"Even though there was no petrol, people were driving. Even though the country was experiencing hyperinflation, my mot…"

"Relaying ordinary narratives was a way to reclaim that space in the national identity for ordinary citizens and born-…"

"Fiction allows me to make up events that happened but feel emotionally true…House of Stone took me six years to write…"

"Zimbabweans and Nigerians are famous for just having PhDs PhDs, but that really opened my eyes to the importance of t…"

"And though he beat the boy, it wasn’t really the boy he wanted to beat, but, it seemed to me, himself…"

"And now, the valour of our people and the glory of the Mthwakazi Nation lives on not in any history book, or in any o…"

"I heard the stories from my father, passed down to him by his father, my grandfather, and which I shall one day pass …"

"The massacres are horrible when you read the transcripts. They speak of torture, starvation, families being forced to…"

"I remember during my writing of House of Stone, I went to therapy, and I took the book for therapy, I needed to also …"

"You know you will disappear. Like you’re causing trouble. You can’t go to the village and start asking these sorts of…"