Gukurahundi” is a word that generally evokes strong emotions in Zimbabwe, for it describes a dark period in the country’s relatively young history. This novel tries to understand that part of Zimbabwe’s unsavoury past through the eyes of a young man, Sipho Dube. Ten years ago, at the age of sixteen, He left his home in rural Maramani, Matabeleland South partly to seek his fortune in…
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 racially intergrated society with mature political instotutions, he has…
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 Anyway begins, it’s 2000, and some tribes have had…
