Tsitsi knows it doesn’t really matter that she’s recognised as Zvobgo’s live-in-girlfriend – he may be a controlling, misognyistic egotist, but he funds her lavish lifestyle and supports her mother and her uncle.
Brought up in a staunch Catholic household, it goes against all of Tsitsi’s beliefs to dabble in black magic, but it was Zvobgo who first introduced her to the spiritual world of the ancestors, forcing her to accompany him to visit a svikiro, or spirit medium, to help him solve his business woes. But when Tsitsi’s feels her romantic life threatened and praying has yielded no results, she finds herself at breaking point and decides to visit the n’anga Mai Matumbu.
Born in Harare Zimbabwe and brought up in SA, Panashe Chigumadzi expertly shows the harsh realities that Zimbabweans had to face during the country’s economic turmoil in 2008.
‘Sweet Medicine’ really gets to the heart of what define a depressed economy without being overly-simplistic. Vivid and compelling – this is a superb read!
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