Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity ‹ Literary Hub

Written by on February 26, 2024

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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 . . .



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