This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
Jeffrey WhittamTags: gold adventure war africa historical-fiction diamonds warriors cecil-rhodes zimbabwe lobengula mashonaland matabele rhodesia shangani
The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives.
Alexandra FullerTags: children war africa descriptive zimbabwe rhodesia
What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered and, if they were not quick enough, were spattered in blood. Then came the jolt, as of a fall, and I saw the leg was caught in an ungainly way in the smaller branches of a mutamba tree, the foot hooked, long like that infamous fruit.
Tsitsi DangarembgaTags: violence civil-war trauma zimbabwe rhodesia land-mine
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