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PodCastle 780: The Captive River

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By Sofia Barker, Chido Muchemwa, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, C.T. Muchemwa
| PodCastle
The Captive River By C.T. Muchemwa It was Siba’s eighteenth birthday, but instead of having a party to celebrate, she was standing by the Zambezi River in a thin, white, cotton slip, shivering despite the hot October sun. It was Commitment Day, the day she would be given to Nyami Nyami, the River God, to be his concubine. Nearby stood four Basilwizi singing a doleful song, their voices shrill in the still, stifling air. The women looked sinister in their long white robes and headscarves.
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In Search of Speculative Archives

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By Chido Muchemwa, Maita Chirasha, maita Nungu, Hekanhi Chikandamina
| Substack
Every mid-month, we have a guest writer on After Five, a voice from a historically underrepresented community or identity group in the writing, reading, publishing and SFF ecosystem. So far this year, we’ve featured Chovwe, Shingai, Tlotlo, Rafeeat, Akilah and Veronica. Today’s letter is from Chido Muchemwa, a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Canada. Her work has previously appeared in The Baltimore Review, Catapult, Canthius, Humber Literary Review, and Lolwe and other places.
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The Last of the Boys | Chido Muchemwa

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By Chido Muchemwa
| catapult.co
Chimurenga, that’s what the war was called: the struggle. And in our little village of Chinguni, struggle was all we knew. For thirteen years, Rhodesia had been at war with itself, and our once-isolated village had known no peace. Nestled in the Eastern Highlands, at the bottom of one of the shorter mountains, our village became an outpost for the guerrillas.
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