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In this debut collection of poems, Marshal Muhaga traverses the streets he grew up on to unveil an array of memories, experiences and emotions woven into the very fabric of society. Sometimes wry, sometimes longing, his voice navigates the labyrinthine streets to paint a vivid panorama of the township's vibrant traditions alongside the resilience of the human spirit. From the bustling markets to the rhythmic beats of music, the reader is immer...

Editors' Note Zimbabwe has a rich creative tradition, with a wealth of poetic talent. However, opportunities and exposure are limited, particularly for contemporary Zimbabwean women poets. As editors we have sought to address this. From the outset our aims were clear: we wanted to provide a safe space in which Zimbabwean women could express themselves through poetry, to include a broad representation of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, ...

This book seeks to highlight some of the difficult imperial histories and legacies embedded in the Ethnographic Collection of the National Museum of Ireland and enable dialogue with source communities as well as Irish audiences. Ethnographic material acquired as part of the British Empire, represents the duality of Irish participation with the structure and practices of Empire and Ireland's own experience as Britain's oldest colony. From the l...

In this collection, Joseph Matose asks how the world of the living is seen and remembered by those who have died. To answer his question, he presents a range of voices - glad and sorrowful, expectant and frustrated, truthful and untruthful, lascivious, gossipy, dreamlike, ironic, cynical, moral, religious, and even claiming to be wise - purporting to come from the residents of graveyards. Between them, they paint a picture of human affairs the...

I have crossed landsWearing dark crownsWhere the sun should be.from 'Glow' Marial Awendit dares to dream and to share his dreams, drawing us into a world of searing contrasts - fire and water, beauty and ugliness, love and rage, darkness and light, war and resistance, God and the devil. In the process he considers profound, existential questions. What is the purpose of suffering? How do we define freedom? Can hope flower from pain? Surreal ima...

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Dzikamayi Chando was born and raised in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Some of his works appear in several online literary publications and Cremation of the Scarecrow is his debut collection.'Cremation of the Scarecrow is an impressively diverse and generous collection that talks to the truths of blackness, the ghetto experience and plight of poverty, unemployment and drug abuse, dilemma of immigration, identity crisis and discovery of self, depression and ...

Pano paita nhetembo dzanyandurikadzi vari kuvheneka zvinoitika kana chizvagwa chomuZimbabwe chasunga tundu chikatamira kune dzimwe nyika. Kufara nokuchema kwevapoteri kunobudiswa zvine unyanzvi munhetembo dziri mugwaro rino. Muchisetswa nokuchemedzwa kudero, muchavhugwa fungwa nokudzidza zvakawanda pamusoro pechivanhu chakafindikwa mumutauro unotapira wechiKaranga.

The air was thick with something unspoken, something opaque, yet intangible that filled the gaping holes inside all of us"Plagued by abysses that portend eternal nights, curtailed by the jagged pieces of life's puzzle and bound on all horizons by the faded colours of yesterday, the people in these stories inhabit a world where their characters cease to be firm, self-defined entities and become fluid, ambiguous consciences as they are thawed by...

Intended to record a crucial element of African history in the making, this short story anthology depicts experiences of the Zimbabwean diaspora through perspectives of writers based in Australia, Dubai, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Zimbabwe. The fictional and autobiographical narratives herein collectively reflect on the resilience and hope intrinsic to the Zimbabwean dispersion. Entangled in a common quandary, these writer...

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As I (very reluctantly) approach my late mid-twenties, I can't help but think back on the many conversations I have had over the years. However, more than this, I can't help but regret the ones I didn't have. That's what this book is about. It is a collection of conversations that I could have, would have and should have had but didn't because they were too difficult or too awkward or too honest. This is an assortment of 100 letters to differe...

Two's company... five is definitely a crowd!The Polygamist weaves a tale of four women whose lives become intertwined when they all fall for a wealthy banking magnate Jonasi Gomora. Seemingly indomitable, and oozing money, power and sex appeal, Jonasi is about to complicate all their lives forever.Joyce is pampered wife number one who lives in the lap of luxury. She believes she has the perfect marriage until Matipa rears her coiffed head. Mat...

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The bog in the townland of Edercloon, Co. Longford, first came to archaeological attention in 1964, when a local farmer discovered a prehistoric stone axe that retained a portion of its original wooden handle.

Chelsea Mtada's DAUGHTER is a collection of prose and poetry that explores themes of love, trauma, sacrifice and gratitude. Mtada divides the book into four sections - Blood, Bones, Body and Magic - that follow the poet's growth from girl to womanhood. Mtada begins by exploring the trauma related to her family and the dynamics that exist within it. One of Mtada's overarching themes in this collection is the act of sacrifice and how it affects ...

Chelsea Mtada's DAUGHTER is a collection of prose and poetry that explores themes of love, trauma, sacrifice and gratitude. Mtada divides the book into four sections - Blood, Bones, Body and Magic - that follow the poet's growth from girl to womanhood. Mtada begins by exploring the trauma related to her family and the dynamics that exist within it. One of Mtada's overarching themes in this collection is the act of sacrifice and how it affects ...

A Zimbabwean woman takes readers on a journey through relationships with men from childhood to her adulthood. She interrogates the meaning of freedom and her place in the world through her experience of patriarchy in family, love and inescapable burdens of womanhood. ¿Tinatswe Mhaka (BA) (LLB) is an author, lawyer, feminist digital storyteller and activist from Harare, Zimbabwe. Tinatswe is the founder of Feminist Voices Zimbabwe, an organis...

When Runesu boldly steals a bride from her betrothed, it sets into motion a series of events that take a toll on the whole community. This is a story about love, betrayal, revenge and justice in which the author weaves an intricate web of characters and Karanga cultural practices into a rich tapestry of life in pre-colonial Zimbabwe.Vice Nganga was born in Gweru in Zimbabwe. He attended six schools from primary to high school in Hwange, Gweru,...