Description
| Product ID: | 9781999683306 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Mood Indigo |
| Title: | These Bones Will Rise Again |
| Authors: | Author: Panashe Chigumadzi |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, African history, Reportage & collected journalism, African history, Zimbabwe, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir and critical analysis, Zimbabwean novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the 'coup that was not a coup', the telling of history and manipulation of time and the ancestral spirts of two women - her own grandmother and Mbuya Nehanda, the grandmother of the nation. What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the spirit of a nation? In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the liberation struggle, and wrest their country back from over thirty years of Robert Mugabe''s rule. In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir and critical analysis, Zimbabwean novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the ''coup that was not a coup'', the telling of history and manipulation of time and the ancestral spirts of two women - her own grandmother and Mbuya Nehanda, the grandmother of the nation. |
| Imprint Name: | The Indigo Press |
| Publisher Name: | The Indigo Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-06-14 |