Sue Nyathi’s The Polygamist is a complex, multi-perspective narrative that deconstructs the life and eventual death of Jonasi Gomora, a wealthy Zimbabwean businessman whose appetite for power and women leads to a tangled web of four wives and multiple mistresses. The novel is structured through the alternating voices of the women who shared his life …
In the poignant memoir Positively Me: Daring to Live and Love Beyond HIV, Nozibele Mayaba, writing alongside acclaimed author Sue Nyathi, provides a visceral and deeply personal account of her life journey, from a childhood marked by financial struggle to her public emergence as a prominent HIV activist. The narrative is framed by the central …
Sue Nyathi’s An Angel’s Demise is a multi-generational epic that uses the life of one woman, Angel Velile Williams, as a lens through which to view the tumultuous history of Zimbabwe from the late colonial era through the liberation struggle, the horrors of Gukurahundi, and the chaotic land reform program of the early 2000s. The …
Sue Nyathi’s A Family Affair is a sprawling contemporary African saga set predominantly in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, during the early 2000s. The novel meticulously deconstructs the internal lives of the Mafu family, a household that projects a veneer of Christian perfection while harboring deep-seated secrets, trauma, and the suffocating pressures of a patriarchal society. The narrative …