashe Chigumadzi’s non-fictional These Bones Will Rise Again is a thought-provoking reflection on the intertwined histories of Zimbabwe, and how they have been told.
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