Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity ‹ Literary Hub
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 26, 2024
Featured image: Brandon Mushori/Wikimedia Commons
Harare, Zimbabwe
Farai is drinking Zambezi lager behind the wheel of an evergreen Acura at three o’clock in the morning. I’ve been in Harare less than a couple of hours. The sky is pitch, anticipating the day as a vision of itself rising up again. Meaning: somewhere over on the glint of the horizon there’s the gold-pink seam . . .