A books network in Zimbabwe is now a front-line virus response
May 20, 2020
3 minutes
“Thats a massive help,” texts Elvis when I send him yet another coronavirus fact sheet. “I going to send this to my folks and kinsmen.” He adds “uyilamulile,” in Ndebele, one of Zimbabwe’s 16 languages, and translates: “You have fought the battle for us.”
I am learning so much. But I am no longer – for now – sending out books to remote corners of Zimbabwe as I’ve done for the
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