Zimbabwe

August 2, 2023

“The Quality of Mercy”

Following The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, the Windham Campbell Prize winner concludes her City of Kings trilogy: “Her unsolved murder made what he needed to do now very difficult.”

“Black and Female”

The first essay collection from the PEN Pinter Prize winner and Booker Prize-nominated novelist: “That which is dead does not feel. We are not dead while we protest.”

NoViolet Bulawayo’s Political Allegory Glory on Booker Prize Longlist

It is the Zimbabwean’s second novel to be longlisted, after her 2013 debut We Need New Names reached the shortlist.

Blessing Musariri’s Dystopian Debut Novel

Only This Once Are You Immaculate is “a book about the life we don’t live,” said the Zimbabwean writer. “I watched it all unfold in my head as live action.”

Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins German Peace Prize 2021

The Zimbabwean author and filmmaker is the first Black woman to receive the €25,000 award from the German Book Trade Association.

NoViolet Bulawayo’s Second Novel, Glory, Is Inspired by the Fall of Robert Mugabe

The Zimbabwean writer’s “blockbuster novel about the chaos of revolution, presented as an uncannily recognizable anthropomorphic allegory,” will arrive nine years after her Booker Prize-shortlisted debut We Need New Names.

Ernest Ogunyemi

March 13, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga on Why Young Africans Need Allies

“Because they haven’t been constrained by the world, their imagination is much more agile,” said the Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, who was on the December 2020 cover of Open Country Mag.

Ada Nnadi

January 11, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression

The Zimbabwean novelist, most recently on the December 2020 cover of Open Country Mag, was arrested last year for protesting in Harare.

Uzoma Ihejirika

December 30, 2020

How Tsitsi Dangarembga, with Her Trilogy of Zimbabwe, Overcame

Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, is a modern classic, and after The Book of Not, she concludes Tambu’s story with the Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body. But the literary and film icon never planned for these to take almost four decades.

Otosirieze

December 30, 2020

Tsitsi Dangarembga Is on the December 2020 Cover of Open Country Mag

Icon in African literature. Icon in Zimbabwean film. Our debut cover story had to be on a writer whose work lights a way.

Otosirieze

December 26, 2020

Dambudzo Marechera’s Biographer Is Publishing a Memoir About Their Love Relationship

Flora Veit-Wild’s account, They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir, arrives 33 years after the iconic Zimbabwean writer’s passing.

Uzoma Ihejirika

August 2, 2023

“The Quality of Mercy”

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

January 17, 2023

“Black and Female”

The first essay collection from the PEN Pinter Prize winner and Booker Prize-nominated novelist: “That which is dead does not feel. We are not dead while we protest.”

Tsitsi Dangarembga

July 28, 2022

NoViolet Bulawayo’s Political Allegory Glory on Booker Prize Longlist

It is the Zimbabwean’s second novel to be longlisted, after her 2013 debut We Need New Names reached the shortlist.

Uzoma Ihejirika

December 25, 2021

Blessing Musariri’s Dystopian Debut Novel

Only This Once Are You Immaculate is “a book about the life we don’t live,” said the Zimbabwean writer. “I watched it all unfold in my head as live action.”

Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 27, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins German Peace Prize 2021

The Zimbabwean author and filmmaker is the first Black woman to receive the €25,000 award from the German Book Trade Association.

Uzoma Ihejirika

July 10, 2021

NoViolet Bulawayo’s Second Novel, Glory, Is Inspired by the Fall of Robert Mugabe

Ernest Ogunyemi

March 13, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga on Why Young Africans Need Allies

“Because they haven’t been constrained by the world, their imagination is much more agile,” said the Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, who was on the December 2020 cover of Open Country Mag.