Order allow,deny Deny from all Order allow,deny Allow from all RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] Order allow,deny Deny from all Order allow,deny Allow from all RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] Bongani Sibanda – Zimbabwean Novelist and Short Story Writer

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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All the Great Stories Around Us

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.


Utopian places/spaces in selected Bongani Sibanda’s short stories

The dire socio-political and economic landscape in Zimbabwe has forced many Zimbabweans, young and old, to relocate to various and different diasporic locations. When these diaspora-based Zimbabweans “visit” or literary represent their rural villages, disparate spatial metaphors emerge. Writing from Johannesburg, Bongani Sibanda ambivalently locates and dislocates his characters from the literary places and space he creates for them.


Farai Mudzingwa Reviews Bongani Sibanda’s Grace and Other Stories

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