Bongani Sibanda is the author of the novels Jimmy and the Giant Insects, The Goat that Refused to be Slaughtered, and the collections Grace and Other Stories, Everyone is a Robot Until Proven Otherwise and, Goodbye Thabo and Other Stories. In 2016, his short story collection was rejected by the Zimbabwean Ministry of Education for perceived political overtones.
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The issue is guest-edited by Zimbabwean writer Bongani Sibanda, the London-based Somali writer Hibaq Osman and Namibian writer Filemon Iiyambo. [Read their introduction here]. The cover image is by Central African Republic photographer Ndomété Maliko Dessande.
Zimbabwe has a literature of migrant writers. While some have lost their voices by moving away, in a manner that reflects emigration’s blessing and curse, some have discovered theirs. Bongani Sibanda writes from that destination of mixed fortunes, Johannesburg