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  • NovelFesoSolomon Mutswairo · 1956A Shona kingdom of long ago, invaded and enslaved, which colonial Rhodesia eventually read as an allegory.Literature
  • NovelKarikoga GumiremisevePatrick Chakaipa · 1958A hero of a Shona tale at grips with the Ndebele, between feats of war and love.Literature
  • NovelOn Trial for My CountryStanlake Samkange · 1966The colonisation of Ndebele country retried from the point of view of the vanquished.Literature
  • TaleNganoAnonymous · 1973not translated into EnglishThe first volume of Shona evening tales collected by the linguist George Fortune and his students in Salisbury.Literature
  • NovelWaiting for the RainCharles Mungoshi · 1975Three generations of a Shona family, at the moment when the educated son is about to leave.Literature
  • NovelA Son of the SoilWilson Katiyo · 1976The childhood of a Black boy in Rhodesia, from his village to the capital, under the gaze of a regime that holds him suspect.Literature
  • Short storiesThe House of HungerDambudzo Marechera · 1978The poverty and violence of a Rhodesian township, in a prose that shatters the narrative.Literature
  • PoetrySmoke and FlamesSamuel Chimsoro · 1978Verses written in a dying colony, between private life and the war of independence.Literature
  • NovelJikinyaGeoffrey Ndhlala · 1979A novel set in Zimbabwe at the beginning of colonisation, in which a settlers' child becomes the finest dancer in a Shona village.Literature
  • NovelChina manenji hachifambisiM. A. Hamutyinei · 1981not translated into EnglishA customary marriage undone by the city, in a Shona novel woven with idioms.Literature
  • Short storiesAftermathsStanley Nyamfukudza · 1983The aftermath of independence, seen from below and without fanfare.Literature
  • PoetryA Storm Is BrewingKristina Rungano · 1984The first collection of poems published by a woman in Zimbabwe, between anger, love and memories of the war.Literature
  • PoetryCountry Dawns and City LightsMusaemura Zimunya · 1985From country dawns to city lights, a poet torn between two worlds.Literature
  • NovelCrossroadsSpencer Tizora · 1985Ordinary lives swept up by the war of liberation, between love, commitment and the fear of being betrayed.Literature
  • NovelThe ContactGarikai Mutasa · 1985The war of liberation told as a series of victories for the guerrillas, against a Rhodesian army that is falling apart.Literature
  • PoetryOn the Road AgainFreedom Nyamubaya · 1986The first collection of a former fighter: the struggle for independence and its disillusions, without heroics.Literature
  • NovelBonesChenjerai Hove · 1988The armed struggle against Rhodesia seen through a farm labourer whose child has gone off to fight.Literature
  • CinemaConsequencesOlley Maruma · 1988A pregnant Zimbabwean schoolgirl, expelled from school, and everything the coming child takes from her.Cinema
  • NovelNervous ConditionsTsitsi Dangarembga · 1988A Shona peasant girl whom the missionaries' school tears away from her village, and for whom it costs as much as it gives.Literature
  • NovelHarvest of ThornsShimmer Chinodya · 1989The great novel of Zimbabwe's liberation war, seen through a young fighter and his family.Literature
  • CinemaJitMichael Raeburn · 1990A comedy set to the rhythm of jit music, in which a boy must earn the bride price for his beloved under the eye of an ancestral spirit.Cinema
  • CinemaNeriaGodwin Mawuru · 1991A widow dispossessed by her in-laws in the name of custom, in Harare after independence.Cinema
  • CinemaFlameIngrid Sinclair · 1996The war of liberation as lived by two young women fighters, and what it cost them within their own side.Cinema