Petina Gappah

Guardian First Book Award winner Petina Gappah has launched a collection of short stories which she titled Rotten Row after the Harare road on which the Magistrate’s Courts are located.
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By Tidi Kwidini The Zimbabwe Achievers awards will this year give special recognition to women blazing trails in the media and arts industry. Running under the theme, Celebrating Women in Media and Arts, the awards ceremony will…
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Award-winning Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah is part of a 12-strong longlist for the 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.
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Allow me please, to introduce you to one of my favourite words, assuming of course that you do not know it already. It is a wonderfully evocative Yiddish word for which there is no one-word equivalent in English.
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By Lance Guma LONDON - Prominent former student leader and UK based lawyer Tinomudaishe Chinyoka has joined Zanu PF and immediately announced his intention to challenge fellow lawyer Jessie Majome (MDC-T) for the Harare West…
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It’s a monumental task but with the help of our listeners and readers we know we can come up with a list of the 100 greatest Zimbabweans of all time. We are drawing up a list of ten candidates from ten categories to make a list of 100.
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Early last Thursday morning, the day after Zimbabweans had gone to the polls to choose a new president and to send new representatives to our two houses of parliament and to urban and rural councils, I received a panicked call from a friend…
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Prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, believes that intelligence agents loyal to Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party orchestrated a plot to humiliate and embarrass him ahead of his wedding, which was to have taken place last Saturday.
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Some say Zimbabwe's diamonds are drenched in blood. They are wrong. To NGOs, the gems represent the repression they campaign against. But these riches could transform my country writes Petina Gappah.
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By Petina Gappah Some great and surprising news: my book has been short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award which is funded by the Cork City Council and organised by the Munster Literature Centre. I have been shortlisted along…
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