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Female genital mutilation is the excruciating and damaging experience that a lot of women in many cultures across Africa and in many other parts of the world suffer.

2004 Caine Prize was awarded to the short story Seventh Street Alchemy by Brian Chikawava. The story is in this anthology, Writing Still.

"Failure is not in my vocabulary," says Libertina Inaaviposa Amathila, medical doctor, leading member of Namibia's liberation movement SWAPO, and Cabinet Minister for 20 years.

Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005.

In this fifth anthology of Zimbabwean short stories from Weaver Press, 15 writers respond to the topic of writing free, and offer their thoughts about how and why they wrote as they did.

This handy book is a beginner's complete course in the Swahili language, designed especially for foreigners. The book is a result of the author's many years of teaching experience.

In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiancé across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventually made their way to Tanzania.

UNICEF estimates that Tanzania has over three million orphans. The Bethsaida Orphan Girls Secondary School seeks to help the most vulnerable of Tanzania's children. Founded by Mrs.

In Talking Tales a variety of women tell their stories in prose and poetry. They cast their nets wide, hauling in themes that celebrate as much as they castigate and mourn.

The Caruso of Colleen Bawn and Other Short Writings is a collection of short stories and poems from the Zimbabwean author John Eppel.

Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania.

One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write.

This book demonstrates the place of women's movements during a defining period of contemporary Zimbabwe.

The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of  living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996.

The traumatized woman who dies of grief, the girl whose dream to become a doctor is thwarted, the little girl who raises a vulnerable family of little children because her parents and all her relat