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Exile wields the hammer of darker memories. Where the victim and the victimizer embrace, who shall intervene, and clouds of rain pour down on the sky's rejects.  Page 44 There are many homesteads which will remain intact, with children and dogs chasing after hopeless bones and fireflies. But his home will not be a home. It will be a home of graves, ancestors, shadows, broken walls leaning on tired ear. Page 45 When the small bull grow horns, it must learn to defend itself... Page 46 A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness. Page 49 [A] man who broods about his problems alone is likely to bewitch others. Talking is the medicine for troubles.  Page 50 If this is what my foot can carry me to, I choose the buttocks which make me sit near the grave of my ancestors. The lizard with a broken tail must learn to play near the cave. Page 50 An old death is better. Everyone dies when the years have left them behind. Everyone joins the ...

Title: Shadows Author: Chenjerai Hove Publishers: Heinemann (African Writers Series) Genre: Novella/Pastoral/Politics Year of Publication: 1991 Pages:111 Country: Zimbabwe For the Africa Reading Challenge Chenjerai Hove's Shadows is a story to read. In just 111 pages, Hove tells a story about love and death and the politics surrounding and leading to Zimbabwe's independence. Johana's father left his ancestral home to Gotami's land. There he became famous and rich, until the arrival of Marko. Johana walked with the boys and did the things they did. She herded the cattle and milked the cows. She found the classroom hostile. And she loved the boy with the civet cat in his mouth. But the boy seems to see through her; not talking to her after he had initially expressed his love for her. Then Marko came. A boy who had escaped poverty from his own land. The two saw within themselves a common destiny and fell in love, platonic initially but then with time ...