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A faded signboard
hung on our sagging fence
reads:

WE DIE FADED JEANS

but on the gate
instead hangs
an exhibit –
a threadbare napkin
soiled and holed
a flag of indigenous
entrepreneurship
waving our poverty
to passer-bys

Crossing Borders poets

(Zimbabwe, 2001)

Below is a selection of work by ten young Zimbabwean participants of the Crossing Borders writing project. In our accompanying article, extensive background information on this project is given by Ignatius T. Mabasa. As he writes: “The ideas reflected by these ten writers are significant because they are a departure from the norm. In part this is because they have real talent, genuinely wish to...

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When Jezebel Dies

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I

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