Series: African Language Literatures in Translation

In The Mad, originally published in Shona as Mapenzi and awarded the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Award, Mabasa’s pen runs riot, using sarcasm, humour, and a disjointed writing style that gels with its troubled and unpredictable characters. Set in the second decade of Zimbabwe’s independence, the novel paints a vivid portrait of poverty, violence, dehumanisation, and postcolonial dislocation. It doesn’t...