Kwenda And The Tortoise Comments

Kwenda was an irritable man who irritated everyone. “He has swallowed a lemon, ” the neighbours would say, and “He has no reason to be like that when he has such a beautiful daughter who can give him many children.”

But Kwenda didn’t want any of his daughter’s children to remind him of his dear wife who had been taken from him on the same day that the country had celebrated its triumphant democracy. For what reason had she been taken, Kwenda would mutter. The old order had gone. But so had his beloved Zia.
...
Read full text