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Articles by Novuyo Tshuma
A Bird in Flight
The father held the form four ZIMSEC results several months later, reading and re-reading the neat set of A’s and B’s with great deliberateness…‘If only you were a boy,’ said the father. ‘Good job. Whoever marries you had better be rich. This is no small investment.’ Written by Novuyo Tshuma May 24, 2026 Illustration by Kingsley Chibueze / THE REPUBLIC. This story features in our latest print issue, ‘Nigeria in the World’. Buy here.
Forging Kinship with the Worlds Around Us
In an ecological creative writing class, students get up close to the shells of pteropods, a whimsical sea snail under threat. By Novuyo Tshuma, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing | This exquisite shell is home of the Pteropoda or sea butterfly, a whimsical sea snail known for its winged feet, and an object we study in CRWR 321: Dancing in the Mud: Ecological Play and the Playful Imagination. These quixotic sea angels can be found in all the world’s oceans.
Arinze Ifeakandu Believes We Should Have Functional Public Libraries.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).
Arinze Ifeakandu Believes We Should Have Functional Public Libraries.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).
DIGGING STARS | Kirkus Reviews
Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. Awards & Accolades Likes 102 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. Lily Bloom is still running a flower shop; her abusive ex-husband, Ryle Kincaid, is still a surgeon. But now they’re co-parenting a daughter, Emerson, who's almost a year old.
An Electric Novel About Space, a Poignant Story About Loss
In her new novel, "Digging Stars," Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explores science, identity and grief through a young astronomer who immigrates to America after her father dies mysteriously. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. DIGGING STARS, by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma The Digging Stars is a star cluster known by many names. It is most commonly called the Pleiades.
Book Review: ‘Digging Stars,’ by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma - The New York Times
In her new novel, “Digging Stars,” Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explores science, identity and grief through a young astronomer who immigrates to America after her father dies mysteriously. DIGGING STARS, by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma The Digging Stars is a star cluster known by many names. It is most commonly called the Pleiades. Depending on who and where you are, it’s also referred to as the Seven Sisters or isiLimela, among other things.
USA: Post-November 8, There Is Nowhere To Hide
Several correspondents of mine have suggested that it makes a nice and welcome change that something this big, this bad, this scary and this seemingly predictable is not coming out of Africa. ‘This’ and ’it’ being, of course, the all-encompassing and still evolving phenomenon of Covid-19 or coronavirus, which ROAPE has been covering in the journal and online.
A Year in Reading: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
This year has felt fragile and increasingly apocalyptic, with COVID-19 reconfiguring our relationships to the world and one another in traumatic ways. Starved of the everyday form of human contact, I found myself no longer fashionably “independent,” extroverted-introvert that I am, but, literally, isolated.
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Writing About Pain and Loss in Zimbabwe
Tsitsi Dangarembga has made a name for herself as a writer, filmmaker and activist in Zimbabwe. She gained international acclaim with her debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988), which became the first published English novel by a black woman from Zimbabwe. The BBC named it one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Carrie Callaghan lives, reads, and writes in Maryland with her husband, two children, and two floppy cats. Her short fiction has appeared in the Silk Road Review, Floodwall, the MacGuffin, the Northern Virginia Review, and elsewhere. She's the senior assignments editor for @wirobooks. Twitter at @carriecallaghan. 62 entries by Carrie Callaghan
EDITORIAL | To truly empower the poor, keep a close eye on the corrupt
EDITORIAL | To truly empower the poor, keep a close eye on the ... Ideas It is naive to expect municipal officials not to loot from the poor. They’ve been doing so for years 24 April 2020 Reading Time: 3 Minutes Article Number: 9 / 23 In 2015, a group of municipal councillors gathered at the Lichtenburg Golf Course, a favourite haunt of the town’s better-heeled, for a meeting with the owner of a debt collection company their municipality had hired to bring in some badly needed cash.
Washington Independent Review of Books
At some point in our cultural journey, history got a bad reputation. History is dusty, stale, and distant, they say. History happened before, and it’s not as vital or pulsing as what happens now. The grasping narrator of Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone would disagree, violently. Zamani is not an historian, but a young man living in the back yard of strangers in contemporary Zimbabwe.
10 Books By African Women Rewriting History
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In recent years, I have been attracted to the work of writers creating communities. Whenever I think of novels I love, I think of the groups the stories revolve around. Sometimes, these books concern themselves with a single event that was momentous in the society’s history.
Wasafiri Wonders: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
‘Don’t write what you know (boring advice). Write what you want to find out, what you want to know, what you don’t know, what you are curious about.’ Ever wondered what your favourite author’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. 1. Describe your first drafts in one sentence. Messy, curious, intuitive and filled with footnotes. 2. Tell us about your writing rituals.
A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History
10.3.2019 7:27 Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s “House of Stone” uses a young man’s search for his personal ancestry as a way of unearthing hidden aspects of his country’s violent past. Novuyo Rosa TshumaCreditCreditTribute Nyoni-Tribbaz HOUSE OF STONE By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Zamani, the narrator of Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s remarkable first novel, “House of Stone,” has a troubled relationship with the past.
A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History
Fiction March 8, 2019 HOUSE OF STONE By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Zamani, the narrator of Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s remarkable first novel, “House of Stone,” has a troubled relationship with the past. For him there is history, and then there is “hi-story,” a subtle but important distinction for a man who wants more than the incomplete, fragmentary tale his uncle passed on to him before dying.
Washington Independent Review of Books
The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court’s Assault on the Constitution by David A. Kaplan (Crown). Reviewed by Elizabeth J. Moore. “Kaplan, unfortunately, takes many pages to get to his main point, because his stellar credentials — his law degree; his tenure as legal affairs editor at Newsweek; his access to past and present justices, law clerks, and senior U.S. officials; and his diligent study of reams of primary and secondary sources — are something of a dual-edged sword.
Washington Independent Review of Books
At some point in our cultural journey, history got a bad reputation. History is dusty, stale, and distant, they say. History happened before, and it’s not as vital or pulsing as what happens now. The grasping narrator of Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone would disagree, violently. Zamani is not an historian, but a young man living in the back yard of strangers in contemporary Zimbabwe.
Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe's Contemporary Dystopia
There were things I must have known growing up but whose significance I wasn’t aware of: that, for instance, this woman I called my mother, with her Dark n Lovely perm and her Yvonne Chaka Chaka smile and her Tina Turner legs, had lived through a war and a genocide.
MIND YOUR LANGUAGE: Roots of the crisis in Cameroon
I was born in 1988, eight years after Zimbabwe’s independence from British colonial rule. I am thus considered a “Born Free” — meaning one born after the liberation war. For a long time, particularly over the last two decades and the fraught turmoil we have endured as Zimbabweans, the term has been used to denigrate those of us who were born into freedom from colonial rule and did not experience the struggles of the liberation war. Robert Mugabe, for me, has always been a figure of ambivalence.
WAR ON DRUGS: Kenya, the Forgotten Hotspot of the Heroin Trade | The Elephant
In downtown Mombasa, a nondescript office sandwiched between multistoreyed buildings is busy as usual. Every five minutes or so, gaunt youths, eyes bloodshot, walk into the tiny reception and straight away dash to the water dispenser at the far corner. They refill the only plastic glass next to the dispenser without rinsing it, and eagerly empty its contents before turning to the reception desk.
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