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NEW: Chinongwa - Lucy Mushita

"Chinongwa is a stark portrayal of the horrors faced by the inhabitants of a recently colonized country. Lucy Mushita’s prose masterfully inhabits the lives of a child bride and her troubled vahosi. Both characters are achingly human and where each character has been dealt difficult cards, no one wins. A remarkable period piece." - Tariro Ndoro

Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe - Mandlenkosi Mpofu and Percy F. Makombe (eds.)

Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and still seek to control the memory of that period. The chapters explore the failures of peacebuilding, finding only a negative peace, the weighty obstacle to reform of the ‘securocratic state’, and the weaknesses of transitional justice efforts and institutions, from the late 1980s to the present.

Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo

Early on in NoViolet Bulawayo’s manifoldly clever new novel, “Glory,” she completely removes the vocabulary of “people” from the story and the language of its characters, who are all animals. The book is set in Jidada, a fictional African country that can be understood as a sort of fantasia of Zimbabwe in the period between the 2017 military overthrow of its president, Robert Mugabe, and his death two years later. It is a brilliant, 400-page post-colonial fable charting the downfall of one tyrant — whose counterpart here is an elderly horse — and the rise of a new one.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 (Click here)

The Valley of Tantalika – Richard Rayner – NOW PRESCRIBED FOR ZJC

Kariba is a man-made lake, 280 kilometres long, providing Zimbabwe with electricity, and acting as a water resource and a destination for tourists. Building it required skill, imagination, money and hard work. In the process, many Tonga people lost their traditional homes and livelihoods. A sacrifice we should not forget.

A Mission Divided: the Jesuit Mission in Zimbabwe 1879–2021

Eleven Jesuits set out for the interior of southern Africa by ox-wagon in April 1879 on a mission to preach the Christian gospel to the people beyond the Limpopo River; within a year and a half, three of them were dead, They shared the same ignorance of Africa as their European contemporaries concerning disease, geography, culture, religion and the political rivalries of the people among whom they came. They also shared a narrow frame of reference towards the continent and the failure of imagination that went with it. Further, as people of their time, they saw – and were seen by – other denominations as rivals, and far from co-operating, the churches indulged in an unseemly competition.

Watch the book launch and an exclusive interview of the author by Professor David Kaulemu

Leaving So Many Behind: The Link Between Politics and the Economy - Godfrey Kanyenze

This valuable book accurately demonstrates why and how Zimbabwe’s economy deteriorated to the point of collapse. Kanyenze enumerates Zimbabwe’s seventeen economic plans and analyses why each of them failed. In brief, they are contradictory and short-term, some lasting no more than two or three years. They could never have succeeded in such a short period. – Fay Chung, former Minister of Education, and author of Re-Living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle.