Aquilina (or The Confession Of Hatifari Maforimbo)

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Impeccably rooted in African mythology with that particular brand of Musodza magic artfully blending mystical and modern worlds </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ivor W. Hartmann</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>StoryTime Magazine</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 2008</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If there is one thing that anyone who has read Musodza's previous novel in Shona will have learnt to expect it is a fearsome monster. He holds up his imaginary monster like a mirror against the real monsters of [Zimbabwean] society- </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ednah Masanga</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Amplifying Women's Voices</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 2015</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A translation of a story about a young man's descent into pathological misogyny with a chilling hint at the supernatural...</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A young teacher Hatifari Maforimbo enters Tswakata Polic Station one morning and reports that he has just murdered his live-in girlfriend Aquilina. His lengthy statement takes us to his troubled past and his descent into what the psychiatrist describes as pathological misogyny leading to this tragic brutal conclusion. However there is a hint of something the police are not equipped to contend with something ghostly...</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Masimba Musodza</span></p>