Dominic Mulaisho (1933 – 2013) was an early Zambian
writer whose works were read and appreciated by an international audience. He
was initially a teacher, then an intellectual, and politician of sorts; rising
to the position of Governor of Bank of Zambia.
Mulaisho in
his full-length novels combines glimpses of the African traditional past, with
striking modernity. For example a character in his novel, The Tongue of the Dumb,
asks: “What is pagan about African medicine?” Apart from The Tongue of the Dumb
(1971), he also published The Smoke that
Thunders (1979). He died, and was buried with fulsome dignity in 2013.
Studies
African
Literature in the Twentieth Century. By O. R. Dathorne
Zambia shall
be free (article) By James Currey
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