Zimbabwe Stories

The Adulting Series is a contemporary collection of short stories exploring the lived realities of young Zimbabwean women navigating adulthood. Through themes of identity, societal pressure, relationships, silence, and becoming, each story captures the quiet complexities of growing up in a world that often tells women who they should be before they discover who they truly are.

Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves and deep inside I know this well but what will differentiate me from them. A painfully traumatic past that resurfaced in unexpected ways for the female lead has her questioning her life . She'd forgotten...well almost.. about the horrors she went through, she was making progress with becoming a better person but why does she always feel vengeful and murderous? Sometimes she hurts people without any feelings attached to the pain she inflicted. She's a mess until she meets a golden retriever....alien ....ah yes

Tawanda is a 16year old boy in love for the first time and desperately trying to fit in. His girlfriend Mbali is outgoing and seems to bring out a side of him that he loves but good intentions sometimes lead to unexpected and often devastating outcomes. This is a coming-of age story like no other with shocking twists and turns and a universal relatability. *trigger warning* *Strong language used in some parts*

Schoolteacher Fiona is on a mission for grandpa - find a missing Zimbabwean artefact, the precious soapstone "Bird of the Gods". Conrad - dodgy archaeologist contracted to the stunning influencer Amanda aka #mandalove - has the same job. When Fiona and Conrad's paths cross, what was supposed to be a straightforward quest turns into a crazy race around the world. With antagonists popping up at every corner - from mountain tops to underground settings like Serbian caves, frozen Canadian crypts, and the silver mines of the old West, Fiona and Conrad have to work together to catch their bird. Mutual respect grows into something more intimate. But not everything is quite as it seems, and they had better watch their backs lest they too end up underground, this time permanently.

THEY BROKE HER.......... #6 mixedraces 16/08/20 #12 Zimbabwe 22/08/20

When the worst of times are the best of times Two years before Nikita Khrushchev's famous shoe banging incident at a United Nations gathering, the writer's father fears political sabre rattling is leading up to another war. Losing parents, wife and child still fresh in his mind he evacuates his young new family to colonial Southern Rhodesia. While the Cold War takes hold on the other side of the equator and Patrice Lumumba is murdered in the Belgian Congo, life is good. Labour hopefuls in the UK make idealistic promises, igniting an untimely process with serious repercussions for ordinary Rhodesians. Skipping some thirty years of 'hard-labour' in the global corporate world the writer is at crossroads of his own. Picking himself up, he heads back to what was Rhodesia. Zimbabwe has retained its vast natural beauty and once again, life is good. Eventually, totally unprepared, he ventures into farming. With more than 350 men, women and children living on his land, two villages and a cemetery he develops a deeper understanding or lack thereof and discovery of a whole new world of pitfalls and astonishment, simultaneously rewarding and excruciatingly painful. After ten years in the 'Most Beautiful Empty Spot on Earth' the wheels come off as the country sinks into financial quagmire. Inspired by his father's life lessons and ability of 'starting again', humour is never far beneath the surface, despite mishaps, heartaches and hardships. Anecdotes backed up with just a few historical insights provide the reader with a light-hearted narrative of a writer who (almost) always sees the bright side.

Schoolteacher Fiona is on a mission for grandpa - find a missing Zimbabwean artefact, the precious soapstone "Bird of the Gods". Conrad - dodgy archaeologist contracted to the stunning influencer Amanda aka #mandalove - has the same job. When Fiona and Conrad's paths cross, what was supposed to be a straightforward quest turns into a crazy race around the world. With antagonists popping up at every corner - from mountain tops to underground settings like Serbian caves, frozen Canadian crypts, and the silver mines of the old West, Fiona and Conrad have to work together to catch their bird. Mutual respect grows into something more intimate. But not everything is quite as it seems, and they had better watch their backs lest they too end up underground, this time permanently.

The story of what it truly takes to be an African chief in the face of tradition, religion and familial expectations. A woman loses her husband and begins a journey to discover the truth about her late husband's family, that he kept from her.🇿🇼🇬🇭

poetry on how to be a leader

This is a conversation between 2 loved ones who are sending letters to another back and forth

Rumbidzai is a young ambitious and principled girl. He fell in love with Ngoni, a hardworking 28 year old guy and very rich than most of his age. Later, Rumbidzai falls in love with Makina who happens to be Ngoni's twin brother. Meanwhile, Ngoni now dates Makina's wife, Serina. What a swap!

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Memories of growing up and living in Zimbabwe: 1971 to 2018.