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Once Upon a Time by Vice Nganga
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, Mberengwa and Gokwe. After school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Zimbabwe and South Africa, then as a manager in several retail outlets in both countries before venturing into his own projects that he currently manages.
Vice writes in Shona and English, and Once Upon a Time is his debut novel.
Brilliance of Hope An anthology of 41...
An anthology of 41 short stories about the Zimbabwean dispersion, by 15 writers, compiled and edited by Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure. 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 writers echo the particulars of what it means to be displaced as a first generation immigrant:
Tah Rudo D M Manyere Sibonginkosi Christabel Netha Samuel Chamboko Priscilla Shumba Tariro Ndoro Brain Garusa Tinashe Junias Chipenyu Ivainashe Earnest Nyamutsamba A K Mwanyekondo James Wanangwa Kajumi Kuwali Nobuhle N Nyoni Flavian Farainashe Makovere Lazarus Panashe Nyagwambo Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Turquoise Dreams: Anthology of short ...
Designed to amplify the authentic voices of emerging writers, Turquoise Dreams is a short story collection depicting life experiences through the eyes of women in modern day Southern Africa. With contributing writers from Matebeleland, Midlands, Masvingo, Mashonaland and Manicaland, the stories portray post-colonial struggles amidst societal degeneration within a declining economic environment in Zimbabwe and beyond its borders.
There are 29 short stories in total, each ranging between 1500 and 7000 words, by the following 10 writers:
- Tinatswe Mhaka
- Mantate Queeneth Mlotshwa
- Nyasha Chiyanike
- Nadia Mutisi
- Chipo Mawarire
- Sibonginkosi Netha
- Nkosilesisa Kwanele Ncube
- Gwadamirai Majange
- Edith Moreblessings Virima
- Panashe Mawoneke
A Hole in the Air by Lazarus Panashe ...
"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 their circumstances.
In this compelling debut short story collection, Lazarus Panashe Nyagwambo offers his interpretation of the human condition, delving deep into the psyche of the personas he invents - their perspectives, motives and emotions, with a vividness that radiates from the pages.
A Hole in the Air is a blend of intriguing stories that are sometimes as comical as they are sombre. Nyagwambo's prose is as poetic as his reconnoitres of the bonds of love, family and friendship, the strengths of which he tests under the weight of this thing we call life.
Lazarus Panashe is a Zimbabwean writer and editor. He holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering that he has not used for two years. His short fiction has been published online and in print in the anthology, 'Brilliance of Hope.' He writes from betwixt the four walls of his solitary bedroom, which unbeknownst to his family, is a portal to many worlds.
The Men I have Hated by Tinatswe Mhaka
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 organisation strengthening gender advocacy and access to justice through documentation and dissemination of information. Tinatswe is passionate about digital media and the mainstreaming of injustices prevalent against women in the global south. She has numerous publications related to the emancipation of women through law and policy.
Tinatswe has previously had stories published in Turquoise Dreams, a short anthology by Zimbabwean women. She is an Atlas Corps Editorial Fellow at the Leonardo International Society of Arts, Science and Technology.
Whispers Over a Brewing Dawn by Maria...
I have crossed lands
Wearing dark crowns
Where 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 images leap off the page to startle our perceptions and embed themselves in our consciousness. The poems reverberate with a haunting musicality, floating like water lilies on the Nile, pulsing like flames in the desert night.
- Marian Christie
3: 15 am and other stories by Rudo D ...
Spanning a period from the arrival of white settlers, past the second chimurenga and its aftermath in Gukurahundi, to modern day post-colonial Zimbabwe, Rudo Manyere daringly explores the shadowed corners of history. 3:15am and other stories takes you on a journey of love, loss, betrayal and everything in between.
Manyere's debut anthology of nine short stories is a perfect blend of drama, romance steeped in historical fiction, reeling the reader into a world that is unpredictable and coloured by intrigue.
She unravels the human heart with surgical precision, bearing, with stark clarity, the worst and best parts of her characters, in love and in war.
Before the next song and other poems ...
Mapfumo Clement Chihota is a Zimbabwean poet and short-story writer. His creative works have been published Zimbabwe, South Africa, the USA and the United Kingdom in anthologies or journals such as No More Plastic Balls and other Stories (co-edited with Robert Muponde); Writing Still; Writing Now; New Coin Poetry; Tripwire Journal of Poetics; The Warwick Reviewand Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe. Mapfumo currently teaches into Community and Human Services programs at Federation University in Melbourne, Australia.
The collection Before the Next Song and other Poems was initially published by Mambo Press Publishers in 1999. It has been used as an 'A level' literature set book in Zimbabwean secondary schools.
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on ...
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale—from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.
Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. As a species, we are both far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough, a paradox that came into sharp focus as we faced a global pandemic that both separated us and bound us together.
John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this masterful collection. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a open-hearted exploration of the paths we forge and an unironic celebration of falling in love with the world.
Silence Is My Mother Tongue by Sulaim...
A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos.
For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice.
With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.
Our Stories Redefined Anthology 2022:...
Our Stories Redefined annual anthology for African writing is the vehicle for new-age African writers to tell their stories to a generation that understands them.
In this 2022 flash fiction edition, the stories focus on Afro-modernity and Afro-futurism, mainly on familial and societal relationships. It is a collection of souls wishing to be understood in a chaotic and complex environment born out of years of conditioning.
The characters in this anthology are struggling with one problem or another, a mirror of our society. It is not a collection of cynical characters but characters who have refused to drown in the world's cynicism.
Station Master Eburru and Other Stori...
In this collection of intimate, absorbing, and very human stories, Pheroze Nowrojee takes his readers back in time. The setting is the Kenya colony, roiling with undercurrents of discomfort, disaffection, and outright disobedience as colonial administrators attempted to enforce the racial stratification, coerced labour, and resource extraction that strictly benefitted themselves and their overlords.
Some laws, including those targeting suspected Mau Mau sympathizers, were modelled on the South African laws, which were much admired by the Kenya colonial administration.
Ordinary life persisted in the colony. In the Asian African community, this manifested in family businesses, cultural and religious occasions, sports events, or culinary traditions. But as people went about their daily tasks—engaging in humble livelihoods, pursuing an education, seeking adventure, finding romance, or actively resisting the colonial enterprise—the unjust British occupation and its aftermath pervaded every space and affected every relationship.
The Condom and Other Stories by Peter...
Intrigue follows intrigue as The Condom and Other Stories reels out a colorful cast of characters that readers will love and loathe at the same time.
The seventeen stories are told at pace, each laced with humor, snappy dialogue, and the occasional twist.
As the heroines and heroes wade through encounters and trying relationships, their inflamed passions, conflicted moralities, and nifty schemes come together to produce a series of amusing results.
Ugly Dogs Dont Cry by DD Armstrong
Best friends Kyle and Sideeq are beginning their first year of college in West London. Sideeq, a talented aspiring artist, spends his time perfecting his artwork, and hanging out with his friends while having to learn how to process the harrowing events of his past. Kyle‘s ambitions are to become a rapper and a successful businessman.
Though the deep bond of friendship formed between Kyle and Sideeq, puts them on a path to achieve their dreams, college soon brings with it serious teenage social politics and a bully that terrorizes their friend group. As they navigate new friendships and love interests, will the two boys continue to fortify each other and help each other succeed? Or will the newfound stressors in their lives pull them apart forever?
A modern retelling of Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men, Ugly Dogs Don’t Cry is a poignant look at intimacy, friendship, and masculinity.
An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso
How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead?
This is the question which takes a mother on an unusual journey of self-discovery, both mental and sexual. When her daughter Yinka dies, Mojisola is finally forced to stop running away from the difficulties in their relationship, and also come to terms with Yinka the woman.
Mojisola’s grief leads her on a journey of self-discovery, as she moves into her daughter’s apartment and begins to unearth the life Yinka had built for herself there, away from her family. Through stepping into Yinka’s shoes, Mojisola comes to a better understanding not only of her estranged daughter, but also herself, as she learns to carve a place for herself in the world beyond the labels of wife and mother.
A bold and unflinching tale of one women’s unconventional approach to life and loss.
Miracle Merchant by Wahome Mutahi and...
Apostle Paul Meshak Mpevu of the African Church of Modern Apostles is preacher per excellence. Crowds pack his crusades to receive divine guidance and healings that the apostle is famous for. Unknown to them, however, the Apostle has an uncanny craving for things worldly—money, influence, name it.
To achieve his ends he is in league with pretenders. extortionists, drug dealers and cartels of all descriptions. It takes the efforts of one Dhlakama, private investigator and former policeman, to unearth the mighty Apostle. But not before a number of lives have been lost and others rendered useless...
Wahome Mutahi and Wahome Karengo, well-known for their prolific journalistic and theatre exploits, join hands in this blockbuster that explores religious hypocrisy and indoctrination in the most penetrating and captivating of ways.
Clays Ark by Octavia E. Butler
An innocent family, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.
They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires - and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed.
Now the meaning of "survival" changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human...
Tales of Jideofor by Farastein Mokwenye
Could life be but a dream within a dream?
"Tales of Jideofor" is a work of historical fiction set in the 18th century, at the zenith of the transatlantic slave trade. It follows the life of a young lad, Jideofor, from Illah in Western Igbo lands down to Jamaica, through a rich tale of dreams, destiny, love and reincarnation.
In the story, Farastein blurs the lines between fact and fiction, and blends history with mystery seamlessly well, for you to see the truth within the myths of birth and death. Within the pages, you'll experience preserved Western Igbo cultures and beliefs, and life as a Negro slave in the Caribbean. You'll fall in love with Jideofor's and MaryJane's brief but beautiful love story. You'll be a witness to the destiny of dreams, and how they unfold from birth to death in the African belief in reincarnation. And in the end, you might just realize that life is indeed but a dream; that we all are Jideofor, in another face, in another place, living another tale.
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding... six-pack abs.
Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
The Colour of The Sun by Achieng Opiyo
The Colour of the Sun is a delicate series of notes, it is through uncovering these notes that true human nature is revealed to the reader.
It is through the colour of the sun that Ensley sees freedom and realizes that love is not an end in itself but a beginning without end in sight, for her husband, Smith thought to be her soulmate has hidden intentions that take an unintended journey to the forest to be revealed.
She discovers something else, her life has been marked by loneliness and infatuations coiled as love. The Colour of the Sun is a story of love, lust, tears, crime and passion.