“People thought we had turned the corner.”īut the euphoric highs soon dissipated, as Zimbabweans, including herself, continued to line up for everything: fuel, groceries, cash. There, she caught the heady post-Mugabe days, when many Zimbabweans hoped the soaring inflation, unemployment, food shortages and human rights violations that defined his rule would finally come to an end. In 2017, when Mugabe was deposed, Bulawayo was teaching creative writing at Stanford University, but decided to return home weeks later. Bulawayo is her hometown, and Zimbabwe’s second largest city. In her Ndebele language, “no” means “with,” and Violet was the name of her mother, who died when she was 18 months old. She began writing using the pen name NoViolet Bulawayo as a student. in creative writing at Cornell University. Born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele in the Tsholotsho district, in southwest Zimbabwe, Bulawayo left her home country when she was 18 to pursue degrees in the United States, including an M.F.A.
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