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It is hard not to find humour in Zimbabwe’s politics and current state of absurdity

— Petina Gappah

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Source: On what she typically writes about in “Exclusive interview: Petina Gappah speaks about the highs and lows of her writing career, and reveals details of her next book” in the Johannesburg Review of Books (2017 Sep 4)
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