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“shingi mavima”

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  • The Leak

    by Shingi Mavima ...
    In this episodic novella, Mavima introduces Kuda, a man in his early 20s, living a banal existence shared by many of his peers in contemporary Harare. He has resigned himself to the life of mundane, inescapable drudgery. As he listlessly navigates the throes of early adulthood in urban Zimbabwe, Kuda worries that his existence may already have plateaued. When his US-based cousin Tawanda visits ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pan African Spaces

    Essays on Black Transnationalism

    by Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia, Semien Abay, Afua Ansong, Yelena Bailey, Eugene Mikobi Bope, Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo, Sayuni Brown0, Courtney Cain1, Krista L. Cortes2, Ariana Curtis3, Mekdela Ejigu4, Shelvia English5, Zoë Gadegbeku6, Dayne Hutchinson7, Maurisa Li-A-Ping8, Ray Mann-Hamilton9, Shingi Mavima0, Tolulope F. Odunsi1, Gabriel Peoples2, Anthony Polanco3, Indhira Rosa Serrano Redondo4, Margaret E. Salifu5, Carolina Nve Diaz San Francisco6, Kat J. Stephens7, Keisha V. Thompson8, Nenelwa Tomi9, Jessica (Omilani) Alarcon0, Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves1 ...
    This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • The Fishermen

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  • Who Will Bury You?

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    by Chido Muchemwa ...
    Finalist, 2025 Ontario Trillium Book AwardA Boston Globe Best Book of 2024Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2024Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own.Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant stories in Who Will Bury You? touch on themes of loss, identity, and inequality as ... Read more

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  • Anansi the Trickster Spider - Volume One

    by Lynne Garner ...
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  • Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa

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  • Twiggy In The United States 1967

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