Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives

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The situation in Zimbabwe represents one of the worst humanitarian emergencies today. This book asks the question: How did a country with so much promise a stellar education system, a growing middle class, a sophisticated economic infrastructure, a liberal constitution, an independent judiciary, and many of the trappings of western democracy go so wrong In their own words, the Zimbabwean people recount their experiences of losing their homes, land, livelihoods, and families as a direct result of political violence. This book includes Zimbabweans of every age, class and political conviction, from farm laborers to academics, doctors to artists, opposition leaders to ordinary Zimbabweans; men and women simply trying to survive as a once-thriving nation heads for collapse.

Author Bio

Peter Orner is the author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Esther Stories. He is also the editor of the Voice of Witness book Underground America, an oral history of undocumented people living in the U.S. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Orner is an associate professor at San Francisco State University. Annie Holmes was raised in Zimbabwe, and is now a documentary filmmaker and a writer who has published short fiction widely, both in the U.S. and Africa, as well as a memoir about Zimbabwean independence entitled Good Red.