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20/12/2025

https://amabooksbyo.blogspot.com/2025/12/ignatius-t-mabasas-mad-reviewed-by-pat.html

Getting through the 1990s The 90s were a vibrant time of political and economic shifts. The 25-year-old State of Emergency was lifted and th...

31/10/2025

25/10/2025

Elliot Ziwira's article in The Herald on the launch of Ignatius Mabasa's The Mad and the opening of Samantha Vezhure's exhibition Nzwisa....

16/10/2025

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10/10/2025

'We are all the richer for the penetrative insights and experiences this important novel can give us.' Read the full review by Diana Rodri...

28/08/2025

English readers can now encounter African novels as they were first imagined, in the rhythms of their own languages.

28/08/2025

Tendai Huchu's novel The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician is to be discussed this weekend (30 August) at the Bulawayo Book Clu...

24/07/2025

Mapenzi, translated into English by J. Tsitsi Mutiti as The Mad, available from 29 July in the UK and soon afterwards in Zimbabwe.

One of Zimbabwe’s most iconic novels is coming to English-language readers. Mapenzi is the Shona-language classic by Zimbabwean academic Ignatius T. Mabasa and has been translated into English as The Mad by J. Tsitsi Mutiti, with cover art by Lovemore Kambudzi. The translation is the first title i...