Harare North by Brian Chikwava

Author:Brian Chikwava [Brian Chikwava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409076452
Publisher: Random House

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Sekai go to Zimbabwe yesterday, that's what Paul say. She brother have throw himself down from eighth-floor balcony and dead.

'Have you read the news about what is happening at your Mother's village?' he ask.

'I don't want to hear no more of this propaganda. I have read everything and I know what to believe.' I hang up on his arse.

Just because Sekai has go away, me I don't go paparapapara panicking like chicken or civilian person.

Shingi come from salad-picking and make big cry about how the work is killing him and how he hate having to get up at 4.30 in the morning every day. Aleck panic thinking that now Shingi want to stop graft, and he demand that we pay all the rent for the month ahead.

Someone is going to make fearful leaps inside this house as I turn him into one bar of soap. Me I'm not touching my savings now.

Saturday morning. We is going kak kak kak kak into our pillows again. This is funny. None of us have ever take holiday to reason proper and put Aleck and this house under microscope. Truth has always been inside the hole. Now it have come crawling out into the open without us ever looking for it.

He have spin us this jazz number before about how the house owner ask him to look after it because they go travelling but we have never reason it hard because there's too many thoughts raving and screaming inside our heads and we have to discipline them to survive.

You can never tell when things is about to change; the morning start not so bad. Shingi get letter from relative in Chipinge and he is reading it while I sit on my suitcase smoking my cigarette. Cloud of blue tobacco smoke hang silent in the air around me like time is refusing to shift. The mischief priest, Farayi, is taking shower; Aleck is still in bed. And Tsitsi, after waking up early because of crying baby, have now go back to sleep. The house is quiet.

Then Shingi go out of the house for walk because the letter make him worryful. He come back one hour later hauling bag of skunk that he pick from skip. Shingi is expect me to jump and shout but by then me and Farayi have already see the termite and nothing interest us more than this. Aleck is still in bed then and have not yet see his mail. There is this postcard card for him with Indian stamp. It is from Mirjam and Ed and they is saying how, even after two years away, they don't know when they is going to be back in England and that if Aleck want to move out of squat he should email them so they find someone they trust to take over.

Aleck is lucky boy, Farayi talk. When he come to England Aleck is one of them people that also get the visitor's visa and on arrival pull the fast style on the Immigration Department, claiming asylum.

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