Smouldering Charcoal

Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first — poor, working-class and ill-educated — is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance. The middle-class pair become victims of the same brutal violence that the poor and powerless suffer.

• Author
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Publisher
• Heinemann Educational Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780435905835

• Genres
• africa, malawi, fiction, novels, literature

• Release date
• 1992