Zimbabwe
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I hated ‘Half of a Yellow Sun when I first read it. To be fair, I was only fourteen years old and I had just gotten off the Enid Blyton express. To put it simply, my mind was not yet accustomed to mature themes and I could not get around Ugwu’s gauche yet charming interest…
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I grew up reading books that felt foreign and dishonest, with characters I could not relate to and whose lives I could not quite emulate. From Hans Christian Andersen to Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, my young imagination was fed by stories of talking mermaids and child detectives, who outsmarted the police and ate cucumber…
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Identity is a central part of human existence and the degree to which it is essential cannot be overstated. So, does Noviolet Bulawayo succeed in communicating the issues that surround contemporary Zimbabwean identity, or is the novel simply an exhausting collection of clichéd issues in African literature? This article will examine the concerns raised in…
By Augustine 