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15 août 2009

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Silent Cry: Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices is a book of twenty-eight stories and fourteen poems, written by thirty-three young people from Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo. The pieces cover many issues, including family, gender, relationships, race, alienation, disability, HIV/AIDS, border jumping and the struggle to survive in Zimbabwe.

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amabooks

Date de parution

15 août 2009

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EAN13

9780797445062

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English

SILENT CRY
Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices
SILENT CRY
Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices
ISBN 978-0-7974-3821-7 ISBN 978-0-7974-4506-2 EAN 9780797438217
© Collection: ‘amaBooks, 2009 © Each contribution remains the copyright of the author
Published by ‘amaBooks P.O. Box AC1066, Ascot, Bulawayo amabooksbyo@gmail.com www.amabooksbyo.com
Project facilitated by Butholezwe K. Nyathi
Project funded by British Council
Cover artwork: Gilmore T. Moyo
Cover design: Veena Bhana
This book is a work of fiction: any characters, organisations and situations mentioned bear no relation to any real person, organisation or actual happening.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Contents
Introduction
Butholezwe K. Nyathi
Glossary
Part One: Identity and Diversity Beyond Scribbled Words
Just Trust Me
Bongani Ncube
My Tribe
Bubelo Thabela Mlilo
Scattered Hearts
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
The Death of My Father
Mercy T. Dube
Jabu’s Journey
Babongeni Zangelo Mlilo
R. I. P.
Lesley Phiri
My Sisters’ Clothes
Sarhanna Hassim
Identity
Munyaradzi Alfonce Gova
Sistas
Babusi Nyoni
Racial Harmony
Nadia Gori
Skin
Thando Khuphe
Bones
Khumbulani Malinga
Being Different
Tanya Hunt
Look At Me
Zisunko Ndlovu
The Beggar
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Diversity
Munyaradzi Alfonce Gova
The Token Woman
Lindah Mafu
Between the Lines
Brian Dzapasi
On the Streets
Michael Hove
Part Two: Silent Cry
The Controller of the Queue
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Uncle Tom Died
Farai Godobo
Freedom
Bongani Ncube
When You Look at Me
Sonia Chidakwa
Heartbeats
Babusi Nyoni
Mental Footpaths
Michael Hove
The Tale of an African Forest
Lee Hlalo
If Only I Could Tell You
Nobuhle Maphosa
If Only
Rebecca Dube
Wasted Years
Faith Tshuma
Tears
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
If a Dog was the Teacher
Leanne Quinche
What You Did Not Read in the Headline
Thembelihle Zulu
Borderline Birth
Gamila Elmaadawy
Nightmare Alive
Trevor Carlsson
So Sad The Song
Bongiwenkosi N. Zulu
Caine, My Friend, My Lover
Samantha Luiz
The Face of Truth
Bongani Ncube
Hell
Khayelihle Moyo
Disabled
Basil Dube
The Colour Line
Nqobizitha Malusi Nkomo
Life in the Ghetto
Siphosethu Mpofu
Life of a Zimbabwean
Michael Hove
Contributors
Introduction
Butholezwe K. Nyathi
We are delighted as the British Council Echoes of Young Voices youth group to be involved in this publication of a collection of short stories and poems by young people from Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo. This book combines the pieces in English from the two publications in Zimbabwe, Echoes of Young Voices: Identity and Diversity Beyond Scribbled Words , which was nominated for a Zimbabwe National Arts Merit Award, and Silent Cry: Echoes of Young Voices II .
Echoes of Young Voices is part of the British Council’s international Identity and Diversity project, which aims, using the arts, to encourage young people to challenge and ad