Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In Shebeen Tales, Zimbabwe's leading author offers a view of his country not from the privileged and insulated perspective of the foreign correspondent or well-heeled visitor, but that of the ordinary person who, with the help of dry wit and illegal beer, pokes fun at the rich and mighty. Struggling against drivers, pompous bureaucrats and the other woes of life in the city, the man in the shebeen sees modern Africa as it really is, not as press releases or tourist brochures would have us believe.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Serif Publishing

Release: October 01, 1997

ISBN: 189795932X

ISBN 13: 9781897959329

Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In Shebeen Tales, Zimbabwe's leading author offers a view of his country not from the privileged and insulated perspective of the foreign correspondent or well-heeled visitor, but that of the ordinary person who, with the help of dry wit and illegal beer, pokes fun at the rich and mighty. Struggling against drivers, pompous bureaucrats and the other woes of life in the city, the man in the shebeen sees modern Africa as it really is, not as press releases or tourist brochures would have us believe.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Serif Publishing

Release: October 01, 1997

ISBN: 189795932X

ISBN 13: 9781897959329

More books from Chenjerai Hove

Red Hills Of Home

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Blind Moon

A Couple of Stops: Light Transports

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Paz con todas sus letras

Shadows

Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare

Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa

Up In Arms

Palaver Finish

Kosti

Ancestors

Shadows

Bones

Den unge scenen (DUS) 1 & 2

Ancêtres

Rate this book!

Write a review?