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    Sweet Medicine

    By Panashe Chigumadzi

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    Sweet Medicine takes place in Harare at the height of Zimbabwe’s economic woes in 2008. Tsitsi, a young woman, raised by her strict, devout Catholic mother, believes that hard work, prayer and an education will ensure a prosperous and happy future. She does well at her mission boarding school, and goes on to obtain a scholarship to attend university, but the change in the economic situation in Zimbabwe destroys the old system where hard work and a degree guaranteed a good life. Out of university, Tsitsi finds herself in a position much lower than she had set her sights on, working as a clerk in the office of the local politician, Zvobgo. With a salary that barely provides her a means to survive, she finds herself increasingly compromising her Christianvalues to negotiate ways to get ahead.Sweet Medicine is a thorough and evocative attempt at grappling with a variety of important issues in the postcolonial context: tradition and modernity; feminism and patriarchy; spiritual and political freedoms andresponsibilities; poverty and desperation; and wealth and abundance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJacana Media
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781928337140
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    Panashe Chigumadzi

    Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born novelist and essayist. Raised in South Africa, she is the author of Sweet Medicine (Blackbird Books, 2015), which won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award. She is the founding editor of Vanguard magazine, a platform for young black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa. A contributing editor to the Johannesburg Review of Books, her work has featured in publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, Transition, Chimurenga, The Washington Post and Die Ziet. These Bones Will Rise Again (The Indigo Press, June 2018) is her first book to publish in the UK.

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