Yvonne Vera was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Her works WHY DON'T YOU CARVE OTHER ANIMALS and NEHANDA were short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Award Africa Region in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
Fiction. African & African American Studies. New Edition with an introduction by M G Vassanji. In the late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Nehanda, a village girl, is ...
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Fiction. African & African American Studies. Short Stories. New Edition with an introduction by M G Vassanji. The place is white-ruled Rhodesia of the seventies (now Zimbabwe), the exile the African in his or her own land. Young men and women flee f...