On June 19, 2020, Zimbabwe Health Minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested on corruption charges for engaging in an illegal 60 million dollar contract with the firm, Drax Consult, to procure coronavirus test kits and medical equipment. According to the Zimbabwe newspaper, The Sunday News, Drax Consult “was merely a consulting company with no experience in […]
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Five #StayAtHome Baking Projects Inspired by African Novels
Though lockdown orders have started to lift in certain areas, COVID-19 shows no signs of stopping any time soon. Our advice? Stay at home and try your hand at these baking projects inspired by some of our favorite African novels. Below, we’ve selected a handful of quotes that describe a particular sweet and provided a […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Ghanaian author Ayesha Harruna Attah’s The Hundred Wells of Salaga and Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body have been shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Also shortlisted is American author of Ghanaian heritage Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for his novel Friday Black. Founded in 2003, the William Saroyan International Prize for […]
Six Great Zimbabwean Novels, from Classic to Contemporary
It’s Zimbabwe’s Independence Day! To mark the occasion, we’ve picked six novels that showcase the richness of Zimbabwean literature. Some of these are classics of the African literary canon; the more contemporary ones have received numerous accolades. Which of these have you read? The House of Hunger (1978), by Dambudzo Marechera The House of Hunger is […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga Seeks Legal Representation in Dispute with Ayebia Clarke Publishing Over Rights to Her Novels
Tsitsi Dangarembga is seeking public support in her legal dispute with Ayebia Clarke Publishing in the UK. She is seeking pro bono representation in the country. Dangarembga suggests that it is “over rights to my work.” The Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker is the author of the classic Nervous Conditions and its sequel The Book of […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga on Reading Namwali Serpell, Zukiswa Wanner, & Why Ben Okri’s Latest Novel Is Like a Creative Writing Course
The Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was recent featured in The Guardian‘s “Books That Made Me” series, in which authors answer questions about other writers’ works that impacted their careers. Dangarembga is the author of the classic Nervous Conditions, and her most recent novel This Mournable Body was published by Graywolf Press in 2018. Among the […]
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