Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Let It Die” – Deactivating Representative Fictions | Onai Mushava | Review

  A mother of the nation in the tradition of Nehanda, the heroine of our story is a late veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation war. But the voice that rises from her coffin, messes around the smoky hut, and bonds chest to chest during her funeral wake is nothing like the singular and defiant: “My bones […]

Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Let It Die” – Deactivating Representative Fictions | Onai Mushava | Review
  A mother of the nation in the tradition of Nehanda, the heroine of our story is a late veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation war. But the voice that rises from her coffin, messes around the smoky hut, and bonds chest to chest during her funeral wake is nothing like the singular and defiant: “My bones […]