![]() ![]() The social media-saturated narrative, interwoven with oral storytelling techniques, makes Bulawayo feel like a pioneerĪs with We Need New Names, Bulawayo leans into exaggeration and irony to tell hard truths. ![]() In a note to the reader, Bulawayo explains that she attempted to write about Zimbabwe’s November 2017 coup and the fall of Robert Mugabe in nonfiction, but found a better form in political satire. Elements of this story will sound familiar. Hope, however, quickly vanishes and into the period of post-coup despair steps a young goat named Destiny, who returns from exile to bear witness to a land where greed, corruption and false prophets are rampant. At first there is great rejoicing and hope for change under a new ruling horse, Tuvius Delight Shasha (the former vice-president turned rival of Old Horse). After a 40-year rule, the “Old Horse” is ousted in a coup, along with his much-despised wife, a donkey named Marvellous. ![]() Inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Glory is set in the animal kingdom of Jidada. ![]()
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