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Ethiopia’s violence in focus—Percy Zvomuya reads regional conflict through the lens of the Tigray War

October 18, 2024October 23, 2024Percy ZvomuyaLeave a Comment on Ethiopia’s violence in focus—Percy Zvomuya reads regional conflict through the lens of the Tigray War

Percy Zvomuya draws on Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan’s valuable new book Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War in a reading of…

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‘A worthy addition to the Zimbabwean library of the struggle-engaged’—Percy Zvomuya reviews An Outsider Within by Mary E Ndlovu

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024Percy ZvomuyaLeave a Comment on ‘A worthy addition to the Zimbabwean library of the struggle-engaged’—Percy Zvomuya reviews An Outsider Within by Mary E Ndlovu

Percy Zvomuya reviews Mary E Ndlovu’s memoir, An Outsider Within: A Memoir of Love, of Loss, of Perseverance. An Outsider…

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James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war book Black Fire!

September 4, 2017September 4, 2017Percy Zvomuya6 Comments on James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war book Black Fire!

In the late nineteen-seventies, James Baldwin encountered an ‘extraordinary and illuminating’ Rhodesian book, which influenced his thought around black rage…

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We are not dogs! We must get organised: Percy Zvomuya reviews The Beggars’ Strike by Aminata Sow Fall

June 5, 2017August 20, 2019Percy Zvomuya2 Comments on We are not dogs! We must get organised: Percy Zvomuya reviews The Beggars’ Strike by Aminata Sow Fall

Percy Zvomuya reviews The Beggars’ Strike, by Senegalese author Aminata Sow Fall, first published in English in 1981. The Beggars’…

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The limits of counterfactual fiction: Percy Zvomuya reviews Bertène Juminer’s Bozambo’s Revenge and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission

May 1, 2017July 26, 2018Percy Zvomuya1 Comment on The limits of counterfactual fiction: Percy Zvomuya reviews Bertène Juminer’s Bozambo’s Revenge and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission

La Revanche de Bozambo / Bozambo’s Revenge Bertène Juminer Présence Africaine, 1968 (French ed.)/Three Continents Press, 1968 (English ed.) Submission…

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