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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tawanda Mudzonga

Zimbabwe, she wrote: the women telling their country’s story for a new era

Composite image of nine women at the forefront of a ‘seminal moment’ in Zimbabwean literature, with the books that are making waves
Women at the forefront of a ‘seminal moment’ in literature, with the books that are making waves. Composite: supplied

A handful of events, says author Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, define her generation. “The war, the HIV crisis, migration and the brain drain, and the creation of the Zimbabwean diaspora.”

They have not been topics that the country’s rulers want spoken of and many who have spoken frankly about Zimbabwe have been imprisoned or persecuted. But a new generation of female novelists is exploring the people, the political problems and the history of this complicated and still fledgling nation.

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