Tiny Human Protection Agency

Tiny Human Protection Agency
Author: Landman, Megan
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2019-02-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0797486194

Mr Richards is a grumpy teacher who has gone too far. A group of 13 angels who call themselves The Tiny Human Protection Agency intervene to show Mr Richards the truth. He is taken through a whirlwind of emotions and visual memories as he learns more about the lives of his students. Will this journey lead him to the truth of his own childhood? Or will the angels fail him again? Tiny Human Protection Agency is a novel of interlinked children's stories which shade light on innovative and interesting ways to teach and impart knowledge to students.

Where I Belong

Where I Belong
Author: Bhoumik, Smeetha
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1779064942

Smeetha Bhoumik is an artist celebrating her deep engagement with poetry. Her main theme of work is the Universe Series, exploring the mystery, oneness and unifying energies of the universe in oils and new media, shown in national and international exhibitions.

Sword of Vengeance

Sword of Vengeance
Author: Olatubosun David
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1779243251

The eldest son of Balogun is shot dead by an unknown person suspected to be an enemy from Olofa-Ija village, while working in the farm, making a long time rivalry which seems to be in the period of ceasefire to be refreshed. In no time the evil news spreads across the whole village and the youths are ready to start a war. Their access to Sword of Vengeance (a powerful ancestral sword that used to be in the custody of Balogun) gives them more confidence to win the battle. However, only the village elders know what it means to go to war at that particular time when their tradition forbids it. Hence they have to prepare more and wait for another time since there is always another time.

Ashes

Ashes
Author: Weene, Kenneth
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1779064861

Hundreds of years have separated Wyndel Blackman and his mother from his father’s homeland in Africa. Now they have come from America to scatter his father’s Ashes. What will they learn on this journey? What will they teach the people of that distant community?

A Sky for a Foreign Bird

A Sky for a Foreign Bird
Author: Sassi, Fethi
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1779065132

A Sky for a Foreign Bird emerges as pioneering work of romance. This poet gives for his lovely readers a graphic picture of a hug and kisses never to end and never stopped!

Blooming Cactus

Blooming Cactus
Author: e. mbambo
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1779065108

"From invisibility to invincibility, Mikateko takes us through verses of despair, assault, discrimination, fear and hopelessness that girls and women encountered in a system that does not serve their interests to the life of purpose, power and freedom that girls and women continue to wedge in the face of all odds. This is one anthology that has the power to break and mend you. Mikateko has freed us all!" - Dr. Toyin Ajao (PhD), Researcher, Teacher and Storyteller

Ouafa and Thawra: About a Lover from Tunisia

Ouafa and Thawra: About a Lover from Tunisia
Author: Arturo Desimone
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1779064888

"Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous country where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet. Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring adding context to the poems (and offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original: his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology." - Jacob Silkstone, managing editor of Asymptote journal, co-founder of The Missing Slate

Zimbolicious Anthology. An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts. Volumen 6

Zimbolicious Anthology. An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts. Volumen 6
Author: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1779272596

Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts is the 6th yearly volume of Zimbabwean Literature and the arts. This year's anthology is extra-special in that we feature Zimbabwe's upcoming young visual artists who recently won or got highly recommended and exhibited their artworks through the National Art Gallery, in a competition sponsored by Morgan & Co and in association of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. These artworks varies from installation, mixed media, drawings, paintings and tackled the issue of being "Masked", resultant of Covid 19 pandemic. These artworks are accompanied by Tinashe Muchuri's illuminating critical reception essay. Chrispah Munyoro's artworks are personal and are of struggle, and Tendai Rinos Mwanaka's artworks deal with a number of issues such as US racism, the issue of Jihad terrorism, climate change and global warming. The poetry section tackles a gamut of issues from governance, spirituality, environmentalism, love, relationships, etc... and the fiction section has 4 bittersweet short stories dealing with illegal mining mob deaths (Mathew T Chikono), coming of age love story (Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe), a slice of bus travelogue (Nicole Kazembe), writing mother's body (Oscar Gwiriri). The nonfiction has two essays; Chipo Martha Bute deals with a personal journey to discovery and worthiness and Tendai Rinos Mwanaka deals with Zimbabwe's politics.

A Letter to the President

A Letter to the President
Author: Chirasha, Mbizo
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0797495495

His eagle eyes scan beyond the boundaries of his native Zimbabwe to right the crookedness of men with dubious ideals and reckless twists in lands abroad. Caressing his Lenovo mistress upon a night, he relives in recorded poesy, memories of victims of corruption and the false memoirs of looters of the land. A Letter to the President, is a collection of his experimental poetry. Here is the man on a mission and with a mission. Words are slings and rocks on his quiver. Tireless and resilient; no ugliness is too ugly to stay below his radar. His weapon of choice is his pen. Dipped in acid, as he says, no thug escapes the roast of his laser beam that put them on the spot light.

Notes from a Modern Chimurenga

Notes from a Modern Chimurenga
Author: Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1779296134

Notes from a Modern Chimurenga is an extensive collection of Zimbabwes political struggle short stories. It covers: the modern Chimurenga period from the formation of tribal trust lands (The Tortoise); the liberation wars (Zanzibar, Eating Whilst Running); the Gukurahundi massacre (Gukurahundi); the late 1990s democratic struggles pitting ZANUPF against the MDC (The List, Mbuya Chitungwiza, Operation Murambatsvina, Notes from Mai Mujurus Breast, Breaking the Silence); the individual struggle within this democratic struggle (Mushazhike, Nyadzonya); the resultant migration and exilitic stories (Limpopo Bones, Germinston 1401); the corruption (Nyakasikana, Tree of the Year); the mismanagement of the country, the beatings and killings (Leonard, Karidza, Raising A Cain again); and the continuing democratic struggles.