← Petina GappahOut of Darkness, Shining Lightby Petina GappahHistorical novel of missionary and slave trader in nineteenth-century East AfricaFind on Amazon↗About the authorPetina GappahZimbabwean lawyer and novelist whose debut collection An Elegy for Easterly won the Guardian First Book Award. Her fiction satirizes Zimbabwean political life with biting wit. She is one of the most celebrated contemporary African writers.More by Petina GappahAn Elegy for EasterlyInterconnected stories of Zimbabwean women enduring poverty and displacement→The Book of Memory→Out of Darkness Shining LightHistorical novel of missionary and slave trader in nineteenth-century East Africa→
