Socio-economic Issues in African Literature

Socio-economic Issues in African Literature: The Case of Shona Fiction analyses how Shona fiction published between 1990 and 2006 conveys the social and economic issues in independent Zimbabwe. Using a multi-theoretical approach, the book discusses the writers' visions by focusing on a wide range of pertinent issues which include; the re-visit to the African past, the gains of the liberation struggle, the emancipation of women, continued existence of poverty among contemporary Africans, the controversial land redistribution exercise in Zimbabwe as well as the HIV and AIDS scourge.