“Whose land is it anyway” was written by Benjamin Sibangani Sibanda in 2017. This novel is a fictional story that details the events around land that took place in Zimbabwe at the turn of the millennium. The simplicity of the prose style, dialogues and funny illustrations of love and life makes this simple yet insightful story a great…
This book is dedicated to the many Africans who have perished in all forms of political violence in their own countries or as a result of xenophobic attacks in foreign lands. It also remembers those that have perished as they attempt the hazardous journeys that they feel compelled to take…
As a recently self published author, I have often been asked what it takes to get a book published. It has struck me that there are many of us out there who would like to see our thoughts and ideas in print. I have to admit at the outset that…
One of the questions I’ve often been asked by budding writers since publishing my two books is, ‘which is the better way to publish; Self Publishing or traditional publishing?’ My answer has always been pretty consistent. Self publishing if you want to be published quickly, but you have to have…
We all know company brand slogans that we immediately identify with particular products. “It’s the real thing” immediately brings to mind a popular fizzy drink; or “Just Do it”, which identifies a particular brand of casual wear. Closer to home, we have, over the years many slogans that will help…
To my – and many others I’m sure – astonishment, our President Emmerson Dambudzo (ED) Munangagwa, apparently donated one million Dollars (American) to a global fund on HIV etc., after stopping over in Uganda where he received `The most Excellent Order of the Pearl of Africa’ from President Yoweri Museveni…
Robert Mugabe On the morning of Friday, September 6th, 2019, I woke up to the news of Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s death. I felt nothing. No anger, no elation, no sympathy, no empathy, no pity; nothing. Even to myself, this was a surprising reaction. For most of my life – in…
A young lady I gave a lift to into town the other day told me that she was going into hospital for a review of injuries she suffered as a result of being beaten up by people who were ‘stealing’ firewood from her resettlement farm. After the initial shock at…
It is perhaps instructive of the state of our country that the only thing that currently works with clockwork precision and efficiency is the times at which the national Power utility switches us off and on. For most of us – the vast majority I think – this means that…
enhlanyeni (Sindebele for ‘a place for mad people’) I remember when I was young, hearing about a place called enhlanyeni (Sindebele for ‘a place for mad people’), where one of the tests used to determine ones ‘madness’ was to give them a bucket full of holes and asking them to…
In 1980, Zimbabwe gained its independence from a minority white government. Tribes of indigenous black people expected to reclaim their ancestors’ land, which had been taken over by white farmers. But after twenty years, the tribes were still forced to live on barren, crowded “reserves.”Now, as Who’s Land Is It…
This is a novel about one Godknows Kuzvida who, having grown up in racially segregated Rhodesia, finds himself travelling to the United Kingdom to further his education. Starting on the flight out, he experiences life in which, by and large, his race does not matter.Starting his adult life in a…