{"product_id":"nehanda-9781988449548","title":"Nehanda","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by M G Vassanji\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Nehanda, a village girl, is recognized through omens and portents as a saviour. The resulting uprising by the Africans is brutally crushed but looks forward to the war of independence that succeeded a century later. Told in lucid, poetic prose, this is a gripping story about the first meeting of a people with their colonizer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYvonne Vera (1964-2005) was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and later attended York University in Toronto, gaining her doctorate in English Literature in 1995. Her fiction has won a number of international awards, including the Tucholsky Prize from Swedish PEN (2004) and the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa (2002). Her novel \u003ci\u003eNehanda\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize (Africa, 1995), which she won two years later for \u003ci\u003eUnder the Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650911801618,"sku":"9781988449548","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8abf2950-5158-47ca-93b2-a789639751f6.jpg?v=1733296584","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nehanda-9781988449548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}