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  • Mount Pleasant Would Be A Rendition of Jidenna’s Boomerang

    The story begins with a feint; the narrator, Bertha, lures us into expectation of some historical recount. From there on, she puts up a trap which try as you may, you simply cannot get away from. First, she introduces us to Sara, a girl who was given to the Sultan, Njoya, for a wife at the tender age of nine, ironically as a demonstration of friendship between Njoya and paramount chief Charles Atananga. In Chapter two, three and four, we learn that we are seeing little Sara’s story through old Sara’s eyes; the narrator is a historian travelled…

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  • The Toppling Would Be A Mashup Of Mwana Washe And Eye of The Tiger

    Cynthia Marangwanda’s second novella, The Toppling, is an urban fantasy delivered with surgical precision. From the very first sentence, the narrator sets up the conflict: “My eyes fly open, and I immediately sense malevolence in the air.” Indeed, this story is in many ways about malevolence. Mamoyo wakes up from a nightmare to find the monster from her dream inside her bedroom. Not surprised, though certainly jaded by what is clearly not the first time this is happening, she gets up and quickly summons her ancestors’ help in fighting off this sprite. “Soon enough, I sense myself slipping…

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