African Books Collective: April/May new titles

The Uncertainty of Hope
Valerie Tagwira
This novel has been described by Charles Mungoshi as ‘an astonishing debut’. The various and complex lives of Onai Moyo - a market woman and mother of three children, and her best friend Katy Nguni - a vendor and black-market currency dealer, give an insight into the challenges that face those who are surviving by their wits, their labour and mutual support.

Other newly available titles include:

The Mediator. Gen. Lazaro Sumbeiywo and the Southern Sudan Peace Process
Waithaka Waihenya

Shona Companion: A Practical Guide to Zimbabwe’s most Widely Spoken Language
D. Dale

African Oral Story-telling Tradition and the Zimbabwean Novel in English
Maurice Taonezvi Vambe

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