This is the third work from the pen of Giles Kuimba, whose other works’Gehena Harina Moto; (Hell has no fire),’Tambaoga Mwanangu’ (Play it alone my son) are a great success. This is an action packed account …

A historical examination of African Christianity in Botswana, as now expressed in the African Independent Church. The study charts the development of this popular movement as a form of Christianity based on a m…

This study concentrates on the diversity of Christianity and Christian missions in Zimbabwe, and their impact on socio-economic and cultural-religious contexts, as well as the reverse influence of these dimensi…

Newly available for the first time outside Africa, this large-format and substantially illustrated book comprehensively describes and depicts traditional African instruments, grouping them as string instruments…

This book traces how black people’s culture – ideas, beliefs and struggles – has expressed itself through song theatre, poetry, film, TV, and other oral cultural modes. It assesses to what extent orality has be…

Shona literature now comprises 85% of literature published for schools in Zimbabwe, an indication of its significance for the understanding of the philosophical and historical base of (the understanding of) a l…

An essential addition to the reference works on Shona, a Bantu language, and one of Zimbabwe’s major languages, spoken by about three quarters of the country’s population. Shona is spoken as far north as Congo,…

The companion volume to A Basic English-Shona Dictionary is now widely available for the first time outside Africa. It contains some 6,000 main entries, and an additional 700 words, derived or borrowed from oth…

An illustrated reference book to the basic grammar of the Shona language, aimed at second language speakers of Shona. Topics covered include tenses and moods of verbs, noun classes and class relationships, adve…

A practical guide to Zimbabwe’s most widely spoken language. It contains detailed sections on adjectives, adverbials, infix and deficient verbs, moods of verbs, parts of speech, comparative and superlative cons…

This book presents an outline of recent developments and approaches in Christian historiography. It reviews and assesses four important contributions by non-African historians to the field of study, Baur, Isich…

This was a seminal contribution to the history of the Zimbabwean liberation war, which ended with independence in 1980. The book takes a considered view of both sides in the guerrilla war, but is particularly c…

Revised, updated and still very relevant, this book focuses on the centrality of the land question, in the study of modern Zimbabwean history. It reviews previously published studies, and introduces new materia…

This book is a collection of popular Ndebele proverbs and other figurative expressions. For a deeper understanding of the meanings, the author gives a literal explanation and where possible its background. He a…

Novel by Pauline Henson. Case Closed new work in the genre of detective fiction, and the first in a planned series. The story is set in Zimbabwe, and features Chief Inspector Caleb Dube and his assistant, Se…

Newly reissued and widely available outside Africa for the first time, these short stories by Charles Mungoshi, one of Zimbabwe’s most prolific and successful writers, were originally composed in the 1970s. The…

This book brings together some seventy- five of the author’s articles from The Herald and The Zimbabwe Mirror written over a period of five years, with photographs of some of the objects of art about which she …

By Michael Bourdillon. Newly reissued, this book is still regarded as one of the best synthesis of ethnographic research undertaken amongst the Shona people, taking indigenous religion and culture as a start…

Newly reissued, this remains a rare work on the systems of interpretation and meaning, mythological traditions and realities of the Karanga people in Zimbabwe. The author considers the Karanga’s cosmology, as a…