These Bones Will Rise Again

A leading writer of Zimbabwe s born-free generation reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to include the perspectives of workers, women and urban movements. 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. Chigumadzi successfully nests the intimate charge of her poignant personal story in the sweeping historical account and mythology of Zimbabwe.

Un scriitor de frunte al generatiei fara nastere din Zimbabwe reflecta asupra demiterii din noiembrie 2017 a lui Robert Mugabe, reformuland radical istoria Zimbabwe pentru a include perspectivele muncitorilor, femeilor si miscarilor urbane. In noiembrie 2017, oamenii din Zimbabwe au iesit in strada intr-o alianta fara precedent cu armata.