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
Glory
This Mournable Body
The Hairdresser of Harare
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
The House of Hunger
House of Stone
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Book of Memory
The Grass is Singing
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,881 books — 1,762 voters

The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerSerpent's Kiss by Thea HarrisonEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
22 books — 11 voters
Simply Effective by Ron AshkenasHarvard Business Review Leader's Handbook by Ron AshkenasBelieve In Yourself And Your Dreams by Emmanuel DeanFrom Broken to Loved Again by Emmanuel DeanWrapped Up in You by Carole Matthews
African Romances
89 books — 6 voters

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter GodwinMukiwa by Peter GodwinThe Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
Books Set in Zimbabwe
130 books — 101 voters


Mark Gevisser
Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe. In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the ruling ANC, there i ...more
Mark Gevisser

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
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