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mnatale100's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Colonisation, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, War, Addiction, Genocide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Deportation, Death of parent, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, and Sexual content
Minor: Infidelity
hannahleewhite's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Rape, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Miscarriage, and Genocide
2treads's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
-What are honour and duty and country except the trinity of a live, moving hearse into which we throw conquest's history-riddled bodies- Zamani
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Tshuma has created against the backdrop of a Zimbabwe emerging from the strangling coils of colonialism, a story that centres the power of history, more specifically the power of those with the skill and opportunity to control history and how it is recorded, disseminated, and presented.
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Under the thumb of duplicitous and opportunistic Zamani, a man with no knowledge of his lineage, he insinuates and ingratiates himself into Abednego's family and proceeds to hijack a history for himself. Using his proximity and apparent usefulness and extension of support to cement himself deeper into the fabric of their family, eventually hoping to usurp the place of a missing son.
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But as much as Tshuma has used a dark period in her country's history, she uses it to trace connections between family, known and unknown. The rippling and cascading effects of state-sanctioned violence, food shortages, ethnic hatred and tensions and how the very fabric of a nation was affected.
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And with the failed attempt at reconciliation and recompense of the Commission of Inquiry, one cannot help but to wonder who is really helped by these institutions who come cloaked as a saviour, when true justice has yet to be dispensed in a history of violence that has swept across so many vulnerable communities.
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Tshuma has created against the backdrop of a Zimbabwe emerging from the strangling coils of colonialism, a story that centres the power of history, more specifically the power of those with the skill and opportunity to control history and how it is recorded, disseminated, and presented.
🇿🇼🇿🇼
Under the thumb of duplicitous and opportunistic Zamani, a man with no knowledge of his lineage, he insinuates and ingratiates himself into Abednego's family and proceeds to hijack a history for himself. Using his proximity and apparent usefulness and extension of support to cement himself deeper into the fabric of their family, eventually hoping to usurp the place of a missing son.
🇿🇼🇿🇼
But as much as Tshuma has used a dark period in her country's history, she uses it to trace connections between family, known and unknown. The rippling and cascading effects of state-sanctioned violence, food shortages, ethnic hatred and tensions and how the very fabric of a nation was affected.
🇿🇼🇿🇼
And with the failed attempt at reconciliation and recompense of the Commission of Inquiry, one cannot help but to wonder who is really helped by these institutions who come cloaked as a saviour, when true justice has yet to be dispensed in a history of violence that has swept across so many vulnerable communities.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Violence, Rape, Hate crime, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Addiction
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