The ‘magic’ of Daniel Mandishona's ‘White Gods, Black Demons’ is that ‘it feels startlingly familiar’, writes Bella Matambanadzo. Another book to add to the ‘treasure trove’ of literature on the Zimbabwean question, each portrait in Mandishona’s anthology of short stories is ‘the product of prodigious observation and research’, writes Matambanadzo. ‘What a reader will cherish is that there is a kind of fidelity about the stories that leaves you knowing it to be true', while healthy 'doses of ...read more
The ‘magic’ of Daniel Mandishona's ‘White Gods, Black Demons’ is that ‘it feels startlingly familiar’, writes Bella Matambanadzo. Another book to add to the ‘treasure trove’ of literature on the Zimbabwean question, each portrait in Mandishona’s anthology of short stories is ‘the product of prodigious observation and research’, writes Matambanadzo. ‘What a reader will cherish is that there is a kind of fidelity about the stories that leaves you knowing it to be true', while healthy 'doses of candour give breadth and wisdom, to what is a collection of comic tragedy told with tenderness'.
