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384 pp. February 17, 2026, Catalyst Press. Historical Fiction. Conflict in Ethiopia and the region goes back generations. A recent novel, Ian MacKenzie’s Nothing on Earth, describes Ethiopia’s history rather romantically as “regal and violent, a saga of kingdoms rising and falling and entering into battle, highlanders storming and conquering the lowlands.” And of course the prospect of open civil war has been simmering since 2018, when Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed Ali took office.

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I am threads woven together. Specifically, threads from cotton crops grown on West African soil, spun, in the past, by the spindly hands of grandmothers. Men wove those threads on looms that required ...

ZamaShort #18

Truth commission accuses country of failing Indigenous people, amid rising tensions over land rights

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Crimson in Quietus, Eugen Bacon (Meerkat Press 978-1-96574-007-1, $18.95, 270pp, tp) September 2026. Cover by Tricia Reeks. Eugen Bacon's third novel, Crimson in Quietus, is set in the Sauútiverse, a ...

296 pp. August 28, 2026, Fly on the Wall Press. Fiction/Zimbabwe. Two sisters share a terrible secret. At first it binds them together, but eventually it tears them apart. Zaynah and Amira spend their days at their grandmother’s house, their refuge from a tumultuous home life. Ma is loving and present, two things their parents are not. But one night during Ramadan—and on subsequent nights after—their childhood innocence is shattered into a million tiny pieces, and a long shadow is cast over their lives that lasts well into their adulthood.

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324 pp. July 23, 2026, Cassava Republic Press. Fiction/Zambia. Sali has murdered her husband. She’s the only real witness to his death—it was just the two of them in the room—but their daughter was in the house and heard the gun go off, saw the blood. The narrative begins in the aftermath, when Sali appears in court charged with Kasunga’s murder, then revisits the events that led up to it through flashbacks and recollections.

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Families of people who disappeared during the Gukurahundi atrocities should use existing laws to obtain legal recognition of their missing relatives and com ...