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Books
Fiction
By Dambudzo Marechera
Recommended by Women Advocacy Project
From Amazon: This explosive, award-winning novella of growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), told in exquisite, imaginative prose, touches the reader’s nerve through the author’s harrowing portrait of lives disrupted by white settlers, a young disillusioned black man, and individual suffering in the 1960s and 1970s. Marechera’s raw, piercing writings secured his place in African literature as a stylistic innovator and rebel commentator of the ghetto condition.
Non-Fiction
The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe
By David Coltart
Recommended by Women Advocacy Project
From Amazon: David Coltart is one of the most prominent political and human rights figures in Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was elected to Parliament and, following the creation of a ‘coalition’ government in September 2008, he was appointed Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, a position he held until August 2013. Over the years, Coltart has been threatened, detained, spuriously prosecuted and has survived several direct attempts on his life. For three decades, Coltart has kept detailed notes and records of all his work, including a meticulous diary of Cabinet dealings, the source material for much of his book.
Films
The forested hills of Zimbabwe may not seem like typical cheetah habitat. But it’s here that cinematographer Kim Wolhuter forges an amazing relationship with a wild cheetah family.
Also available via pbs.org.
Nature: Dogs in the Land of Lions
Follow the journey of wild dogs in Zimbabwe.
Recommended by Women Advocacy Project