Launch of 'Sweet Medicine'

WiSER invites you to the launch of  

Sweet Medicine 

by Panashe Chigumadzi

Praise for Sweet Medicine:

“Panashe Chigumadzi’s Sweet Medicine is as fresh and bracing as mountain air. It presents us with a memorable gallery of characters, mainly women, headed by the indomitable Tsitsi, who have to negotiate their way around and often confront a patriarchal society. There are choice sequences that are rendered with humour and sensitivity. Written in the tradition of a bildungsroman, the novel grants us the eyes of a young woman with which to look at a society coming to terms with itself.”

– MANDLA LANGA, AUTHOR OF THE TEXTURE OF SHADOWS

“Tsitsi, an intelligent young woman who has been raised to believe that hard work and education pays, finds herself, upon graduation, condemned to a job that barely pays. Her mother’s hope, she soon decides that she must make a plan if she is to survive. How Panashe Chigumadzi deftly deals with Tsitsi’s decision as a young woman who must make it against all odds is what makes Sweet Medicine a must-read. Through this book and Tsitsi’s story, Chigumadzi shows us how a country’s political policies, can destroy the very people it’s supposed to serve.”

– ZUKISWA WANNER, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR OF LONDON CAPE TOWN JOBURG

“Sweet Medicine is an exquisitely told story. Chigumadzi is not overwhelmed by the sensitivity and delicate nature of the Zimbabwean narrative but observes and narrates with skilful detachment to personal and public crises as they unfold.”– TINASHE MUSHAKAVANHU, THE STANDARD (Zimbabwe) “Written in the wake of Aidoo, Dangarembga and Adichie, Sweet Medicine has a voice and drive all of its own: witty, incisive and thought-provoking, it is a novelistic debut you will find hard to put down.”

– DR RANKA PRIMORAC, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON