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
The Hairdresser of Harare
Glory
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
House of Stone
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
The Book of Memory
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
The House of Hunger
The Grass Is Singing

Petina Gappah
Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a place like this, where we all know the smell of each other’s armpits. - ‘The Mupondawana Dancing Champion
Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

Thabo Katlholo
At one level the story of the second fall of Zimbabwe can be read as tragic yet a courageous one: a simple but soaring binary about unfounded courage in the face of immeasurable oppression. But at another level, it is a window into a much more complex, perhaps even darker and sadder, narrative about contemporary slaveship and the terrible collision of aspiration and frustration and the need to survive that has been unleashed upon the people of Zimbabwe. Exploitation and oppression are not matter ...more
Thabo Katlholo, The Mud Hut I Grew Upon

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