A lyrical yet powerful book, Chigumadzi combines her very personal experiences and those of her family with an incisive stance on the history and politics of Zimbabwe. ‘Zimbabwe has had many versions of history’, she writes, and this double-stranded narrative prompts us to rethink these histories and indeed the very idea of history itself.
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Chigumadzi’s exploration of personal, family and national history reincarnates in stark, vivid images, many of those interred in the shadows of her country’s “Big Men”.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Chipo Kureya’s reading enacts a mediumship all of its own, beginning and ending with song.
