Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare
Chenjerai Hove. Serif Publishing, $12.99 (128pp) ISBN 978-1-897959-32-9
A new and revised edition of a Zimbabwean author's take on modern Africa. (Aug.)
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Reviewed on: 09/29/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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