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Some of the best current writing comes from Africa and its diaspora. Lucy Mushita lives in France and Australia, but in her first novel looks back at her birthplace, Zimbabwe. In the last century, the white colonisers, called kneeless , ruled. They impoverished the country, and traditional patriarchy meant the women suffered most. Chinongwa was only nine, but her family had little choice but to sell her into marriage.
When Lorin Clarke was growing up, it was not uncommon for strangers to ask if her father, the beloved satirist John Clarke, was “funny at home”. Her answer, in this memoir, is emphatic. “He was outrageously, consistently, shockingly, will-I-ever-breathe-again hilarious’.′ Having an argument with him as a teenager was infuriating. On one occasion, she found herself laughing and stomping her foot at the same time.
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