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Sunset in the Morning
Sunset in the Morning
Sunset in the Morning
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Sunset in the Morning is a tragic novel whose simplicity, rare imagery, idiom and accent carries the torch in modern Zimbabwean literature. In the novel Ndoda, a seasoned former guerrilla fighter, is appointed to spearhead development. Initially he is a hero, but the trappings of power transform him into a ruthless dictator who brooks no criticism. And faced with drought and AIDS, he unscrupulously exploits these calamities to enrich himself, becoming a filthy rich mogul through gold panning and selling rubies and sapphires clandestinely.

Ndodas autocratic rule is, however, fiercely opposed by David Kaseke, a local high school teacher and Rufaro, a law student. To silence them, Ndoda orders his lackey, Mandebvu, to deal with Rufaro who is stabbed twice near the heart but survives the assassination. Years later Rufaro, now a qualified attorney, is found dead in a police cell. Similarly, David is brutally tortured by the partisan police. As the sun sets on his life, Ndoda is found dead on his expensive mahogany bed, having been haunted by the ghost of a spirit medium he had previously ordered to be killed. His benevolent will, though, raises new hope for the future.
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Release dateDec 14, 2015
ISBN9781482825572
Sunset in the Morning
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Ambrose Bruce Chimbganda

Ambrose Bruce Chimbganda was born in Goromonzi, in the north-east of Zimbabwe, where he completed his primary education, and later went to Hartzell Secondary School, near Mutare. After completing his “O” and “A” levels, he went to the University of Zambia, where he obtained a B.A.Ed., with distinction. He later obtained a post-graduate diploma and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Zimbabwe, an M.Sc. in ELT Management with merit from Surrey University in the UK, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Rhodes University in South Africa. He is a professor of English Language Education, and has published many research papers in international journals on ESL learning and teaching, and is the winner of the 2007 Thomas Pringle Award of the English Academy of Southern Africa.

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