Shebeen Tales

Throughout southern Africa, shebeens are where jokes are born, news is embellished and exchanged. They are unique vantage points where men go after a day''s work, both to escape from the troubled world around them and to observe and comment on it. In Shebeen Tales, Zimbabwe''s leading author offers a view of his country not from the privileged and insulated perspective of a well-heeled visitor, bu...