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A girl named Disaster A girl named Disaster Nancy Farmer While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous… OL15875363W
Diamond boy Diamond boy Williams, Michael "When Patson's family moves to Marange region of Zimbabwe, he begins working in the mines, searching for blood diamonds, until government soldiers arrive and Patson is forced to journey to South Afri… OL19989436W
The waterbearer The waterbearer Dianne Hofmeyr When a storm capsizes their boat and kills his father, Maji, a young trader on the East Coast of Africa in the fourteenth century, is captured and taken inland to the city of Great Zimbabwe, where he… OL2741785W
Take out hunger Take out hunger Sandra Wallman Development schemes are common throughout the third world. Many fail, but the reasons for failure or success are only too often not adequately studied. In this monograph two schemes started in Basuto… OL3267940W