By Patricia Farrell. One day Amos Amoke finds his shop has been destroyed to make way for a new building. "How will I feed my family?" he cries. With a tree stump for a chair, the barber attends to his custo...

After losing her mother, Jessicah leaves for Nairobi in search of a father she has never known. In the city, she encounters Granny Zippo, a woman full of wisdom and friend to children who survive by living off ...

Two titles complete the four-part series of African history, told by Africans from an African perspective. Recommended for schools in Zimbabwe, the series represents a reclaiming of history from the distortions...

Zimbabwean history is covered from a socialist perspective. Book 1 describes pre- colonial African history, enlivened by many drawings, photographs, original sources and maps which are integrated into the text....

Two titles complete the four-part series of African history, told by Africans from an African perspective. Recommended for schools in Zimbabwe, the series represents a reclaiming of history from the distortions...

This new Zambian woman writer is a leader in Zambia on issues concerned with women and development. In her first novel she puts into focus the degrading beliefs and practices of a male-dominated society. Dealin...

These ten short stories from the prize-winning Zimbabwean writer Charles Mungoshi, were banned in (the then) Rhodesia, but some were published in Europe. One of the stories,'The Setting Sun and the Rolling Worl...

The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent's most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash o...