To those who are yet to come across her work, Yvonne Vera was a Zimbabwean novelist, an African feminist activist and an Arts Director whose life came to a tragic end in 2005 at the young age of forty. She is one of my teachers that I never met, one of the world’s most gifted writers who left a rich legacy of work behind that opens the heart so full of love it simultaneously splashes, jumps, dances.
