Yvonne Vera

Set in the black township of Makokoba in Bulawayo in the 1940s, following Fumbatha and Phephelaphi against the backdrop of Rhodesia's most brutal years. Vera's lyrical prose is like nothing else in African fiction.

Set during Zimbabwe's liberation war, following Mazvita who flees her burned village to the city, is raped, and makes a terrible choice about the child she carries. A spare, devastating novel about war's violence against women.