NoViolet Bulawayo has won the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for “We Need New Names,” her novel about a 10-year-old Zimbabwean girl who travels to the United States in search of a fresh start.

The Colonial Bastard Rhodes typeface is a post-colonial critique of both Cecil John Rhodes and the impact of colonialism in South Africa.

...Cherry Plum, a sweet purple drink that seems to be unknown outside Zimbabwe.

...blends...Baraka and Ishmael Reed with the...stream-of-consciousness of...Hunter Thompson, Terry Southern, and Tom Wolfe, tossing in a dash of Sister Souljah and Donald Goines...Asante’s...chronicle is imaginative, powerful, and electric, written with passion and conviction.

Darling promises her mother that she will come home for a visit soon, even though she knows she won’t because she doesn’t have the proper paperwork to return to America again. She misses the friends she grew up with, but at the same time feels estranged from them. One of them, Chipo, tells her on a Skype call that she can’t refer to Zimbabwe as her country anymore, since she treated it as a burning house and ran away from it instead of trying to put out the flames: “Darling, my dear, you left the house burning and you have the guts to tell me, in that stupid accent that you were not even born with, that doesn’t even suit you, that this is your country?”

"Two days after I turned 14 the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight", begins one of the most engaging novels about inter-racial love to be published this century. Lindiwe, narrator of The Boy Next Door, lives in Zimbabwe just as it has achieved independence in 1980.

...Zimbabweans have voted in favour of a new draft constitution...

This year is bound to be an important one for Zimbabwe. Four years after violent elections in 2008 led to a power sharing government, the country is finally preparing for a referendum on a draft constitution and national elections should be held by the end of the year.

More than a decade after Zimbabwe’s government began seizing sprawling white-owned commercial farms, a new fight is brewing here over who will profit from the nation’s vast bounty of platinum, chromium, nickel and diamonds.

Many African countries initially ignored the AIDS crisis, but some nations—like Uganda and Zimbabwe—were successful in providing public health information and slowing the spread of the disease...international AIDS groups didn't follow Uganda's model—and overlooked some relatively simple and inexpensive approaches proven to stem the spread of HIV.

...a clear vision of the coming of age of both individuals and families in Zimbabwe, at a time when the country was still called Rhodesia, the capitol was still named Salisbury...

...on human rights in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

Independence swept the African continent in a wave during the past half-century, leaving South Africa as the lone holdout after 1980...Africans...forged modern identities, and the era's music became a sound print of that process. Local cultures collided with influences from Europe, the U.S., the Caribbean and the Middle East to create, for example, the brassy lilt of Ghanaian high life...guitars and keyboards took on the sounds and rhythms of indigenous African instruments. Take Zimbabwe, where Thomas Mapfumo reinvented ancient religious music once played on iron-pronged thumb pianos as radio-friendly guitar pop...among the 185 songs on a new 18-disc compilation called "Africa: 50 Years of Music" are...hits that...helped build a new global awareness of Africa...