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| Featured Book: Madhinga Bucket Boy Madhinga Bucket Boy is unlike any other memoir to come out of Africa in recent years. It is not the story of a soldier-child, a ghetto street survivor, or a white colonialist rising above (or wallowing in) an apartheid-like regime. It is a coming-of- age story written by a black African born in Rhodesia, himself a “product of excessive motorcycle speed, alcohol, and raw tribal passion between two native lovers.” Matibe carries the reader through his utterly unimaginable racist boarding school days and the torture he endured from his fellow students, to early adulthood in Independent Zimbabwe as an up-and-coming commercial farmer. After embarking on a political career that placed him directly into Robert Mugabe’s line of fire, he was evicted from his farm and given 24 hours to leave the country by the man who tried to kill him - Webster Shamu - Zimbabwe’s current Minister of Publicity and Information. Madhinga Bucket Boy ultimately reveals the story of a man who stood up for himself and others, and lost everything but his dignity and pride. With Zimbabwe in the middle of an economic meltdown, a cholera epidemic, and a Government of National Unity that may result in a failed state, Matibe’s story comes at a time when the world struggles to understand racial equality, white rule handed over to black rule, and how a country that was once the “breadbasket of Africa,” now lies in utter shambles. Among Matibe’s unforgettable characters are a farmer who doubles as an herbalist, specializing in medicinal products to enhance sexual prowess; his own parents who instilled traditional values and a love of learning in their children; and Mugabe himself, who Matibe outs as a possible closet homosexual. Madhinga Bucket Boy will have you laughing out loud at the antics and daily life in Africa, cringing at the injustices blacks endured in colonial Rhodesia, and cheering heartily for every Madhinga Bucket Boy out there who refuses to be a non-conformist and instead questions the injustices of the day. This memoir contains stories you will remember long after you’ve turned the last page. |
| Philemon Matibe was born in Zimbabwe and is an agriculturalist. He writes African folktales, is a helicopter pilot, coffee roaster and agro-business entrepreneur. He is a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Indian Association of Agricultural Professionals and The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements. Philemon was educated in Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, and is currently studying for a degree in Intelligence Studies in the USA. Philemon has two children and lives in exile in the USA. |
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