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
Glory
The Hairdresser of Harare
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
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
The House of Hunger
Bleeding Stubs by Donald O. BesongBlood Safari by Deon MeyerHeart of the Hunter by Deon MeyerVeiled Madness by Greer Noble7 Days by Deon Meyer
Best African Thriller or Suspense
32 books — 24 voters
Penguins Stopped Play by Harry ThompsonBeyond a Boundary by C.L.R. JamesA Corner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra GuhaBob Woolmer's Art and Science of Cricket by Bob WoolmerChinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
Cricket
239 books — 93 voters

We Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoSend Her Back and Other Stories by Munashe KasekeHitting Budapest by NoViolet BulawayoSnapshots - Nouvelles voix du Caine Prize by NoViolet BulawayoHis Middle Name Was Not Jesus by NoViolet Bulawayo
Voice form Zimbabwe in Literature
27 books — 2 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



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

Mark Gevisser
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.
Mark Gevisser

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