Smouldering Charcoal
feb. 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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Full of political intrigue and corruption, Smouldering Charcoal illustrates the devastating injustice inflicted on society by the ruling classes in postcolonial Malawi.
Two couples – one poor and working class, the other college-educated and social risers – both live under the brutal regime of The Leader. Inside his nation, secret informants are everywhere and any form of protest will get you killed.
Following their very different perspectives, both discover that violence and oppression has invaded every level of society. It soon becomes apparent that even after overthrowing an empire, one evil can simply be replaced by another...
'Compassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it.' New Internationalist
Two couples – one poor and working class, the other college-educated and social risers – both live under the brutal regime of The Leader. Inside his nation, secret informants are everywhere and any form of protest will get you killed.
Following their very different perspectives, both discover that violence and oppression has invaded every level of society. It soon becomes apparent that even after overthrowing an empire, one evil can simply be replaced by another...
'Compassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it.' New Internationalist
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Tiyambe Zeleza is a writer, Malawian historian, and literary critic born in 1955 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (today Harare, Zimbabwe) to Malawian parents.
He earned his master's degree from the University of London and a PhD in economic history from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Zeleza has since established a career as a leading historian of Malawi history and African economics. His book, A Modern Economic History of Africa and Manufacturing African Studies and Crises, won the prestigious Noma Award in 1994.
He is the author of two collections of short stories, Night of Darkness and Other Stories (1976) and The Joys of Exile: Stories (1994) and the novel Smouldering Charcoal (1992). He currently works at Case Western Reserve University as their North Star Distinguished Professor and Associate Provost in Cleveland, Ohio, US.
He earned his master's degree from the University of London and a PhD in economic history from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Zeleza has since established a career as a leading historian of Malawi history and African economics. His book, A Modern Economic History of Africa and Manufacturing African Studies and Crises, won the prestigious Noma Award in 1994.
He is the author of two collections of short stories, Night of Darkness and Other Stories (1976) and The Joys of Exile: Stories (1994) and the novel Smouldering Charcoal (1992). He currently works at Case Western Reserve University as their North Star Distinguished Professor and Associate Provost in Cleveland, Ohio, US.
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