The Crown of Ashes

 Mystery covers residents of Nchete Township and Ngwezi village. When Kagele reappears just before the sexual cleansing ritual is performed, a question is asked; can the dead rise? Only the crown of ashes on the head of the widow has the answer.

 “The key to the ashes that cover our days. The deeper the truth, the more free we are set.”

 First published in 2020

Won a Mulher Forte African Literature Award in 2020

Best Novelist