Mukoma's Marriage and Other Stories
The book launched in Harare at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. Although I was not there to witness this birth, the first copies fell into the hands of friends Memory Chirere and Ignatius Mabasa, shown in the pictures above, standing with the book's editor, Emmanuel Makadho, on the right. This is important because Chirere and Mabasa are some of the friends who pushed me to consider publishing the Mukoma stories in a collection. Nearly all the stories in the book were originally published in American literary journals, so this puts them in one book, under one title. A Brief History of the Mukoma project The oldest story in the collection, "The Bull of Mototi", was written in 1997 in a journal book. In the original version of the story, the then nameless narrator is asked by a friend at the Students Union cafe at the University of Zimbabwe to talk about his childhood in Mazvihwa, Zvishavane, and he goes on to tell this specific story, before the two friends fini...