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The Legacy

The Legacy

Author(s): Tsitsi V Himunyanga- Phiri

Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1990s

This new Zambian woman writer is a leader in Zambia on issues concerned with women and development. In her first novel she puts into focus the degrading beliefs and practices of a male-dominated society. Dealing, for example, with issues of widowhood and sexual exploitation, the novel’s message is a call for a change in attitude towards the issue of inheritance. But the novel does not fall into the trap of blaming all such societal ills on culture and men; rather she enjoins women themselves to fight for their rights and not assume that a man should do everything for them.

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